Edith Viola Weirs

EDITH - origin (Anglo-Saxon) meaning (Rich Gift) Edith Viola Weirs so may of our lives were blessed with the "Rich Gift" of knowing Edith Weirs. She was "Mama Edith" to many and "Grandma" to others. This anointed woman of God helped raise so many children, instructed so many young women how to be good wives and mothers and so many young men how to be goo husbands and fathers. She was a mother to the motherless. She opened her heart ad her home to countless people, from the runaway wife to the runaway pastor. Whether Bishop L.C. Grant just wanted a good old pig feet dinner or Dr. Ruby Prideaux just needed a "staycation" to be pampered, she was available. Her sweet spirit was present until the end, so much so that God's people in the hospital, the nursing home, and the home care workers were calling her Mom or Mama. Mother Edith Viola Weirs (nee Jones), the daughter of the late Melvin Jones and Ezell (nee Grey) Jones Dennis was born in Elkhorn, West Virginia June 6, 1931. She departed this life Wednesday, November 23, 2016. She was preceded in death by her loving husband George E. Weirs, her daughter Barbara A. Weirs and two siblings Sarah Saunders (nee Jones) and Moses Jones. Edith received her elementary education in West Virginia. Due t o a long childhood illness she didi not complete her education but began doing domestic work at an early age alongside her mother. At the age of 18 Edith moved to Baltimore with her oldest sister Sarah. She worked for a brief time in the kitchen of a downtown hotel and eventually got a job at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the housekeeping department. After she got married and started having children Edith became a stay at home mom for several years doing occasional "day work" for $35 and car fare to help her husband out. When her baby boy started going to school full time she reentered the workforce in housekeeping at Lutheran Hospital and eventually retired from Liberty Medical . Mother Weirs accepted the Lord at an early age but she backslid. God being married to the backslider gave her another chance and later in life, after her husband died, she rededicated herself to God and he took her back in the fold. She was a member of the Trinity Apostolic Faith Holiness Church, Inc. under the pastorate of the late Bishop Lois Cleveland Grant and Bishop Ivan L. Grant. While at Trinity she was faithfully and quietly served, doing what her hands found to do. She later joined the Blessed Trinity Church of Deliverance. There she served under the pastorate of the Late Dr. Ruby A. Prideaux and Elder Lawrence E. Holland. In 2004 Edith was ordained as the Mother of Blessed Trinity Church of Deliverance. This was the public acknowledgement of the anointing that God had already put on her life. She leaves to cherish: her children Reginald Jones (Judy), Janice Holland ( Lawrence), Sylvia Weirs- Gilmore (Jamie), Chris Weirs (Susan); grandchildren Sophia Williams (nee Jones), Reginald Jr., Edward Weirs, Candice, Ashley and Paul Holland, George and Lily Weirs; Three great-grandchildren Reginald III, Brianna and Caitlin Williams, siblings Melvin Jones (Shirley), Clayton Jones, Lena Fields, Betty Conway; godchildren, nieces, nephews, and a host of family and friends.

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Edith Viola Weirs

June 6, 1931 - November 23, 2016