Maude Ruth Nyc

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Maude Ruth N. Weaver - Obituary
Maude Ruth N. Weaver, age 105 of Fredericksburg, VA, formerly of Annandale, VA died on Friday, October 30, 2015. She was preceded in death by her husband, Col. John v.O. Weaver Sr, USAF (Ret), one daughter, Billie Schwarz, and three grandchildren, Robert and Stephen Gray, and Catherine Weaver. She is survived by three children, Lt Col JVO Weaver, USAF (Ret), Mary W. Mann, and Judith W. Weaver; 11 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren; and two nephews Leonard A. Derden and Fred Nyc III, and many great nieces and nephews. A Rosary (6-6:30) and visitation (6:30-8 pm) will be held Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Mullins & Thompson on Rt 1 at Rt 3 in Fredericksburg. A funeral Mass will be held at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 11:00 am, interment will be at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery. Online condolences may be sent at www.mullinsthompsonfredericksburg.com Please sign the Guestbook at www.legacy.com/washingtontimes

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From http://rosietheriveter.umw.edu/ruth-weaver-interview/
Interview with Ruth Weaver - Oral History from UMW History - December 10, 2012 by Sarah Tagg
Exerts from that interview:
Ruth Weaver was born December 1909, to a small family in Kerrville, Texas. As a child she attended primary school. After graduating from High School Ruth married Joel Watson. Subsequently remarrying twice and taking a job as a secretary for General Motors she met John van Ostrand Weaver, the love of her life. She enjoyed working at home and taking care of her family.

Note: Mrs. Weaver's daughter, Mary Mann, added the information that is italicized and in brackets after the interview took place.
[Her father, Frederick Francis Nyc (this family now goes through FFNIV) was a diplomat from Austria-Hungary, who spoke 7 languages. Assigned to Galveston, he decided to become a citizen and move to Kerrville. He got a job at the Schreiner bank. He met "Maude Ruth Burge" and married her. She was the belle of Kerrville. They married in the only church in town - a Baptist one. Fred Nyc, Jr. was born a couple years later. When a priest came to town, because she had TB, and Kerrville had a sanitorium to heal the disease. They were married in the Catholic church. "Our family has been Catholic for 400 years and it's not going to stop now!" However, Ruth's first Sunday School teacher's name was "Ophelia Butt." At the Baptist church.]

Weaver:
Well, we just knew there was a war going on and my father was from Europe and he hated to think that his country was going to war. He was from Austria, and Austria and Germany were combined sorta. Spoke the same language and at one time long years and years and years before had the same, I don't know how it was but it was connected otherwise. So anyhow, he was sorry that his country was going to war.
[He wanted to show off his family to his mother/ he only liked her at that point, and they were set to travel "home" when he found out she had died. It was 1914, and had they gone, they may well have been trapped there during the Great War.]

And he was settled over here very settled and very wound up. He had come over to see the country and he had liked it so he stayed. And he got a position in a bank and he eventually married somebody and they had the family of four children. Well, four children you might say because they took one in from another family.
[They had Fred, Jr. in 1905 (mom called him Bubba), Ruth in 1909, and Nellie Marie, in 1917.]
Oh, I had three children from one family and one from another. [T]he first time I was married I had a child so that child was accepted by the third husband. I had three marriages. The third marriage lasted [from 1941, until he died in 1979.]
Well my girlfriend and I went to school, went to a tournament one day and out of a… well, it was a boys college so to speak, so we went out there to the tournament and while we were there we met, I met, a young man and he kept pulling my hair in pig tails and he finally got my barrette and he wouldn't give it back. And then he came back and he sent it back to me by mail and he asked if he could have a date for Saturday night, to go to the movies. And my father said, "well, this will be your first date so you have to be back in as soon as the movie is over." So we were back at home by I guess it was nine or nine-thirty. Then after that I saw the young man quite often and that was it. He went back to Dallas and I stayed in Kerrville. Eventually, we decided to get married and that was it so we were married and then in the end, let's see… oh, I remember. It only lasted six years and then I met another man [Joel Watson] and it was perpetual until he died. That was it.
[Joel and Mom had just found a house in AZ and had little Billie and the Market crashed. He lost his job and couldn't keep the house. They moved into an apartment with a bedroom and small kitchen, with a shared bathroom way down the hall. It was rough. They divorced in 1932 and she moved to her mother's home in Houston. Nellie took precedence at the time. "You've had your chance. It's Nellie's turn to get an education." So Nellie went to college and mom took some stenography and secretarial classes. Her mom watched Billie, mom had to decide whether to spend ten cents on a three mile each-way, bus ride, or eat lunch. She got a good job with GMAC (General Motors) as a secretary. She stayed late one evening to type a letter, went down to the bus stop, and watched her bus driving off. "Darn!" she said. "What's the matter?" Said a man about five steps in front of her. Turning around, "I just missed my bus!" "Well, if you'll trust me, I'll drive you home, it's where I live." The next day he was there at her doorstep to take her back to work. That's how she met Van Weaver, (John van Ostrand Weaver.) Dad worked at the Executive Office Building and CIA building. He worked till he was 76. My dad wanted Sunday's quiet. They worked in the yard.]

Well, the first husband [Joel Watson] was the one I was talking about. And then the second husband, [Clive Wheelus, a Kerrville photographer] I was only married to him for a year. Because, let me see what was the reason… it's.
There was some reason that I was only married to him for a year. His mother said that I had, "honey, you have made a big mistake when you married him." She says, "you'll find out about it," and sure enough I found out that he was a total drunkard. He drunk, he drank all the time and of course I couldn't tolerate that and my brother couldn't tolerate him. He came up from [Houston] and he insisted that I go back to [Houston] and live where the family had moved to. And we, I lived there until I met… see where did I meet…
Oh, I guess it was the second husband that I knew for that year and then the third husband [John v. O. Weaver] was the one I met and he, we were married until he died. He must, we must have been married I don't know how many years. He died of a… it's… a want to say it's some kind of [Septicemia] of some things. I can't tell you but it was, it was something that he had I think inherited or something like that. I can't remember.
The First World War was when I was four years old. The second war was when I was older than that. A teenager I think.
[Van was a base commander during Korean War in Newfoundland\emdash a McAndrews AFB\emdash and we entertained Dag Hammerskjold in our home.]

Tagg: Okay, and what has been the most influential event in your life?
Weaver: What was the most influential event in my life? [Marrying Van.]
Well, I thought the first marriage was, it lasted six years and then as I said, the second marriage lasted one year and his mother said that wouldn't marriage and sure enough it wasn't because of his being a drunkard. And then the third marriage, I met him, and I don't remember how I met him now but I met him and it lasted and lasted and turned into for eventual until he died. We were just married that's all. Stayed married until he died. Death took him.

Maude married Ferris Joel Watson in 1927. (Ferris Joel Watson was born on 26 Apr 1907 in Oklahoma and died on 23 Mar 1968 in Orange Co., California.)

Maude next married Living

Maude next married Col. John Van Ostrand Weaver Sr, son of Joseph D. Weaver and Susan Michael, in 1941. (Col. John Van Ostrand Weaver Sr was born on 5 Nov 1897 in Union Township, Elkhart Co., Indiana, died on 31 Oct 1979 in Annandale, Fairfax Co., Virginia and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.)