Marian Irene Weber

Marian Tyrrell Weber, age 88, Clark, widow of Daniel Weber, died in the Prairie Lakes Hospital at Watertown on Wednesday evening, August 31, 2011 after a brief illness due to cancer. Funeral services will be Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 1PM in the Peace Lutheran Church at Clark with The Reverend Mark Guthmiller officiating. Burial will be in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery at Yale. The organist will be Barb Wegman with congregational singing. They will sing "Jesus Loves Me", "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Blessed Assurance". Casketbearers will be Jared Gross, Darin Hay, Kenny Plucker, Rick Hovde, Dustin and Shane Weber. Visitation will be on Friday from 5-7PM at the Furness Funeral Home in Clark and after noon at the Church on Saturday. She was born Marian Irene Tyrrell on August 30, 1923 on a farm NE of Yale, the daughter of Phillip E. and Rose Ida (Feicke) Tyrrell. She attended the same country school as her parents, the Tyrrell School, through the 8th grade. At the age of 14 her mother died and she became a homemaker for her sister, brother and dad. On February 14, 1943 she married Daniel Weber in the Trinity Lutheran Church at Yale. To this union four children were born. The couple farmed in the Yale area until they moved to Tulare in 1950 and lived there until moving to Raymond in 1958. Mr. Weber died in 1975. Marian was a member of the church in Yale until transferring her membership to the Messiah Lutheran Church in Redfield and then later transferring her membership to the Bethlehem Lutheran Church at Raymond. She later moved into Clark and became a member of Peace Lutheran Church in 1990. Her Church life was very important to her, teaching Sunday School in each of the churches she attended, holding several offices in the Ladies Aid groups and did various other Church duties. Marian served on the board and worked as a volunteer for the GSI Thrift Store in Watertown for some 15 years as well. She will long be remembered for her kindness and her generosity in giving to people, loving her children, grand and great-grandchildren and her friends and neighbors. Some of her hobbies included playing cards and working cross-word puzzles. Preceding her in death were her parents, a son, Jeff Weber, a son-in-law, Dominic "Doc" Zaccarelli, brothers, Earl & Maynard "Sandy" Tyrrell, sisters, Edna Tyrrell, Muriel Peterson, & Josephine (Jack) Gaughran and a brother-in-law, Neil Early. Survivors include her children, Jerrilynn (Larry) Herfurtner of Fredericksburg, VA, Marian Kathryn (John) Bynaker of Lovettsville, VA, Danny (Kathy) Weber of Raymond, a daughter-in-law, Johny Weber of Timber Lake and 2 special nieces, Kay Gross of Carpenter and Faye (Kenny) Hay of Parker, both of whom the Webers helped raise. She also leaves 10 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren, a sister, Lois Early of Mesa, AZ and several nieces and nephews. Memorials would be preferred to the Peace Lutheran Church at Clark. For further information please go to www.furnessfuneralhome.com