Tarah Lynn Weaver
May 3, 1970 ~ December 19, 2022
Tarah Lynn (Mitchell) Weaver, age 52, died peacefully surrounded by her family on December 19th.
Tarah was born on May 3rd, 1970, in Holland, Michigan to Paul and Judy Mitchell.
Tarah moved often during her childhood including stops in Gaithersburg MD, Marquette MI, Longmeadow MA, Cairo Egypt and Potomac MD. Tarah took advantage of these stops by learning how to figure skate, play tennis, climb pyramids (shhh) and ride a camel. While living overseas, Tarah’s family would often take trips all over the world. She was able to visit Scandinavia, take a river cruise down the Rhine, explore Moscow when it was still part of the Soviet Union, visit the Holy City, tour the Taj Mahal, and swim at the Great Barrier reef among many other adventures. Through these travels, Tarah learned how to adapt to different situations, appreciate unique cultures and develop independence. Many of Tarah’s closest friends were formed while attending Cairo American College (High School). Tarah continued her education graduating from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Tarah then moved back to the DMV area to start her professional career. Tarah met her future husband Russ while working together at ATR. Tarah enjoyed many years working as a contracts administrator, most recently at Booz Allen Hamilton. Tarah and Russ married on May 6th, 2000. Their love produced Greta, Riley, and Mitchell. Tarah paused her professional career for 10 years to raise her children full-time. Tarah loved being a mother more than anything in the world and nothing was more important to her than family. This was a good thing too, because she married into an especially large family. Tarah embraced and loved the many aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces and they loved her. Tarah and Russ spent many weekends in the summer at their family cottage in Bedford, PA and many holidays in Sarasota, FL at her parent’s home. Tarah and Russ enjoyed taking the children on vacations to different places every year. Some of the more memorable experiences included trips to Sandbridge, the Grand Canyon, Big Bear California, NYC, Boston, Portland Maine, London, Paris and most recently Greece and Crete. When at home, Tarah was always very active. She enjoyed working in the yard and even mowing the lawn. She also enjoyed running on the W&OD trail with friends and attending the gym (Orange Theory) regularly. Tarah was always there for her kids, which usually meant attending all types of sporting events like soccer, basketball, baseball, and field hockey games. Tarah loved baking birthday cakes and banana muffins and when she had time to relax, Tarah always enjoyed a big scoop of ice cream.
Tarah was preceded in death by her father Paul Mitchell, her grandparents and an uncle. She is now survived by husband Russ Weaver, their children Greta Weaver, Riley Weaver and Mitchell Weaver, brother Bryan Mitchell, and mother Judy Mitchell along with in-laws, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Weaver children Education Fund, via check C/O Russ Weaver, Zell.Russ Weaver and Venmo@russw86
Tarah was born on May 3rd, 1970, in Holland, Michigan to Paul and Judy Mitchell.
Tarah moved often during her childhood including stops in Gaithersburg MD, Marquette MI, Longmeadow MA, Cairo Egypt and Potomac MD. Tarah took advantage of these stops by learning how to figure skate, play tennis, climb pyramids (shhh) and ride a camel. While living overseas, Tarah’s family would often take trips all over the world. She was able to visit Scandinavia, take a river cruise down the Rhine, explore Moscow when it was still part of the Soviet Union, visit the Holy City, tour the Taj Mahal, and swim at the Great Barrier reef among many other adventures. Through these travels, Tarah learned how to adapt to different situations, appreciate unique cultures and develop independence. Many of Tarah’s closest friends were formed while attending Cairo American College (High School). Tarah continued her education graduating from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Tarah then moved back to the DMV area to start her professional career. Tarah met her future husband Russ while working together at ATR. Tarah enjoyed many years working as a contracts administrator, most recently at Booz Allen Hamilton. Tarah and Russ married on May 6th, 2000. Their love produced Greta, Riley, and Mitchell. Tarah paused her professional career for 10 years to raise her children full-time. Tarah loved being a mother more than anything in the world and nothing was more important to her than family. This was a good thing too, because she married into an especially large family. Tarah embraced and loved the many aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces and they loved her. Tarah and Russ spent many weekends in the summer at their family cottage in Bedford, PA and many holidays in Sarasota, FL at her parent’s home. Tarah and Russ enjoyed taking the children on vacations to different places every year. Some of the more memorable experiences included trips to Sandbridge, the Grand Canyon, Big Bear California, NYC, Boston, Portland Maine, London, Paris and most recently Greece and Crete. When at home, Tarah was always very active. She enjoyed working in the yard and even mowing the lawn. She also enjoyed running on the W&OD trail with friends and attending the gym (Orange Theory) regularly. Tarah was always there for her kids, which usually meant attending all types of sporting events like soccer, basketball, baseball, and field hockey games. Tarah loved baking birthday cakes and banana muffins and when she had time to relax, Tarah always enjoyed a big scoop of ice cream.
Tarah was preceded in death by her father Paul Mitchell, her grandparents and an uncle. She is now survived by husband Russ Weaver, their children Greta Weaver, Riley Weaver and Mitchell Weaver, brother Bryan Mitchell, and mother Judy Mitchell along with in-laws, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Weaver children Education Fund, via check C/O Russ Weaver, Zell.Russ Weaver and Venmo@russw86
The Owners and Staff at the Money and King Funeral Home, wish to express our sincere sympathy to you. It is our hope that we may be able to make a difficult time more bearable. Please feel free to call us anytime as we are always available to you.
Bob Gallagher
Funeral Director
Russ, Greta, Riley & Mitch, My deepest condolences to you all, I am still trying to process that I won’t see her again and our wonderful conversations over regular breakfasts at Panera and lunches at Sweet Ginger, Tarah and me shared a very warm friendship, very unique to any other I have with any of the moms at OLGC, we stayed good friends till the end and I will forever cherish and be thankful for the gift of her friendship in my life, she was a rare gem who saw every person for who they were and never missed an opportunity to tell me how much our friendship meant to her and how it would be awesome if we could meet up more often…Tarah was the most amazing most dedicated mom I know, her children were everything to her and our every conversation always centered over our kids and of course cooking ( something we both enjoyed ), our conversations always went on for couple hours or more and she would always tell me, we need to keep more time on our calendar when we catch up because we would talk right until we walked to our own cars….Tarah you have given me some of the most beautiful memories of FRIENDSHIP and I will FOREVER be indebted to you for that! You stood by me when I lost Shalini in 2020 and through my grief you were my unwavering support system always checking in on me, sending me gentle reminders of how much you understood me and to take my time in accepting my loss…you told me Shalini knows how you feel and that’s all that matters…never did I ever think I would be sitting here writing a memory in your memory Dear Tarah, I wish I was there for you just as you were for me but now you are with our Lord who you loved so much and You Know how much I will Miss You my Dear Friend and you also know now that if I had known I would have stormed heavens for you my dear friend!
Until we see each other again…I will hold the lovely memories of our friendship very dear in my heart…Panera and Sweet Ginger will never feel the same again my dear….i just know you are in the presence of the lord and praying for us all, watching over us as our Angel forever… You will forever be missed by me! Love you my friend!
RIP Tarah.
We are saddened to learn of Tarah’s passing. Tarah was a beautiful young lady in every way. Our thoughts and condolences go out to Judy, Brian and the Weaver family. Alan and Nancy Heifetz
to the Weaver family & Judy… I never met Tara, but I was Tara’s mom roommate at UNB for 3 years ! Judy & I went thru alot together… I was at Judy & Paul’s wedding. Both of our children are in their early 50’s and I was totally taken back when Judy told me about Tara… She is 5 months older than my daughter and I can’t imagine living thru the loss !!! My deepest condolences go out to Tara’s family, Bryan, her brother and family , and grandma Judy, Tara’s mom. and my friend for over 60 years !!……Elaine Valentine