Lucy Weidner, 72, of Silver Spring, MD, passed away on February 15, 2018 at her home.
Lucy loved literature and traveled to five continents, including eleven countries in Europe. She was one of the first to visit Cuba shortly after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. She spent a year in Spain in the 1960s and then visited sixteen countries with two Baha’i choirs. Lucy wrote poetry and loved music of all kinds. She was a talented pianist and kept a keyboard in her apartment.
Lucy was graduated from the Cranbury School, Hightstown High School, the University of Mississippi with a degree in English, Temple University with a Masters in English and Rutgers-Camden Law School. She practiced law for four years with the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office prosecuting Medicaid fraud. She then went to Taiwan to teach English at Tunghai University for eleven years.
She was predeceased by her parents, Charles Leslie and Jean Weidner, and her brother, Frederic (Fritz) Clinton Weidner. She is survived by her two brothers and their wives, Charles and Sherred Weidner of Wilmington, NC and Thomas and Joan Weidner of Cranbury, NJ, and dozens of loving nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
A gathering will be held at Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home, 11800 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20904 at 11:30am on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, a service to follow at noon and Interment immediately thereafter at Norbeck Memorial Park, 16225 Batchellors Forest Road, Olney, MD 20832.
Donations may be made to a charity of donor’s choice.
