California Obituaries; Los Angeles County 

Roman John Zweber

Submitted by Peggy Hooper 25 Sep 2009

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The Downey Eagle Friday, January 3, 1997 Vol. 4 No. 45

NEWPORT BEACH-A Funeral Mass was heard Dec. 28 at Our Lady Queen 
of Angels Church in Newport Beach for Roman John Zweber, pharmacist 
and co-founder of Zweber Apothecaries in Downey.

He lived in Corona Del Mar, and died Dec. 24.

He was 71, born the 10th of 12 children on his parents' dairy farm in Scott 
County, Minnesota, and graduated in 1943 from Lakeville, Minnesota, High 
School. He loved baseball all his life and graduated from the University of 
Minnesota with a degree in Pharmacy in 1947.

He opened Zweber Apothecary Shop at Third Street and La Reina Avenue 
with his brother, Harold, in 1954.

Survivors include his wife, Elaine; a son, Gary (and wife Cheryl); daughters 
Laurie Talbert (and her husband, Steve), Kathy Zweber, Patricia English 
(and her husband James); grandchildren Megan and Caitlin Talbert, Mathew 
and Victoria English of the Corona Del Mar area; brothers and sisters Lenore 
Christensen of Grants Pass, Oregon, Wilfred, Charles and Clinton of Lakeville, 
Minnesota, Harold of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Gloria Zweber of St. Paul, Minnesota.

He was preceded in death by sisters Josephine and Cecilia Zweber and 
brothers Vincent, Leroy and Emery.

Arrangements were by the Pacific View Mortuary.