Abe J. Weiner

Abe J. Weiner, 82, of Temple, died early Thursday, December 11, 2008 in hospice care at Scott and White Hospital after a brief hospitalization. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 pm, Saturday at Moffat Cemetery with Rev. Hubert Austin officiating. Scanio-Harper Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Weiner was born January 13, 1926, in Galveston to Isaac and Freida Weiner, the youngest of five children. He attended school in Galveston where he graduated from Ball High School. After a semester at the University of Texas, he celebrated his 18th birthday in 1944 and joined the Navy, serving as a pharmacist's mate on a submarine tender stationed at Guam and Saipan. After his discharge in 1946, he returned to the university at Austin and majored in journalism. He was a staffer on the Daily Texan for four years, serving a stint as sports editor and was a member of Sigma Delta Chi. After jobs on newspapers in Athens, Midland, and San Antonio, he returned to Austin for six years as assistant to UT sports information director Wilbur Evans. In 1958 he went to the sports desk of the San Antonio Express and later on the Houston Post, where his oldest brother, Sam Weiner was business editor. He moved to Denver in late 1962 to join the Denver Post. He married Phyllis Allena Nibling, a fellow Post staff writer, on November 22, 1963. They made their home in Littleton, Colorado, where he was active in the Littleton Soccer Association while his sons were growing up. He took early retirement from the Post in 1982 to accept an editorial position at the Temple Telegram. One of his duties was as producer of the Telegram's annual Pioneer Day celebration, which he continued to do for almost ten years after his retirement in 1991. He was an avid salt water fisherman and he and his wife spent much of his retirement in Galveston and Port Aransas. He is survived by his wife; two sons, Alan Weiner of Seattle, Washington, and Larry Weiner of Garland; two brothers, Sam and William Weiner, both of Houston; one sister, Trudi Brickman of Houston; a granddaughter and a grandson, both of Garland. His parents and a sister, Sadye Kaiser, preceded him in death. Instead of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Martha's Kitchen, 401 West Avenue G, Temple, TX 76504 or the American Heart Association.