Vera Mae “Duck” Sumner Weaver, 88, of Ocilla, died Sunday, November 25, 2007, at Palemon Gaskins Nursing Home in Ocilla.
Funeral services will be held 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, November 28, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel in Ocilla, with Elder Otis McGee Officiating. Interment will follow in the Ocilla Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7-9 Tuesday evening at the funeral home in Ocilla.
Mrs. Weaver was born November 13, 1919 in Irwin County to the late Elex Morris and Odie Alma Blackburn Sumner. She was a homemaker and owner/operator of Duck’s Candies. Mrs. Weaver was a member of the Ocilla Primitive Baptist Church. She was an avid fisherman.
She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law: Wayne C. & Linda Weaver of Ocilla; grandchildren: Marlon Weaver, Amanda Lee Weaver, Stacy Weaver and Jennifer Fuqua; 4 great-grandchildren; as well as several nieces and nephews. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband: Albert Lee Weaver; son: Albert Lamar Weaver; great-grandson: Benjamin Weaver; 2 sisters and 4 brothers.