Erma T. Weil Age 95, born 3/27/1914, died peacefully on 10/31/2009 in Mountain View California. Graveside services will be held on Nov. 6, 2009 at 1:00 pm at Gate of Heaven in Cupertino, 22555 Cristo Ray Drive, Los Altos, CA. 94024. In addition a celebration of her life will be held on Nov. 13, 2009 at 1:00 pm in the Mountain View Senior Center at 266 Escuela Ave. , Mountain View, CA 94040. where Erma spent so many happy times. In lieu of flowers, the family encourages donations to the Mountain View Senior Center. Ermina and her two brothers, Dominic and Michael (both deceased) were the children of Pietro Januzzi and Erminia Serratore, both Italian immigrants. She was married for fifty years to the late Howard Weil, an electrical engineer and a musician. They moved from Racine, Wisconsin to Sunnyvale, CA. in 1955. She is survived by both her sons, Robert and Richard, their spouses, Helene and Cherryl , and her three grandchildren, Nadine, Kevin, and Brian. Erma had a lifelong affiliation with the Catholic Church having been raised by German Catholic nuns in Lake Superior, Wisconsin from early childhood through her formative years. She overcame a great many obstacles in her life including living in the orphanage, graduating from high school during The Great Depression, having her husband drafted just as they were starting to raise a family, and the untimely death of her two brothers. In spite of all these things, Erma had an incredible love of life, an unquenchable thirst for knowledge , and a great sense of fun that delighted all who knew her. Upon graduating from high school she wanted to see the world even though it was during the Depression, so she scrimped and saved so she could take a series of what were then called "escorted tours" and went to Glacier National Park, the New York World's Fair, Yosemite, Carlsbad,Yellowstone,Catalina Island, and the Grand Canyon. Erma was also a master of many types of handcrafts including knitting, sewing, needle point, crocheting, calligraphy, and copper tooling. In the early 1930's she started her life long love affair with music and dancing. She mastered swing, ballroom, country western, line dance, tap, jitterbug, and the tango. In her later years (87) she learned the hula and entertained the "seniors" of Santa Clara County with a hula dance troupe she belonged to. In recognition of these achievements, an Erma Weil Dance Scholarship has been created at Ballet San Jose by her granddaughter, Nadine. Erma was always very supportive of her family, was a wonderful grandmother, and baked the world's best Christmas sugar cookies.