Linda Lou Weber passed away on July 19th, 2025, at the age of 87.
Her life was centered on her family and her faith. Linda was born in Burnips, MI and lived there her entire life. She went to Hudsonville High School and worked at Michigan Bell as an accountant after graduating. She married Jim Weber in 1959 and stopped working to be a stay-at-home mom after their daughter, Jamie, was born. Jeff, Shari and Shawn soon followed. Linda and her siblings’ families spent so much time together and took such great care of each other that their kids almost felt each of the aunts was a surrogate mom. A favorite pastime of ‘the aunts’ (and the entire Alward/Weber family) was playing the card game, pedro, and Linda was a lifelong fierce competitor. Linda’s love of family was instilled in her by her own parents and permeated every phase of her life.
When Jim and Linda’s youngest started kindergarten at Burnips Elementary, Linda started working at the school. She continued to work at Hamilton Community Schools as a teacher’s aide and reading tutor until she retired. Linda loved teaching kids to read and her students knew she cared about them, not just their reading scores.
The foundation underpinning all of Linda’s life was her faith. She was raised in the Burnips United Methodist Church and lived the values she learned in that church through service. She was a Sunday school teacher, a Youth group leader, led Bible Study and Prayer group and was an active member in the church’s Women’s Group. She also regularly volunteered at Camp Sunshine, a program for kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities, which resonated for Linda because of her sister Karen who passed away at the age of 16. Acceptance and unconditional love for others were core values Linda put into action throughout her life, directly stemming from her faith.
Linda was preceded in death by her husband, James Weber, on May 26th, 2025.
She is survived by her children, Jamie and Jim Bussis, Jeff and Susie Weber, Shari Weber, and Shawn and Tara Weber, 16 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren; she is also survived by her sister-in-law Marie Alward and her best-friend-since-high-school, Joyce Dalman.
Visitation will be 10:30-Noon on Friday, July 25, 2025, at Yntema Funeral Home, 251 South State Street, Zeeland.
The funeral service will be at 3:00 pm also on Friday, July 25 at Burnips United Methodist Church, 4241 30th Street, Burnips.
Interment will be in Salem Township Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers – and in keeping with Linda’s values – memorial contributions may be given to either The Literacy Center of West Michigan (where one of her granddaughters, Cara, works) https://literacycenterwm.org/give or by mail to 207 Fulton Street East, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 or Camp Sunshine https://www.campsunshinemichigan.org/donate or by mail to 291 W. Lakewood Blvd.,
Suite G, Holland, MI 49424
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