JEROLD Q. WEAVER, LTJG, USN

Jerold Weaver '53

Date of birth: September 8, 1931

Date of death: June 27, 1956

Age: 24

Lucky Bag

From the 1953 Lucky Bag:

JEROLD QUIGLEY WEAVER

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Jerry came very near hailing from the Ozarks, his home town being Fort Smith, Arkansas. As the name implied, "Clem" had a knack for "pulling strings." This combined with an above average interest in tennis, plus a definite aversion to chasing steeples and crossing country, made him a natural for the job as manager for the Navy racket men. His extra-curricular activities, punctuated with a brief tour of duty on the LUCKY BAG staff, were concerned mostly with how to make the most out of a weekend. He always had a vicious hankerin' for brew and a desire for indoor sports other than the ones strictly associated with athletics.

JEROLD QUIGLEY WEAVER

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Jerry came very near hailing from the Ozarks, his home town being Fort Smith, Arkansas. As the name implied, "Clem" had a knack for "pulling strings." This combined with an above average interest in tennis, plus a definite aversion to chasing steeples and crossing country, made him a natural for the job as manager for the Navy racket men. His extra-curricular activities, punctuated with a brief tour of duty on the LUCKY BAG staff, were concerned mostly with how to make the most out of a weekend. He always had a vicious hankerin' for brew and a desire for indoor sports other than the ones strictly associated with athletics.

Loss

Jerold was lost on June 27, 1956 when his "blazing Navy jet fighter plane crashed into the Chief Petty Officers' Club at Miramar Naval Air Station." He was piloting a F7U Cutlass with Attack Squadron (VA) 116.

Remembrances

From Find A Grave:

From his boyhood best friend Joseph Irwin: He is well remembered by his High School class of 1948 as a terrific piano player who would always draw a crowd when he would play "Flight of the Bumblebee " by ear. A squared-away, 4.0 x 4.0 guy that we knew he would go far in anything he would engage in

Other Information

From researcher Kathy Franz:

“Jerry” graduated from Fort Smith Senior High School in 1948. Junior Council, Senior Council, Student Council, Usher, Laboratory Assistant, Latin Club President. Class Prophecy: Jerry Weaver, greatest comedian since Bob Hope, recently employed Charlie “Trigonometry” Jones to make out his income tax for 1958. His friend Joe Irwin was voted the “Wittiest Boy.”

He was survived by his parents and at least one brother, William. He is buried in Arkansas.

Photographs

From his high school yearbook
From his high school yearbook

Class of 1953

Jerold is one of 62 members of the Class of 1953 on Virtual Memorial Hall.

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