Obituary and Funeral Service

This is the obituary my sister and I wrote and ran in the Panama City News-Herald for our mother. It will appear again NEXT FRIDAY. I’m taking this opportunity to remind folks that the funeral service is NOT TOMORROW, July 23, but NEXT SATURDAY, July 30th, eleven o’clock in the morning, at Holy Nativity Episcopal Church. A light lunch will follow in Battin Hall.

Long time Panama City resident Louise Gentry Weller died Sunday, July 17, 2011 at Community Health & Rehabilitation Center, Panama City, Florida at the age of 99. Born May 7, 1912 in Bluff Springs, Florida to Mamie McClammy Gentry and Walter Henry Gentry, she grew up and attended schools in Pensacola. During her years at Pensacola High School she met Thomas Carroll Weller; they married in 1934 and moved to Panama City, where she lived the rest of her life. She was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and later with her family a charter member of Holy Nativity Episcopal Church. 

Besides family, her joys in life included cooking, sewing, knitting, crocheting, doll-making, quilting, and gardening; and in years past she had been an active member of the Panama City Garden Club. Predeceased by her husband, parents, brothers Wilbur Gentry and Charles Gentry, and sister Edna Gentry Abney, she is survived by her sister Mildred Gentry Malone of Pensacola; son Thomas Carroll Weller, Jr. and wife Linda of Panama City, daughter Gina Louise Weller Webb of Panama City, son Walter Gentry Weller and wife Betty of Denham Springs, Louisiana, by grandchildren Malinda Louise Weller Kelly, Joseph Peters Weller, Cathlyn Weller Spinks (Jeremy), John Carroll Thompson (Joy), Teresa Thompson Goff (Kinney), Andrea Webb Workman, Susanna Webb Bergenroth (Brandon), Leslie Foster, Walter Gentry Weller, Jr. (Ramona), David Michael Weller (Toni), Donna Weller Watson; by 21 great grandchildren, one great-great grandchild, and many nephews and nieces. 

The family are most grateful for the attention and kindnesses of all the folks at Community Health and Rehabilitation Center, and those at Covenant Hospice, all of whom were so supportive and helpful the last few weeks. 

For the convenience of family members coming from various places out of state, the service will be delayed until eleven o’clock Saturday morning, July 30th, 2011 at Holy Nativity Episcopal Church. Family ask that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Holy Nativity School Foundation, Student Financial Aid, 205 Hamilton Avenue, Panama City, Florida 32401.

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