Ron sent his grandson Jon a great message with lots of family photos and history!

Jon as a teenager

Ron’s Grandfather - My grandfather was a carpenter by trade. He also road horses to check the fences of a large ranch near San Francisco, and this was in 1909, and he told us stories of how the ground looked like the swells of the ocean when he was on his horse riding the fence when the great earthquake struck.
 

Your great grandma Weaver at a young age.  I think she’s pregnant with one of us kids.

Your great grandfather, Richard Edwin Weaver, and my brother Lonnie, enjoying the California surf.

Your great great grand parents,
Edwin Otto Weaver and Grace Bishop Weaver

Weaver family.  Left to right, my Dad, Richard Edwin Weaver, my Grandpa, my Aunt Ruth, my Grandma, and my Aunt Virginia.

Before we came along though, she and my dad would go out in the desert to shoot jackrabbits.  They were pretty good at it too, I’d say.

Lonnie

This is your great great grand parents holding one if my children, but I don’t know if it’s your dad, or your Aunt Cindy. It’s most likely Cindy. This photo was taken at their home in Encinitas, California.

Your great grandmother before she had any of us kids I think.
Virginia Mae [Riley] Weaver

The Weaver family again.  Doesn’t this look a little like “The Little Rascals”

Your Great grandma Weaver, basting our Thanksgiving turkey.
This is probably the late 1950s.

This is me, in Yokohama, Japan, taking a shower with your father (Randal Lee Weaver). He was born in Yokosuka, Japan. I was in the U. S. Navy at the time, and spent three years there in VQ1, what we called a cloak and dagger squadron because of our mission. I was the radio operator on our aircraft which performed Electronic Countermeasures Missions.

Great grandma Weaver. She was a great mom. After my dad died of a heart attack at the young age of 41 (1951), she picked up the reins and finished raising us kids like a trooper.

Me, with your dad with his sister Cindy,
and your Grandma Weaver (Diane Marie [Dernbach] Weaver)

Your Dad, several years later, wearing my Navy hat and giving a rather good military salute.

This is your Grandpa (on the left) on a bicycle ride in Boulder, CO to Estes Park, with my friend John Cowley. We worked at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View. John was a mathematician who worked on calculating trajectories and orbits for spacecraft launched by NASA.

Me in my Navy whites.  I look like the Good Humor Man.  ;o)  Ice Cream anyone?

The back yard was large, and we had a wonderful hot tub and deck.  We hired a landscape architect to help us create a Japanese Garden theme.

At maturity it was more like a Japanese Jungle.  We didn’t understand the fine art of pruning things back to maintain the clean balanced look of a real Japanese Garden.

Your grandpa with your dad, back in Yokohama, Japan.

Your Dad, chowing down on a Boy Scout camping trip.  We went on lots of those camping trips as he was growing up.  I was an Assistant Scout Master in his Troop.

Grandpa Ron and Pete in Maui, Hawaii on vacation in 1983.

Our side deck was huge, and we had all the plants dripped for automatic watering.

I loved this circular couch in our living room.  It really required a large space, and our town home provided that very well.