Obituary of Stanley A. Weeks

Stanley A. Weeks, 97, of 52 Lakeview Ave. died Thursday January 7, 2010, in Heritage Village Rehab and Skilled Nursing. A native of Jamestown, he was born January 28, 1912, the son of James L. and Louise Ross Weeks. Upon the premature death of his parents, he made his home with his uncle and aunt, the late Emmet H. and Anna B. Ross. Mr. Weeks was a 1930 graduate of Jamestown High School, attended Colgate University, Cornell University Law School and graduated from George Washington University and University of Buffalo School of Law. During WWII he served four years in the US Navy as Operations Officer at Key West and Miami, FL, and as an Antisubmarine Warfare Officer at the Naval Advance Base on the South Pacific island of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. Following the professional careers of his father, uncle and brother, he was an attorney at law having been admitted to practice in 1939 with an office in the Hotel Jamestown. For several years he practiced in association with Warren T. Erickson and later with the firm of Hall and Piazza. He was a life member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church serving on the Vestry for nine years and Executive Committee of the Diocese of Western New York for four years. In matters of public service Mr. Weeks devoted much time and effort having served as Mayor of the City of Jamestown from 1952-1953, Jamestown Board of Education, County Board of Supervisors, Director of the Jamestown Chamber of Commerce and the Chautauqua County Fair Association. For Twelve years he served on the Executive Committee of the Cerebral Palsy Association, six years on the County Boy Scout Executive Committee, the Girl Scout Advisory Committee, was an early Director and Life Member of the Fenton Historical Society and was cited by the Organization of Christians and Jews. Mr. Weeks served as President of the following organizations: Jamestown Bar Association, Jamestown High School Alumni Association, Chautauqua County Historical Society, Republican Club of Greater Jamestown, and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity at Cornell Law School. At Colgate University he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity and at Jamestown High School was a founder and later Grand President of the Braw Caddie Clan as well as a member and later Grand President of the Alpha Zeta Fraternity. In addition to being a member of Equity, Mt. Tabor, Chadakoin and Monitor Lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Moon Brook Country Club and Jamestown Rotary Club, Mr. Weeks has been an ardent Freemason. He was Master of Mt. Moriah Lodge F&AM, Master of Justice Robert H. Jackson Lodge of Research, District Deputy Grand Master for the Chautauqua County District, Master of the Scottish Rite Lodge of Perfection, officer of the Knights of Templar and the Jamestown Consistory, a member of all the York Rite Bodies, of Kharram Grotto and Ismalia Temple of the Shrine. For six years he was a piper in the Grotto's Scottish Highland Bagpipe Band. He held the coveted awards of the Blue Lodge Hall of Fame, the Scottish Rite Meritorious Service Award, and in 1981 received the 33rd Degree of Scottish Rite Masonry. In addition to visiting forty-eight Masonic Temples throughout the world he attended degree conferrals in Auckland, New Zealand, New Delhi, India, Bridgeton, Barbados, Kilwinning, Scotland, Hamilton, Bermuda, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Republic of China. Surviving are two nephews Ross L. Weeks, Jr. of Tazewell, VA and James W. Lyons of Stanford, CA, and a niece Louise W. Hair of Frewsburg. He was preceded in death by his wife Sarita Hopkins Weeks, whom he married in St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hamilton, NY on December 15, 1945, a brother Ross L. Weeks, Sr. and a sister Mary Weeks Lyons. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in St. Lukes Episcopal Church. Rev. Eric Williams, Rector and Rev. Susan Anslow Williams, Associate Rector, will officiate. Inurnment will be in Lake View Cemetery. Friends will be received in the Undercroft of the church following the service. A Masonic Lodge Funeral Service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Mt. Moriah Lodge, Baker St. Ext., followed by a 33rd Degree White Rose Service led by the Jamestown Consistory. Memorials may be made to a charity of choice.