Deacon John Charles Weis

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Deacon John Charles Weis

August 23, 1936 ~ March 8, 2020

I passed into the loving arms of Our Father in Heaven and the Blessed Mother on March 8, 2020, surrounded by my loving family and Deacon Manuel Trujillo at Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Layton, Utah.

I was born on August 23, 1936 in a farm house in Rosholt, Wisconsin to Edmund B. Weis and Margaret Catherine Rickert. We moved to Evanston, Wyoming in August of 1941. I went to school there; East Grade Elementary; Clark Elementary; Evanston Jr. High; and graduated from Evanston High School (“Red Devils”) in 1954.

I married the love of my life, Janet Lucille Barber, on September 7, 1956. We are the proud parents of seven children: John (Virginia), Michelle, Winston (Marcie), Jody (Michelle), James (Kathy), Wendy (Agostino), and Margaret (Ryan). We have 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; sister-in-law Annette Weis and family and sister-in-law and brother-in-law Wynn and Larry Rice and family.

I graduated from the University of Utah in 1959 and spent 40 years teaching music in Arco, Idaho; Pinedale, Wyoming; Vernal, Utah; Clearfield Job Corps; North Ogden Junior High; and Weber High School; and 10 years teaching junior high “at-risk” students in Davis County.

I was ordained a permanent deacon for the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City as one of 14 deacons in the diocese’s first class of deacons on December 26, 1976; and served my God and my fellow Christians until I was no longer able to carry out my duties.

I have a great love for our Blessed Lady Mary and I have made thousands of rosaries to be used throughout the world by missionaries to carry the message of Mary’s love to all her children.

For all of you who I leave behind, please pray for my soul and do not mourn, for I go to meet my Lord Jesus and all his heavenly saints. I leave you with the slogan that my class of deacons chose when we were ordained: “I come to serve, not to be served.”

A funeral Mass was celebrated on March 14 at Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church. Interment at a later da