YuaVonda Mae Weeks passed away Feb. 20, 2025.
She was born Sept. 17, 1953 in Shawnee, OK to Wendell and Edna LaViness. She graduated from Shawnee High School in 1971. She attended nursing school at OSU and Seminole Junior College. YuaVonda married David Sperry in 1973 in Shawnee, and he preceded her in death in 2003. She had another chance at love and married Carl Weeks on October 11, 2008, in Shawnee.
She worked as a nurse’s aide at several nursing facilities spending most of her career at Golden Rule Nursing Home until she retired in 2008.
YuaVonda is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, David Sperry, and her brother, Darrin LaViness.
Her memory is kept alive by husband, Carl Weeks of the home; children: Carl Michael Weeks and wife Kelli of Plano, TX, David Weeks and wife Laura of Pensacola, FL, and Shari Murrin and husband Leon of McAlester, OK; Seven Grandchildren; Seven Great Grandchildren with one on the way; niece, Michelle LaViness of Prague, OK; nephew, Eric LaViness of Valentine, NE; and many loving church family.
Services were held Feb. 27, 2025 at Central Church of Christ, Shawnee OK under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home of Tecumseh.
