Charmine Weber Obituary

Charmine Strawman Weber

Charmaine Strawman Weber, loving wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, peacefully in her sleep at her home in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Charmaine was born Feb. 18, 1935, in Toledo, to Harold and Flossie Strawman of Risingsun. She grew up on a farm where her love for animals, gardening, and especially music, shaped her entire life.

Charmaine's mother was a very caring piano teacher and encouraged many students to go on with their music, including her daughter.

Good advice was taken and Charmaine attended one year at Bowling Green University and the next four years at Eastman school of Music in Rochester, New York.

She loved school and spent many musical hours honoring her skills on piano, playing the violin in orchestras, playing piano for children's dance classes, and accompanying students. One of those violin students (her future husband) accompanied her for the next 65 years of her life. In those many years, Charmaine would teach and work with hundreds of children to play violin with symphonies in Duluth, Minnesota, and Tucson, Arizona, and after moving to Los Alamos, orchestras in Santa Fe, Roswell, Taos, Los Alamos, and several other ensembles in New Mexico.

One of these ensembles, formed in Los Alamos, "The Prima Trio," played many concerts in Los Alamos, toured in Texas, and flew to Ohio for Charmaine's 60th wedding anniversary. She, her husband Tom, and local friend and cellist, David Watkins, performed many favorite works for this very special event. Pleasing all that attended, the greatest compliment came from her parents when they said "We couldn't be prouder."

Charmaine never forgot her farm upbringing, passing it on to her two children, Richard and Jennice. The backyard became a mini farmyard for many ducks, geese, turkeys, and a chicken or two. Richard loved chasing and naming many of them, and sister Jennice loved planting seeds and raising vegetables which she still does today, raising lots of pineapples in Florida.

She is survived by her husband, Tom Weber; children, Richard and Jennice Weber Meehan (Robert); their three children, Jeremy (Melanie), Taylor, and Seth; siblings, Lawrence Strawman (Karen) and Marilyn Strawman Phillips (Paul); cousin, John Strawman (Debbie); and many nephews, nieces, friends, and music students.

Charmaine was preceded in death by her parents, Harold and Flossie Strawman; and younger brother, Robert.

Arrangements were handled by Rivera Family Funeral Home in Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87544.

Please feel encouraged to leave pictures, messages, and stories about Charmaine's life for the family to cherish at http://www.riverafamilyfuneralhome.com.

The family requests to please donate to your favorite charity in Charmaine's memory.