Elizabeth P. Weaver | Seamstress, 104
Born in 1905 in Griffin, Ga., Mrs. Weaver was a member of a farming family that raised cotton, vegetables, and livestock on an 88-acre homestead.
Mrs. Weaver received her early education at Broad Street Elementary School and graduated from Cabin Creek High School, both in Griffin.
After her family moved to Philadelphia in 1926, she met Clinton H. Weaver. The two were married 49 years.
They had four children: Wesley, Elizabeth, William and Kenneth. The family joined Beulah Baptist Church on Spruce Street, where her husband served as deacon and Mrs. Weaver served as a member of the deaconess board. She sang in the church choir.
For many years, Mrs. Weaver worked as a seamstress at the dry-cleaning and tailor shop the family owned in Southwest Philadelphia. She moved to the West Oak Lane section of the city in 1961 and joined the Germantown Evangelical Church.
She liked to read the Bible, and would quote from it when asked for advice, her family said. From 1999 to 2006, Mrs. Weaver lived with her son, Kenneth, in Blackwood. Her health was excellent until she fell in 2006, breaking a hip, her son said.
Her husband died in 1976, and a son and daughter preceded her in death. Mrs. Weaver is survived by sons Wesley and Kenneth, 17 grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.
A viewing will be at 9 a.m. today with services at 11 a.m. at Winslow Baptist Church, 642 Sicklerville Rd. Sicklerville, N.J. Interment will be in Rolling Green Memorial Park in West Chester.




