John M. Weaver Jr. served in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a Captain with the 1250th Army Air Force Base Unit during World War II. A Finance Officer and Pilot, he died on December 4, 1945, when his Army transport disappeared en route to Accra, British West Africa, from Casablanca. It is thought he may have flown to sea to avoid a storm and crashed or have plunged into the dense jungle around the Liberian Coast. He is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at North Africa American Cemetery, Carthage, Tunisia. He received the Purple Heart.