In Loving Memory of members of the Saint Margaret of Castello Chapter,
who have gone before us, in the hope and friendship of Almighty God:
Mrs. Gwen McGarvey, O.P. (St. Mary Magdalene) (Perpetually Professed 2003)
February 5, 1951 — July 17, 2004 -- Located at Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho
Mr. James A. Schuck, O.P. (St. Thomas Aquinas) (Perpetually Professed August 14, 2004)
May 23, 1935 — June 29, 2005 -- Located at Terrace Lawn Memorial Gardens, Meridian, Idaho
Mrs. Janet O’Leary, O.P. (St. Claire) (Perpetually Professed 2007)
April 7, 1936 — June 16, 2007 -- Located At Dry Creek Cemetery, Boise, Idaho
Mrs. Kathleen Schuck, O.P. (St. Margaret of Castello) (Perpetually Professed August 14, 2004)
February 26, 1941 — June 9, 2012 (Prioress from
September 2010 to June 2012) -- Located at Terrace Lawn Memorial Gardens, Meridian, Idaho
Miss Myrna Kirkwood, O.P. (Mary Rose) (Perpetually Professed 2013)
August 20 1939 — September 26, 2014
Mrs. Dorothy Brown, O.P. (St. Margaret of Castello) (Perpetually Professed 2007)
March 27, 1943 — February 26, 2018 -- Located at Idaho State Veterans Cemetery, Boise, Idaho
Mrs. Gayle Boyer, O.P. (St. Catherine of Siena) (Perpetually Professed 2004)
November 28, 1949 — May 26, 2018
Mrs. Rozetta Hedden, O.P. (St. Ann, Mother of Mary & Imeleda Lambertina) (Perpetually Professed 2008) May 8, 1954 -- July 14, 2021
Mr. Bill Robertson, O.P. (St. Columba) (Perpetually Professed 2008)
-- May 23, 2022
Mrs. Marilyn Jeanne Wylde, O.P. (St. Louis de Monfort ) (Perpetually Professed 2013)
July 28, 1938 -- July 19, 2022 -- Located at Canyon View Cemetery, Caldwell, Idaho
Mrs. Otolia Chodynicka, O.P., (St. Theresa Lisieux) (Perpetually Professed 2014), Passed away on January 12, 2024 -- Will be interred in her native land, Poland.
Mrs. Lorette Weaver-Buffington, O.P. , Passed away on July 22, 2024 at Port St. Lucie, Florida. More information to follow.
PLEASE PRAY AN AVE FOR THE REPOSE OF THESE DOMINICAN SOULS.
OBITUARY: Lorette (Girard) Weaver, age 81, from Idaho, died in Port St. Lucie, Florida on Tuesday, April 23rd. She had been suffering with a number of ailments, mostly heart issues the past few years.
Lorette was one of the most amazing women! She fiercely loved God and was in almost constant prayer, offering her suffering for the conversion and healing of others, including those stranger-soon-be-friends she’d meet everywhere and anywhere.
She was born in British Columbia, Canada on November 24, 1942. She was always industrious, picking strawberries in the summer and trading comic books from her wagon with the neighbor kids. She left high school at 15 to embark on her career and attended secretarial school in Vancouver, BC.
She immigrated to California with her family in 1959 and began working at Knudsen Creamery. Attending daily Mass convinced her local priest that she had a vocation and she was sent to the Felician (Franciscan) Convent in Oklahoma. However, she missed the gentle ways of her family life and returned home within a year.
She married her first husband some time later. They created one of the first van conversion businesses in America and Lorette, an amazing example of someone with street smarts (probably because she really liked and connected well with people and had an amazing ability to make money) achieved success with it and a later establishing a car rental business. After moving to Idaho to be near her children she got into sales and became a top sales person for a local car dealership, and a time share company before moving into the mortgage business as a loan officer. While at her last mortgage company she began the struggle with health issues, which grew and got complicated over time, ultimately filling her days with continual pain and struggle.
Lorette put her heart and soul into every endeavor, including her search for the right religion. She tested the waters and had amazing stories of meeting well-known public figures while making her journey through various religions and ending back in her Catholic roots where she spent the past 40 years helping her family and offering up her suffering for others (she had a particular affection for other suffering/dying people). She entered the Third Order of St. Dominic in 1999 becoming a Lay Dominican member of Blessed (Nee) St. Margaret of Costello Chapter in Boise. When she moved to Florida she became a pray partner with the chapter.
Preceeding her in death were her two parents, Ernestine and Arthur Girard, brothers Roland and George, and her husband Bill Weaver. She leaves behind her sister, Germaine (Jim) Garcia, two children, Suzanne (Freddie) Venezia, and Chris Buffington, four grandchildren, 2 great granddaughters, step siblings, step children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and her first love, (beyond her lasting love of our dear Lord and Savior, of course) Bill Clemas, still in Canada. She died on the birthdate of a favorite fellow Catholic, Luisa Piccareta. Funeral arrangements are pending.