Joseph Dunning Weed Jr.

Joseph Dunning Weed Jr. of Jacksonville and Cudjoe Key, Fla., died May 20, 2007.

A fifth-generation Floridian and descendant of 19th-century mayors of Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Fla., he was the son of the late Elizabeth Lightfoot Coles Gibbs Weed and Joseph Dunning Weed of Jacksonville and grandson of Margaret Watkins Gibbs and George Williams Gibbs of St. Augustine and Anna McKinney Foster Weed and the Rt. Rev. Edwin Gardner Weed of Jacksonville.

Born April 12, 1924, in Jacksonville, Mr. Weed graduated from Robert E. Lee High School, Jacksonville, attended Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., and graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., class of 1947.

After service in the United States Navy, Mr. Weed returned to Jacksonville in 1955 and entered private business as a homebuilder. Since 1997, Mr. Weed divided his time between Jacksonville and the Florida Keys. He was a past president of both the Northeast Florida Builders Association and Florida Home Builders Association, and served as a director of the National Association of Home Builders of the United States.

Mr. Weed was a communicant of St. Mark's Episcopal Church and a past member of its vestry. He belonged to the Florida Yacht Club, the University Club of Jacksonville, Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Jacksonville Historical Society, the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, the Jacksonville Zoological Society, the Florida Keys Land and Sea Trust/Crane Point, the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, the Friars and the Somerset Chapter, Magna Carta Barons. A past member of the World Class Anglers, Mr. Weed also was a former member of Ye Mystic Revelers, the Bachelors, the English Speaking Union, and the Jacksonville Navy League.

He is survived by his wife, Anne Gordon Topping Weed, whom he married in 1955; a son, Joseph Dunning Weed III of St. Augustine, Fla., and his wife Suzanne Marion Smith Weed; a son, Donald Topping Weed, M.D., and his wife, Kirsten Nielsen Weed, M.D., of Miami; a son, Edwin Gardner Weed II of Baltimore, Md.; grandson, Joseph Dunning Weed IV of St. Augustine; granddaughter, Maya Topping Weed of St. Augustine; grandsons, Zachary Nielsen Weed, Nicholas Christian Weed and Tucker James Weed of Miami; and his sister and brother-in-law, Julia Foster Weed Baldwin and Lorenzo Wilson Baldwin Jr. of Jacksonville. Mr. Weed was predeceased by his sister, Margaret Watkins Weed Gioseffi, of Long Island, N.Y. and St. Augustine, and Edwin Gardner Weed of Tiburon, Calif.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 26, 2007, 11 a.m., at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Jacksonville, Fla., with the Rev. Barnum McCarty, Rector Emeritus, officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Good Samaritan Health Care Centers Inc., 39 Lovett St., St. Augustine, Fla. 32084.

Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home, Edgewood Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

PAID NOTICE

(St. Augustine Record, 05/25/07)