Jean Elizabeth Weeks

Jean was born in Miami, FL on March 28, 1986. After graduating from Miami Palmetto Senior High School, Jean attended the University of Georgia and graduated with a degree in psychology. While in college, Jean married Rory Allen Weeks on July 28, 2007, in the then-unairconditioned upper chamber of historic Demosthenian Hall, the fourth oldest building at UGA. Jean gave birth to her and Rory’s first child, a girl, Cameron Carol Weeks, on November 30, 2007. Less than a year later, on November 20, 2008, Jean gave birth to her and Rory’s second child, a boy, Rory Allen Weeks II. While Jean and Rory stopped having children in year two, they continued to expand their adoration for each other year over year until the end. In this way, Jean and Rory’s love was like the universe: all-encompassing yet ever-increasing. And yet, Jean somehow, someway loved Rory more.

After UGA, Jean devoted herself fully to the often-thankless task of helping her husband and children succeed. The dividends of her tireless devotion are everywhere: from Cameron’s recent high-school graduation and college acceptance to Rory II’s generous, kind-hearted spirit and borderline obsessive need to read. For 19 years, Jean was the driving force behind every timely arrival, completed assignment, project finished, test aced, class passed, teacher meeting, thoughtful gift, trophy lifted, achievement unlocked, award granted, lesson learned, meal eaten, fun had, book read, and life lived. In 19 years, Jean was never the reason someone or something fell short. And she did all that with a megawatt smile on her face, grounded optimism in her voice, and boundless love in her eyes. The loss to Jean’s family and friends from Jean’s premature death is so profound that it defies elucidation despite the aid of myriad thesauruses. That is how great Jean’s life was.

Jean was preceded in death by her mother, Jean Carol Seipp.

Jean is survived by her husband, Rory Allen Weeks; her daughter, Cameron Carol Weeks; and her son, Rory Allen Weeks II. Jean is also survived by a wide circle of family—bonded by blood, marriage, friendship, and circumstance—who loved her deeply.

A memorial service to celebrate Jean’s life will be held on Saturday, June 6, 2026, at South Forsyth Memorial Chapel, 3545 Peachtree Parkway, Suwanee, GA 30024. The memorial service will begin at 1:00 p.m. Those wishing to visit with her family may do so before the service beginning at 12:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family encourages you to schedule a blood donation with the American Red Cross, redcrossblood.org, and to strongly consider specifically donating platelets. Without the timely, repeated donations of one platelet donor in California and one platelet donor in Massachusetts, Jean would not have gotten multiple platelet transfusions she needed over the last year.

For those between the ages of 18 and 35, the family encourages you to consider joining the National Marrow Donor Program (formerly Be the Match). Jean would have died years ago without the stem-cell donation of a 22-year-old woman in Germany. Signing up is easy; donation is often far simpler than people assume; and a donor’s gift can be a lifesaving (or life-extending) gift for those like Jean with no other treatment options. For more information about how you could offer not just hope but a cure to someone with blood or bone-marrow cancer, please see nmdp.org .