We are deeply saddened to announce that long time member and Lantern editor Robert Weaver passed away at Grace Hospital on Saturday, February 19.
Robert was born and raised in the Kitchener-Waterloo area of Southern Ontario. He moved to Winnipeg in the 70’s to study landscape architecture at the University of Manitoba, one of the few universities in the country offering that course at the time. He remained in Winnipeg and operated a successful landscape architecture business, Weaver Flowers. Some of his corporate clients included Burger King and MacDonald’s.
Robert was an avid O scale model railroader, the only one in the club who pursued that branch of the hobby. He was a frequent displayer at the WMRC spring open houses and at the Manitoba Mega Train Show.
Robert was the iron man of newsletter publications. He became editor of The Lantern in 2009, and remained the editor for an incredible 13 years, which is a club record. Most of the past editors of The Lantern served for only a three year term. Robert tackled this task with unprecedented zeal and diligence. Under his editorship, The Lantern became a world class publication.
Robert hit his stride when The Lantern went from print to digital. Unencumbered by the restraints of a limited page count, he expanded the publication and its content, sometimes going to as much has 38 pages.
Robert had been plagued with various health problems over the years. Although he had fought his health battles for a long time with amazing determination and tenacity, he recently resigned editorship of The Lantern due to his declining health. No replacement has been found.
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