Alta Weir
Alta Jean Green Weir, 85, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, died on Thursday, May 14, 2015.
Jean was born in Dayton, and was a graduate of Rhea Central High School and Bryan College. She was proud to be a retired school teacher, having taught at Russell Brown Elementary School, Rhea County High School, Brainerd High School, and Red Bank High School. She was a devoted member of Burks United Methodist Church in Hixson.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Jeff Chaffin, her granddaughters, Bethany Chaffin and Amanda Chaffin Carleo, (Duane), her brother, Ben Green (Linda), sisters, Frieda Wieck (Keith), Ruth Henderson (Bill) and Brenda Green Lund (Pete), and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Colville Conner Weir, her son, Robert Carl Weir, her parents, William O and Edith Sparks Green, and her brothers, Paul (Barbara), Robert Thomas, and Billy Vann Green, nephew Brian Green, as well as many aunts and uncles.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Hospice of Chattanooga or Oxford Graduate School in Dayton.
The family will receive friends on Saturday, May 16, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Chattanooga Funeral Home-North Chapel.
Funeral services for Alta will be conducted at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 16, in the funeral home chapel with Reverend Amy Nutt officiating. Interment will follow to Rhea Memorial Gardens, in Dayton.
Donations can be made at www.hospiceofchattanooga.org and www.ogs.edu.
Arrangements are by the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory and Florist, 5401 Highway 153, Hixson.
Please share your thoughts and memories at www.chattanooganorthchapel.com.