Barbour (Peggy) Johnson Weaver

Barbour (Peggy) Johnson Weaver, 91, died at Havenwood Manor, Lexington, Virginia, on Friday, February 12, 2016. Born June 6, 1924 in the town of Culpeper, she was the daughter of Robert Ashby Johnson and Esther Apperson Johnson. She graduated from Culpeper High School in 1942 and joined the accounting department of the American Silk Mills in Orange, Virginia. At the end of WWII, while employed at the National Farm Loan Association in Warrenton, she met and married William B. Weaver, Jr., dairyman and Thoroughbred breeder in Fauquier, Prince William, and Rappahannock Counties.

While living in Nokesville, she kept books for McMichael's Service Center and for her husband's farming business. She was also directly involved in the farming effort and was tireless in her support of the family's Thoroughbred breeding, showing, and sales operation.

In 1989, she was invited to participate in the Dwight D. Eisenhower People-to-People exchange program. She toured horse businesses in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the USSR as a representative of family owned and operated horse breeding farms in the US.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and her sister, Anne Johnson Wood. Surviving are her daughter, Delia Weaver Hoeffel and her son-in-law, Kenneth M. Hoeffel, Jr. of Rockbridge Baths, Virginia, and her granddaughter, Delia Teel Hoeffel of Atlanta, Georgia.

Graveside services at the Sperryville Cemetery are being planned for an undetermined date in the Spring. Memorial contributions can be made to the Rockbridge SPCA, 10 Animal Place, Lexington, VA 24450.