Diana Weaver

On July 12th, 1950, the Lord saw fit to bless the world with a beautiful baby, Diana Jean Jones, and the world would never be the same. Diana would be the 4th child out of 10 in the Jones family, and the oldest daughter. As she grew up, she would go through many adventures and life changing events. One of those adventures was meeting her future Husband, David Weaver. Even though she didn’t like him at the time and thought he was cocky and overconfident they decided to go on a date and see what happened. Well after a couple more dates she decided he wasn’t as bad as she thought, so let’s see where it goes. Well, before she knew it, they were getting married and starting their own adventure together.

After they were married David was sent over to Germany and Diana was ready to travel the world with the love of her life. While in Germany, they made many friends and memories and fell even more in love. During their time in Germany, they discovered they were expecting their first child, a little girl, but the Lord had a different plan, and they lost the baby. A couple of years later, they decided it was time to try again, and on 1/22/1974 they were blessed with another little girl Donna Mae Weaver (McCray). With their time in Germany coming to an end, it was time to move back to United States. The new family of 3 settled into the great state of Kansas and life was good, but not complete, so they decided, let’s add another Weaver to the mix and on 2/13/1976 the Lord blessed them with a Son, Donald Charles Weaver.

After a few years David and Diana decided it was time to move back closer to family and so they moved to Xenia, Ohio in November of 1979. Over the next 44 years Diana watched and protected her family as they grew up and she was always there for anything they would need. While she was watching and helping her family, she had many jobs, but the main drive of any job she took was helping people.

She worked at Xenia Christian Academy as a monitor, going through and checking to make sure everyone was doing what they should be and keeping us on track.

In her many jobs throughout the years her focus was helping people. Be it working Xenia Christian Academy, at the dry cleaners, in the kitchen at various nursing homes or home health care for patients with Alzheimer’s. One thing was remained true, in every job she always had a heart to serve and love.

Diana was also had an ornery side. She taught her kids the proper way to sneak onto a person’s property and properly Toilet Paper their trees, and if they had no trees, she would roll Paper Towels out on the yard and stick forks all over the yard to make sure it didn’t blow away. She was also the master of the art of the Jump Scare and taught her children this skill as well. A skill I am sure her children’s spouses and kids, could never truly appreciate.

Also, in her time in Xenia, she came to learn sign language and would use that skill both in the church ministry and her personal life with friends. Diana and had a small group of friends that would get together often and practice and over time she became so fluent in sign language that you would swear you would see those hands and fingers moving at the speed of light almost. She also felt it was important to teach her children at least the alphabet in sign language, this way if they were ever in a situation where they might need to help someone communicate, they had that skill. Again, another example of her thinking of others.

As time went on, Donna and Donald were able to provide her with a new adventure, the role of Grandma or Nana. This new adventure proved to be one of her most cherished roles yet. She made sure all 6 grandchildren were loved and knew it.

In addition to being a Grandma, Diana had so many other hobbies and interests. She loved to fish and would sit for hours with Charlie Bloodio on a hook waiting for that next big catfish. She loved to can fruit and vegetables in the summer, and you could always count on hearing green beans being snapped and the pressure cooker valve rattle as the process was underway. She also loved to travel and in the last few years she and David took many trips and had so many adventures and made so many together.

In the last few years of her life Dementia took away many things from her, but it never took away her love for children and others.

A special thanks to: Mary Toles for the many days and hours she helped David ensure Diana was safe and secure. Though not an easy job, Mary did it with few complaints and lots of love. Also, Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care for ensuring Diana was comfortable and cared for with friendly and loving staff until she left this earth to meet Jesus.

Diana is survived by her husband - David Charles Weaver, her 2 children Donna (Aaron) McCray, Donald (Victor Boccia) Weaver, her 6 Grandchildren - Daniel (Jamelle) McCray, Alexis (Dustin) Willingham McCray, Autumn McCray, Stephen Ferro, Benjamin Weaver, ZachAri Weaver, her Great Granddaughter - Jasmine Danielle McCray, her Sisters - Mary Toles (Jones), Melissa Jones, Cindy Jones, Patty Jones, and her Brothers - Robert Jones Jr, Daniel Jones, Gary Jones, Wes Jones

A visitation for Diana will be held Friday, October 20, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Lighthouse Baptist Church, 2040 W. 2nd. Street, Xenia, OH 45385, followed by a funeral service at 11:00 AM.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.tobias-fh.com for the Weaver family.