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John Thomas "Jack" Webb
John "Jack" Thomas Webb died at Woodland Memorial Hospital on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2005 at age 84.
Mr. Webb was born March 10, 1921 in Chester, Pa. to George and Charlotte (Smith) Webb. He had been a Yolo County resident for 27 years. He attended elementary and high school in Chester. In 1942 he entered the U.S. Army, serving in the medical corps during World War II. He was stationed in England and France and was honorably discharged in 1945. He attended the University of Missouri from 1946 to 1948, receiving a degree in journalism. After college he was the editor of the Fulton Sun-Gazette until 1966. In that year he became the managing editor of the Antioch Ledger until 1978.
Survivors include Mr. Webb's wife of 57 years, Alma Webb of Woodland; his daughter, Elizabeth DeLinn; his sons, Ron, Jim, Tom, Bob, Charles and David Webb; seven grandchildren; and his sister, Margaret Spotts.
Services: Respecting the wishes of Mr. Webb, no services are scheduled. Evergreen Funeral Service of Woodland is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Nancy Julia Webb
Nancy Julia Webb died at her home in Woodland Wednesday, Feb. 16 at age 62.
Ms. Webb was born Feb. 3, 1943 in Arkansas. She had been a Yolo County resident for nine years. She worked as a clerk-typist.
Survivors include Ms. Webb's parents, Addie Gardner-Webb and Charles Webb of Arkansas.
Services: Respecting the wishes of Ms. Webb, no services are scheduled. Inurnment will be at Woodland Cemetery. North Sacramento Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Chaney C. Webber
Chaney Clark Webber died on Jan. 8, 2000. Born on Jan. 5, 1907, in Eminence, Mo., he was 93.
He was a 20-year resident of Cheyenne, Wyo., where he worked in skilled trades including masonry, welding and automobile mechanics. He was a resident of Yolo County for 44 years and retired from his position as a custodian from UC Davis in 1969. He later worked as a custodian in private homes and Discoveries gift shop until 1993.
He was a lifetime member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Cheyenne, Wyo., joining in 1941, and a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association. He was an avid fisherman and attended the Davis Nazarene Church and First Southern Baptist Church.
He is preceded in death by his wife of 67 years, Lillie May on Sept. 27, 1994; his son, Robert Webber on Sept. 21, 1987; his daughter, Ella May Webber on Oct. 20, 1939; a grandson, Michael Altizer; a granddaughter, Karena Wells; and two great-grandsons, Mikie Roberts and Christopher Weaver.
He is survived by his nine children, Mattalene Paterson of Pioneer, Helen Scott of Concord, Mildred Altizer of Pipestem, Va., Joseph Webber of Cheyenne, Wyo., Martha King and Loretta Heath, both of Columbia Falls, Mont., Jim Webber and Sharon Wells, both of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Connie Cummings of Woodland. He is also survived by 32 grandchildren; 67 great-grandchildren; 23 great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A visitation will be from 3 to 5 p.m. today at McNary's Chapel in Woodland. A funeral service will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at McNary's Chapel. Burial will follow at the Davis Cemetery.
McNary's is handling the arrangements.
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Joan Weber (1st of 2 obituaries)
Joan Weber, 63, of Mesa, Ariz., passed away March 26, 2005 in Mesa. She was a homemaker and wife of 40 years to her husband Richard. In addition to her husband, Joan is survived by a daughter, Sandra; three sons, Michael, Patrick, and Matthew; a brother, Richard Todd and two grandchildren, Zachary and Samantha. Private services were held.
"Remember me with smiles and laughter for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all."
Joan Weber (2nd of 2 obits)
Joan Weber died in Mesa, Ariz. Saturday, March 26, 2005 at age 63.
Mrs. Weber was born June 4, 1941 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was a homemaker.
Survivors include Mrs. Weber's husband of 40 years, Richard; her daughter, Sandra; her sons, Michael, Patrick, and Matthew; her grandchildren, Zachary and Samantha and a brother, Richard Todd.
Services: Respecting the wishes of Mrs. Weber, private services were held. Mariposa Gardens Memorial Park and Funeral Care of Mesa, Ariz. assisted the family with arrangements.
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Grady Linder Webster, Jr.
Grady Linder Webster Jr., professor emeritus at UC Davis, died Oct. 27, 2005, from the effects of a stroke suffered a week earlier. He was 78 years old.
A celebration of his life will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at the University Club on campus.
Webster is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, Barbara Donahue Webster, by daughter Susan Verdi Webster, and by generations of students who became colleagues.
“Grady inspired young people with his passion and energy for seeing plants in their natural habitat and his global knowledge of vegetation, ” said Michael Barbour, a UC Davis professor of plant sciences and a colleague of Webster's for 38 years.
“We will remember him for the importance of his contributions to our knowledge of tropical and subtropical plants; his infectious, wry sense of humor; and his warm and constant support of his friends and family.”
Webster's awards and achievements included National Science Foundation, Guggenheim, Smithsonian and Rackham fellowships; the Engler Medal from the International Association for Plant Taxonomy; the Merit Award from the Botanical Society of America; and the Asa Grey Award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
He served as president of the Botanical Society of America, California Botanical Society, and American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and was director of NSF's Program for Systematic Biology.
He was elected as a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences and of the Linnaean Society of London, and appointed as a research associate at the UC Berkeley Jepson Herbarium and the Plant Resources Center of the University of Texas.
His extensive publications include major contributions to the knowledge of and relationships among plants in floras of North America, California, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Panama, as well as four books, more than 100 journal articles and more than 70 book reviews.
Webster was born on April 14, 1927, in Ada, Okla., to Irena Lois Heard and Grady Webster Sr. While he was still a child, his family built a home on 100 acres of cedar-oak woodland near Austin, Texas.
His father was a newspaper publisher, and Webster's first boyhood jobs were in the newspaper's office - experience that no doubt contributed to his lifelong loves of reading and keeping informed about world affairs.
He enrolled at Stanford University, where he was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1947. He completed a bachelor's degree in botany at the University of Texas two years later and went on to finish a Ph.D. in botany at the University of Michigan, under the supervision of Professor Rogers McVaugh.
Following his doctoral work, Webster received one of the first postdoctoral fellowships offered by the National Science Foundation. It allowed him to spend four years at Harvard University, working with Professor I.W. Bailey. There he met Barbara Anne Donahue, who was then a Ph.D. student in plant morphology. They were marriage in 1956.
In 1958, Webster accepted an assistant professorship at Purdue University, a position that allowed him to accelerate the pattern of extensive travel already begun while a student at the University of Texas. Global field research to areas of difficult access was to characterize his entire career as a plant systematist. The travel was fueled by his research focus on spurges (Euphorbiaceae), a large and complex family of flowering plants widely distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics, containing nearly 9, 000 species (almost twice the number of native plants in California).
Grady, Barbara and their 7-year-old daughter Susan moved to Davis in 1966, where he accepted an appointment as professor in the department of botany and director of the University Arboretum. Later, he also became director of the university's Tucker Herbarium.
His major teaching activities were in systematics, biogeography and pollination ecology, and in the supervision of approximately 20 doctoral students, many of whom went on to academic positions of their own on several continents.
He conducted major research expeditions to Mexico (including Baja California), the Caribbean islands, Central America, South America, Hawaii, Australasia, Pakistan, Africa and Europe, collecting more than 20, 000 plant specimens that today are deposited in major herbaria throughout the world.
Webster's extensive research and publications were one of the reasons botanists throughout the United States regularly ranked UC Davis' plant biology program in the top three in the country in the past 30 years. Although he technically retired in 1993, his mentorship of students, research activities, pace of publication and miles of travel continued undiminished. Several research papers were in-press at the time of his unexpected death.
Colleague Bruce Baldwin, a professor at UC Berkeley, recently wrote that “Grady's contributions have been truly monumental and constitute a massive body of work that rivals anything produced through the initiative and influence of a single individual in the recent history of plant systematics.”
Piero Delprete, a past graduate student, fondly recalls several trips he shared with Webster to Ecuador's remote and pristine tropical preserve, Maquipucuna.
“Grady was a walking botanical encyclopedia. It was just incredible to me how he could have accumulated so much information, ” Delprete said. “I have learned from him an exemplary professional life, human integrity, and appreciation for the beauty and diversity of nature.”
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L. B. Webster
L. B. Webster died on December 30, 1983 in Oroville following a long illness. The former Winters resident moved to Oroville in 1980.
Survivors include his wife, Betty, of the family home in Oroville; three sons, Charles and Mark Webster of Phoenix, Arizona, and Tom Webster of Palermo, California; two daughters, Gail Alberty of Reno, Nevada, and Carol Nollingsworth of Palermo; his mother and step-father, Myrtle and Carl Vincher, of Palermo; and one sister, Alice Webster of Fort Bragg.
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Jean Barbette (Thieme) Livingston Wegener
Jean Barbette (Thieme) Livingston Wegener died at her home following a battle with Myelo Dysphasia syndrome Friday, Aug. 30, 2002 at age 85.
She was born March 2, 1917 in San Francisco. She later moved to Oakland, where she graduated from Piedmont High School.
She then attended UC Berkeley, where she was a member of Delta Gamma. She was also a member of the Junior League of Oakland and helped to establish the Oakland Museum with the league.
In 1954 she moved to Atherton, where she joined the Junior League of Palo Alto. She also worked at Sunset Magazine for 28 years as a hostess, where also managed the magazine archives and subscriptions department.
She was marriage to Sydney Allen Livingston, Jr. for 41 years before his death. In 1990 she marriage Eliot "Bud" Wegener and moved to Woodland.
Eliot had been widowed and had four sons, Steve, Gary, Mark, and Scott, along with nine grandchildren.
She was a member of the Woodland Emblem Club and Holy Rosary Church. According to family members, "she loved to travel and spend her winters in the desert." "But above all, she loved her combined families, her friends, her home and her garden."
Mrs. Wegener is survived by daughters Lynne Livingston Hewitt and Sandra A Livingston-Brady of Atherton; grandchildren Gary Duane Hewitt, Renee Lynne Hewitt Welch, Heather Jean Brady, Heidi Lauren Brady and Allison Livingston Brady.
She is also survived by great grandchildren Gary Austin Hewitt, Tyler Arron Welch and Emma Nicole Welch.
A rosary is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, at Holy Rosary Catholic Church.
A mass is scheduled at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, with Fr. John Boll officiating.
Entombment is scheduled at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept 5, at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland.
Family requests donations me directed to Yolo Hospice, P.O. Box 1014, Davis 95617, or the charity of donor's choice.
Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors is assisting the family with arrangements.
