Janice Irene (Higley) Weaver, 93, passed on into the next life on February 5th, 2025.

Janice was born on September 5th, 1931, in Ogden, Utah, to Walter Lee and Irene (Mortensen) Higley. She was their second child, and first daughter. Her other siblings came along later.

After her father passed away when she was a mere 9 years of age, her mother remarried. Hence, at an early age, Janice called Noble (Nobe) Ralphs “Daddy,” who raised her and her four siblings alongside their mother.

Janice was a very social young woman and made friends easily. She was married to Mark Aaron Weaver on May 17th, 1949. Together they had five daughters and one son. Janice had many talents. She sewed a lot of dresses for her girls for most Easters as well as for Christmas gifts, including doll dresses (for granddaughters later on). Her daughters also really enjoyed her homemade, lifelike paper dolls she would create for us individually. She would draw them on the white cardboard backings for nylon stockings. Back then, both Spiegel and Sears published catalogues with clothing items posing in a way that Momma was able to make the paper dolls fit their displays (there were no live models used). We girls then got to choose and cut out those clothes from the catalogues for our own dolls. Even her only son, Mark Alan, benefitted from her loving influence.

Even amidst a large family, Janice continually used her incredible talent of art, flourishing in portraits, nature, Disney characters, and later on added animals to her repertoire. She was asked and commissioned by friends, neighbors, and even strangers who saw her work, as well as having her art put on display at what was then Weber State College.

Janice is survived by her children, Peggy Frost, Nancy (Steve) Malan, Sandy (Mark) Spinden, Shelley (Brad) Thomassen, and Mark (Stephanie) Weaver; she is also survived by her brother, James (Judy) Higley, and her sister, Jane Sorensen. Also surviving are her 25 grandchildren, 74 great-grandchildren, and 15 great-great grandchildren, along with nieces, nephews and cousins.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Mark Weaver, her daughter and son-in-law, Kathy and Paul Young, two of her grandsons, Jason Frost and Brody Spinden, her brother, Eugene Higley, and her sister, Joanne Shepherd, as well as many others.

A “Celebration of Life” will take place on March 29th, 2025 at the “Harrisville Cabin,” 725 W. Harrisville Rd., Harrisville, Utah, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

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