George Weiser

George Thomas Weiser passed away on July 8, 2024 at Medicalodge Nursing Home. He was born in Cherryvale, KS on February 14, 1927, to C.A. (Bud) Weiser and Ermal Jean Weiser, nee: Hoffman. He attended Roosevelt Jr High School and Field Kindley High School where he was elected captain of the SEK championship football team in 1944. He was drafted near the end of WWII and spent a year in Germany in the Army of occupation. After his discharge, he returned to Coffeyville and attended Coffeyville Junior College and graduated in 1949. He started center and linebacker for the Red Raven football team in 1947 and 1948. The 1948 team was undefeated and rated number 3 in the nation. 

After earning a degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Kansas in the spring of 1952, he entered the Regular Army as an ROTC distinguished military graduate. He served as a Platoon Leader and Company Commander in the Third US Infantry Division in Korea. He was directly involved in some intense battles in these capacities. When he returned from Korea he attended the US Army Intelligence School in Baltimore, MA and was subsequently assigned to the Rock Island Field Office in the US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps as the Special Agent in Charge. It was there that he met and married Kay Ivins in 1957. They had 2 sons that he was so proud of. Keith Weiser and Kevin Weiser. This marriage ended in divorce in 1977. 

He resigned from the Army in 1957 and entered the Engineering Construction Business as a Civil Engineer with the Fluor Corporation. He became a Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and a General Manager of Projects for the MW Kellogg Company in the Petro Chemical Industry. He managed projects in the US and abroad. He lived and worked sixteen years in ten different foreign countries in Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. 

In 1985, he married Bess Murphree, and they lived on a ranch near Old Glory, TX. They were divorced after 8 years of marriage and he returned back home to Coffeyville in 1992. He became active in the Meals On Wheels program, the hospital auxiliary, and was a friend of the Brown Mansion. He was a life member of the VFW. He was a member of the Night Writers group and in 2001, he met Karen Thompson there and she became his very dear friend until his death. 

George recommitted his life to the Lord and grew closer to God as he reached his final years. 

George is survived by a son, Keith Weiser and his wife Diane; a son Kevin Weiser; and three grandkids Jessica Hurtado, Scott Weiser and Holly Jones. And 7 great grandkids James Hurtado, Alexander Hurtado, Christopher Hurtado, Elizabeth Weiser, Caroline Weiser, Fox Jones and River Jones; and Karen Thompson and her family. 

Ford-Wulf-Bruns Chapel of Coffeyville has been entrusted with the cremation. There will be no services held per George’s request.