Y1 US Navy, Elizabeth Anne Weir Daniels

Elizabeth Anne Weir (Daniels) joined the United States Navy as a WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Service), attaining the rank of Yeoman First Class. ¹

Weir was born in Billings, Montana to Hattie D. and John Grover Weir. ² She completed high school in Sparks, Nevada. ³ After the war, she attended college at the University of Nevada, where she met Fillmore Daniels. ^{1, 3, 4} The couple wed in 1947 in Las Vegas, Nevada. ⁴ She traveled with her husband and children to France, Germany, and many places in the United States. ¹ Weir’s family wrote the following tribute for her obituary, “Elizabeth possessed remarkable strength and fortitude while raising eight children, often all on her own. Elizabeth had a generous heart, a wonderfully wicked sense of humor, a brilliant mind, and a loving nature. Elizabeth gave selflessly to her family and friends. As a lifelong lover of nature, one could always find Elizabeth tending her roses in the garden, surrounded by her beloved turtles and dogs while turning the hose on her kids. Elizabeth set an unspoken standard for all her children to be selfless and to believe in the value of all human beings. We wish you could have known her.” ¹