Jonathan, 36, and a Major in the Army, was born on October 24, 1971 in New York City.  He attended the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Day School, and received a superb first through eighth grade education at St. Bernard's School.  He attended the Bronx High School of Science, a wonderful public magnet school.  He was accepted at the four colleges to which he applied, but opted to go to the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, graduating in 1993.  His military service took him to many places in the world including tours of duty at Frankfurt, Germany; Fort Knox, KY; Seoul, Korea (twice); Fort Jackson, SC; Kosovo; Fort Benning, GA; Afghanistan; and shorter stays at many places in the US, Egypt, Jordan, and Argentina.

Jonathan loved to sing! As a boy soprano he sang just about every important role including Mendelssohn's "Elijah," Britten's "Curlew River," Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms," and some 20 performances of Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors," including the first performance of that opera in New York's Avery Fisher Hall under the composer's direction.  He was a Children's Chorister with the Metropolitan and New York City Opera Companies for many years.  Wherever he found himself in the world for any length of time he joined a church choir.  He was a superb choral singer with adroit reading skills.

It was in the choir of First Presbyterian Church in Leavenworth Kansas that he sang in the bass section with a Colonel Cox.  They and two others formed a barbershop quartet.  In due time he met Col. Cox's daughter, Meredith, and the rest is history as they say.  Jonathan and Meredith were married in Leavenworth on June 26, 2004, with many friends and relatives of both the Weaver and Cox family present.

Jonathan had an unusual fluency in foreign languages.  In every country he visited he quickly learned the rudiments of the local tongue.  His Russian was rather good and he studied Arabic at West Point.  We have been surprised that he had not been sent to Iraq before the anticipated deployment this fall.  At the Military Academy he rather overloaded his schedule, accumulating many more credits than were required.  He delighted in the demanding intellectual studies there.  His memory for details and history were amazing to us all.

Jonathan had just finished a Master's course in Military Strategy at Leavenworth, and was on his last leg of a grand trip visiting both sides of the family in Michigan, Northville, NY, and Vermont.  We are more glad for that trip than we can say.  As Amahl and his mother sing to one another, they say:  "So, my darling, goodbye.  I shall miss you very much; very much." 

John, Marianne, and Kirianne Weaver.