Junior Weisshaar

Memorial services will be held on January 6, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. at the St. John's Church; 28591 CR 7; Idalia, CO. Internment will follow in the St. John Cemetery.
Junior B. Weisshaar passed away peacefully on December 23, 2024 in Torrington, Wyoming. Junior was born on June 18, 1932 to William Christian Weisshaar and Frieda Augustine Adolf Weisshaar at their farm sixteen miles northwest of Burlington, Colorado. At age six, Junior attended grade school in a one room adobe school house in Yale, Colorado. The first thing he had to do was learn to speak English, since he only knew German up until that time.
In the spring of 1941, his folks sold the farm and moved sixteen miles north of Vona, Colorado and ran a grocery store for a short time. That is when and where he met Jerry Summers and her mother, his school teacher.
In the fall of 1944, the Weisshaar family opened a grocery store in Idalia, Colorado.
In 1946, Junior attended the confirmation class at St. John Church, south of Idalia and became a lifetime member.
In 1951, Junior was in the first class to graduate from the new Idalia High School. Two weeks after graduation, Junior went to work for the Y-W Electric REA and built new power lines to sixteen new members southwest of Idalia, three irrigation wells for Idalia, and oil wells near Akron and Anton, Colorado.
In November of 1952, Junior was drafted in the Army. After sixteen weeks of boot camp, he served his country in Korea for the next sixteen months until October, 1954.When he returned home, he knew jobs would be hard to find. Junior made a trip to the Y-W office in Akron and they were in need for an area man in Idalia, and he accepted the job. This was the beginning of a forty year journey with Junior as a lineman for Y-W Electric as truck #6.
On December 21, 1956, Junior married Geraldine Daye "Jerry" Summers and started a family. They were blessed with three children, Dale J., Judy Ann and Jody Lee. All three of their children also graduated from high school in Idalia, Colorado.
As a husband, father, uncle, grandfather, friend, church member, community member, and journeyman lineman, Junior continued to show his love and dedication by making those things important in his life. We can all learn a lesson of how to live life to the fullest by being grateful for what we have, saving for the future, and being people of our word.
Junior is survived by his wife Jerry, his children Dale and Trenda Weisshaar of Torrington, WY, Judy and Ed Rusher of Ordway, CO, and Jody and Bob Pennington of Amarillo, TX. He is also survived by brother Dennis Weisshaar of Grand Junction, CO and sister-in-law Kathy Weisshaar of Loveland, CO. His legacy will continue through the lives of his grandchildren, Amy, Jeff, Daniel, Erin, Megan, Cody and Roxanne and his great-grandchildren, Riley, Hayley, and Eddie Rusher, Grace, Emma and Ethan Ison, Owen Brown, Paul and Abel Estes, and Lincoln Spence.
Memorial Contributions may be made to:
St. John Church Cemetery Board
28591 County Road 7
Idalia, CO 80735