Dr. Bernard Aloysious Weber of Olney, one of the best known physicians of this area died Friday afternoon, January 27, 1956 in Barnes Hospital at St. Louis.  He was 55 years old.

Dr. Weber had been critically ill in Richland Memorial Hospital at Olney suffering with pneumonia.  He was taken to St. Louis last Tuesday for the specialized use of an artificial kidney in a desperate effort to save his life.  For a time it appeared that his life might be spared and some improvements had been noted in his condition.  Weakness of his heart, however, brought his death Friday afternoon.

A son of George T. Weber, founder of the Olney Sanitarium, Dr. Bernard Weber was the oldest of the second generation of Weber family physicians and the first of this generation of brilliant physicians to die.  He played a vital role in the continuation of the outstanding medical reputation of the Weber Clinic and the Olney Sanitarium Clinic.

He received his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine, having completed his pre-medical training at Notre Dame University and St. Louis University.  Following his graduation, internship and special advanced training at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, he returned to Olney to join the staff of the Olney Sanitarium in 1928.

He enlisted in the Army Medical Corps during World War II, serving as a field physician on the front lines on Bougainville, one of the hardest fought engagements of the war in the Pacific.  He later was transferred after being sent back to the United States for treatment of illness acquired in the Pacific area, to the European war zone and served in a field hospital in France and Germany, not too far back of the front lines.  He was discharged with the rank of Major.

For many years he practiced general medicine, but in recent years he had specialized in radiology and X-ray at Olney Sanitarium Clinic and Richland Memorial Hospital and was considered one of the finest men in these fields in this section of the country.

Surviving are his wife, Louise; two sons, Bernard of St. Louis and Ben of Charleston and two daughters, Mrs. William Borah of Olney and Miss Ann Weber, now attending Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana and seven grandchildren.

A son, Richard died in February 1951 while attending Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.  He was also preceded in death by his parents, George Theodore and Elizabeth Hausner Weber.

He leaves the following brothers and sisters:  Mrs. Zean Gassmann of Olney, Mrs. W. D. Miller of Olney, Mrs. E.B. Sebree of Fort Monroe, Va., Mrs. Frank Schilt of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Howard Porter of Fairfield, Mrs. Martha Wilkinson of Olney, George T. Weber of Pekin, Mrs. L.A. Eagleson of Olney, Mrs. Allen Hutcheson of Wilmette, Joe Weber of Olney, Mrs. John Adamson of Arlington, Va., Mrs. Tom Shaughness of Dallas, Texas and Mrs. G.M. McCulloch of St. Petersburg, Fla.

Funeral Mass was held Monday morning at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Olney with Rev.  George P. Lally officiating.  Interment was made at Haven Hill Cemetery in Olney.

Information from an Olney (IL) newspaper