Jack Weidman

Jack Leroy Weidman, 58, died Sept. 25, 2020 in Bainville.

He was born in Aberdeen, Wash., on Jan. 14, 1962, the third of four children to Jack Leroy Weidman Sr. and Leona (Thompson) Weidman.

He graduated from North Beach High School in Moclips, Wash., in 1980 where he played football for all four years. Those years left him with a lifelong love of the game. Anyone in a conversation with him for very long would learn of his keen interest.

After high school, he served in the Army receiving an honorable discharge in 1986.

He went on to attend Grays Harbor College where he completed a course of training in watershed restoration.

That training led him to his first of two moves to Alaska. It was during his second time in Alaska that he met Lotus de Witt. They married June 18, 1990, in Washington.

They moved back to Washington where he completed an apprenticeship program to become a journeyman traffic control painter. He spoke with fondness of his time as a member of the Western Washington Painters Union.

They traveled several times to Japan, Hong Kong and to Lotus’s birth country of Thailand to visit family.

Eventually, they moved to Bainville during the Bakken oil boom where he found work and friends.

His conversations with people always began and ended with a smile and a bless you. His ever-present personal relationship with Jesus and his love for him was obvious in his interactions with all those he encountered.

He was preceded in death by his father, Jack Leroy Weidman; and his oldest sister, Peggy (Weidman) Narec.

He is survived by his wife, Lotus Weidman of Bainville; mother, Leona (Thompson) Weidman; and sisters, Darlene (Weidman) Williamson and Terri (Weidman) Sample of Washington.