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- Died at home, 624 Ostrender Avenue
Married Vera C HARDEE on Sept 1, 1930 in Centerport. Vera was born in Florida in 1906, the daughter of Oscar and Fannie HARDEE, and she worked as a nurse in a local sanitarium. Strangely she seems to have filed to divorce Ernest in 1942 in Dade Co, FL. However, she was his widow.
Ernest Howard Weeks of Riverhead, who died on August 21, leaving personal property not exceeding $10,000 and real estate estimated at $600. The petitioner is Vera Weeks of Riverhead, widow.
Published in The County Review on Sept 3, 1942 p11
Vera subsequently sold the real estate, on the east side of Ostrander av, to his sister Ethel W Carroll for $1000 the next week. Perhaps that fell through since she secured a mortgage on the same property for $2000 in December of that year.
Mrs Vera Weeks had remarried to a Clarence FOSTER and lived in Columbus IN.
Published in The County Review Oct 19, 1944 p2
ERNEST H WEEKS, 46, IS DEAD; TREASURER OF LOCAL COMPANY
Ernest H Weeks, treasurer of the Riverhead News Inc, died on Friday of coronoary thrombosis at his home at the age of 46.
Stricken while working in the mechanical department of the Riverhead News, Mr Weeks went home shortly after 11:30 am. He died a short time later.
Mr Weeks sought to contact Dr Hallock Luce before leaving for his home in the company of Fred Pierson, but the doctor's telephone was busy. A little later, Dr Luce telephoned Mr Weeks' home and getting no response went there in person. He found Mr Weeks dead in bed.
Associated with the Riverhead News for thirty years, he began work there as a youth of sixteen. Later he purchased stock in the company and became a director and treasurer.
Mr Weeks was active in the fire department. He was a former captain of the Ever Ready Hose Company and an active member at the time of his death. For many years up to the time he died, Mr Weeks was financial secretary of Roanoke Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Riverhead. He was captain of the Canton Suffolk, Patriarchs Miliant, and Odd Fellow Group, and district deputy of the OH Howell Encampment, also an Odd Fellow unit.
Other fraternal interests were the Rebekash and the Royal Arcanum.
He leaves a widow, Mrs Vera Weeks, and a sister Mrs Ethel Carroll of Jamaica.
Funeral services were conducted Monday at he Reginald H Tuthill Funeral Home, Riverhead, by the Rev Alfred L Crayton of the Methodist Church.
Obit was published in County Review on Aug 27, 1942 p1
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1895 - 1942 (46 years)