09/22/2025
Judy Weber, wife of Ted Weber, died on Friday, Sept. 19, after a short hospice stay at Shirkey’s in Richmond, Mo.
following her passing, her family was left off-kilter because, although her death was not unexpected, it left a sudden silence where there once was a small spitfire of a woman.
She was born Judith Kay McClung, on Oct. 15, 1940, in Ottawa, Kan., to Roberta (Scoville) and Glenn McClung. Her father died in a work accident when she was 2 years old, and her mother was pregnant with her sister Jeanne. Her dad remained a throughline in her life. She kept two photos of her father on a bedroom dresser in her home, one with his arms around 1-year-old Judy, a bonnet covering her strawberry blonde hair.
She moved with her mother and siblings to Richmond as a young child and returned to Kansas frequently to visit her many cousins, aunts and uncles.
Judy’s stepfather George Winders and his wife Roberta owned the Dairy Queen on Main Street in Richmond for a number of years, where Judy and siblings Jeanne and Jan would work. A brown-eyed boy caught her eye there. (Roberta once told her grandchildren that Judy thought Ted looked better than an ice cream cone.) Judy graduated from Richmond High School in 1958 and attended Christian College in Columbia briefly before she and Ted married on Valentine’s Day in 1960.
Teddi Kay followed in 1961, Amy in 1963, Meg in 1970 and Erin in 1973.
Judy was industrious and endlessly curious. She worked as a bank teller for a number of years to contribute to the family upkeep. But her creativity and perfectionism found an outlet in sewing, crafts, gardening, improving her home and intricately tracking genealogy. She was a history buff and a prolific reader, keeping lists of her favorite authors and don’t-want-to-miss titles. Her family realized, in swapping stories, she was also often a comedian, master of the wry, ironic comment.
Her family grew, and some scattered. But she was always there, always with an opinion. And although she sometimes found the rest of the world lacking, her four daughters were, for her, always near- perfect. Siblings Jeanne Griffing, Jan Cefalu, Dick Winders and Kathy Winders remained dear to her, and her husband, children and grandchildren are sure that her mother, her dad, George, Jeanne and Dick were there to greet her on Friday afternoon.
Judy leaves behind husband Ted, daughters Teddi Kay Weber (Gladstone, Mo.), Amy Allyn (Tim) Hubbard (Vista, Calif.), Meg Elaine Weber (Lincoln, Neb.), Erin Gayle (Jon) Dana (Richmond, Mo.), sisters Jan (Mario) Cefalu of Boise, Idaho, and Kathy Winders (Richmond, Mo.), nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Shirkey Hospice. They can be left at or mailed to Thurman Funeral Home, 507 East Main Street-P.O. Box 190, Richmond, MO 64085.
Visitation with graveside memorial services will be held on Saturday, September 27, 2025, with visitation to be held from 10:00 A.M. to 10:45 A.M. at Thurman Funeral Home in Richmond, with private family services to follow in Richmond Memory Gardens
