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Note: Betty Jane Weiland 01/07/08 CONNEAUT, Ohio Betty Jane Weiland, 86, of Conneaut, Ohio, formerly of Conneaut Lake, died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, at the Inn-Conneaut Health Center, Conneaut, Ohio. She was born Aug. 21, 1921, in Collingsburg, a daughter of Arthur W. and Elizabeth Beaman Backstrom. She married Robert J. Weiland Sr. April 21, 1945. He preceded her in death May 21, 2005. She was a member of Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church of Conneaut Lake and was involved with its Rosary Society. She was a very helping hand in her community, church and neighborhood. She graduated in 1940 from Clairton High School with high honors. She was a 1943 graduate of Passavant Hospital School of Nursing in Pittsburgh and was a registered nurse. She also attended Villa Maria College in Erie. During World War II, she worked as a registered nurse at U.S. Steel in McKeesport and at McKeesport Hospital. After moving to Conneaut Lake in 1946 with her husband, she worked at the former Spencer Hospital now Meadville Medical Center in various capacities during her 38 years of employment there including teaching nursing students, assisting with operating the hospitals first intensive care unit and as head nurse in the recovery room prior to her retirement. She also worked as a nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1951. She was a healer to the sick she cared for, a teacher and mentor to students she taught and a friend to her co-workers and all whose life she touched through the years. Survivors include two daughters, Darla Jeanne Weiland of Parma, Ohio, and Darlene Joy Kozesky and her husband, Thomas, of Conneaut, Ohio; a son, Robert J. Weiland Jr. and his wife, Sue, of Perkasis; seven grandchildren, Paul R. Popka Jr., Pamela R., Popka, Phillip Popka and Patrick R. Popka; Stephen G. Katchur; Jon T. Kozesky; and Robert J. Weiland III; three great-grandchildren, Ethan T. Popka, Jonathan P. Popka and Blake R. Popka. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years; her parents; a sister, Marguerite Cooley; and two brothers, Oscar C. Backstrom and James A. Backstrom. Calling hours are Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Dickson Funeral Home, 130 N. Second St., Conneaut Lake, where a Rosary service will be held at 4 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Our Lady Queen of the Americas with Fr. Stephen Anderson of the church as celebrant. Burial will be in Our Lady Queen of the Americas Cemetery.
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