Extracted from The Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX)
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

JAMES HAROLD WEYLAND, 82, passed away peacefully at home in Houston, Texas on August 31, 2009.

Jimmy was born in Alexandria, Louisiana to Alvin Harold Weyland and Helen Duffy Weyland on February 1, 1927. He graduated from Byrd High School in Shreveport, Louisiana and from Texas A&M University with a degree in civil engineering. Jimmy served in the Army Air Corp during WWII in air rescue. He worked in the gas pipeline business for 40 years for Texas Eastern Transmission, Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline and Amercian Natural Resouces. Jimmy had an abiding interest in the beach at Galveston and he loved traveling worldwide. He was an enthusiastic voulnteer of St. Luke's Auxilary art cart and he enjoyed his association with the Friends of the Houston Library.

He is survived by his wife, Alta Jean McConathy Weyland, son, James McConathy Weyland, daughter, Helen Virginia Weyland and her husband, Donald Joseph Riehl, his grandchildren, James Stephen Moehlman and Kathleen McConathy Weyland and brother Charles Duffy Weyland and wife Joyce and thier children and grandchildren.

The family wishes to express its thanks to his caregivers, Santorina Smith and Jacqueline Lewis. Funeral services will be at St. Martin's Church, 717 Sage Road, Houston, Texas 77056 on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 2:00 pm.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St Luke's Auxiliary, http://www.sleh.com/sleh/index.cfm or St. Martin's Church.