Mildred E. Weyer, 86, Goff, died Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at the Hiawatha Hospital. Mildred was born October 3, 1920 at Corning, KS, the daughter of John and Maude Leffingwell Nightingale. She graduated from Corning Rural High School in 1938. She completed Normal Teacher Training and taught grades one through eight for two years in a rural Nemaha County School. She then worked for the First National Bank in Centralia and later for the First National Bank of Goff for 32 years, retiring as Cashier in 1985. She married George Lyle Weyer on November 25, 1945, after his return from World War II. They lived in Holton and Centralia before moving to Goff in 1949. To this union twins, Marlin and Melody, were born on July 2, 1946. Lyle died on June 22, 1994. She was also preceded in death by four brothers, Harold, Charles, Lloyd and Virgil Nightingale. Mildred was a loving and generous wife, mother and grandmother whose family always came first. She was very proud of their accomplishments. She was a member of the Goff United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Federated Women's Club of Goff, a Homemaker Demonstration Unit and the Eastern Star. She was City Clerk of Goff for many years, and was treasurer for her church, the Senior Citizens Center, Nemaha County American Cancer Society, and several other clubs. She was a Rustler's 4-H Club Foods Leader and a Cub Scout Den Mother. For the last three and a half years she was a resident of Crestview Manor at Seneca. Survivors include her twins, Marlin Ray Weyer, Overland Park, Melody Kay Forbes and her husband, Tom, Topeka; three grandchildren, Cory Forbes, and his wife Susanne, and Melissa Forbes, all of Ann Arbor MI; Jennifer Lents, and her husband, Les, Kansas City, MO; two great grandchildren, Monica Paige Lents, Kansas City, MO, and Owen Lyle Forbes, Ann Arbor, MI; a sister-in-law, Dolores Clickner, Kalamazoo, MI; nephews, nieces, and friend and caregiver, Patti Dean, Goff. A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, at Goff United Methodist Church in Goff. Burial will be at the Centralia Cemetery.
Family Members
Parents
John Charles Nightingale
1875–1930
Maude G Leffingwell Nightingale
1880–1962
Spouse
George Lyle Weyer*
1921–1994
Siblings
Harold Raymond Nightingale*
1901–1971
Charles Curtis Nightingale*
1903–1946
Lloyd Benjamin Nightingale*
1912–1973
Virgil E Nightingale*
1917–1972
