Adele R. Weidner, 79, a homemaker and former owner of Weidner’s Septic and Sewer Services in Arlington Heights, died of complications from a stroke Sunday, June 23, in her Arlington Heights home. Born and raised in Des Plaines, Mrs. Weidner dreamed of becoming a beautician. Instead, she spent years running a Buffalo Grove farm, performing such tasks as feeding pigs and milking cows. Later, she managed a successful septic and sewer service. At the Buffalo Grove farm on which she and her late husband, Henry, lived from the late 1940s through the early 1960s, Mrs. Weidner cured sausage, butchered chickens and cooked breakfast at 4:30 a.m. She raised six children and tended to her sick parents and her husband’s parents. After the Weidners bought two apartment buildings in the area, Mrs. Weidner painted the rooms, cut grass and repaired washing machines. “She was so much more than a housewife,” said her daughter RoseMary Weidner-Lundemo. Mr. and Mrs. Weidner sold the farm in 1964 and established Weidner’s Septic and Sewer Services, with Mrs. Weidner handling the day-to-day operations and fielding customer telephone calls. Mrs. Weidner was involved in the business until 1986. Mrs. Weidner is also survived by two more daughters, Diane Popp and Doris Anderson; three sons, Raymond, Steven and James; 15 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. A mass will be said at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Edna Catholic Church, 2525 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Arlington Heights.
