Robert Cooper Weaver, brother of Mobile College (now University of Mobile) founding president William Weaver, died Nov. 5. He was 86.
A Talladega native, Weaver is a graduate of Howard College (now Samford University) and founded Talladega Community Church for the Deaf. He is the first recipient of the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind (AIDB) Foundation’s Volunteer of the Year Award and NASCAR’s Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award for his work with AIDB. He also was a recipient of the National Pioneer in Deaf Ministries Award.
Weaver funded the Robert C. Weaver Chapel at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega and was the first director of AIDB’s Hawkins Chapel.
He was preceded in death by his brothers, William and Davis, and is survived by his sister, Ann Weaver Armstrong.
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