Naomi Ellen Weinacht

Naomi Ellen Weinacht was born on June 4, 1936, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She passed peacefully at Autumn Wind Assisted Living, in Caldwell, Idaho on October 19, 2026.

Naomi was the youngest of five children that were born to Vaughn and Elsie Smuck. Most of her growing up was in Colorado Springs. She and her parents spent several years in the Texas panhandle town of Booker, helping her brother Norman farm. Naomi finished high school in 1954, at Friends Bible College, in Haviland, Kansas, which still had a high school program at that time. Naomi married Lowell Weinacht, a year later, on May 15, 1955. Four children, Alan, Brian, Ken, and Lynnea were born into this family.

Naomi was a stay at home mother who faithfully loved her children, extended family members and her friends. She was readily known as someone who made friends wherever she went.

Lowell entered into pastoral ministry at the Friends Church in 1972, and she worked alongside him until retirement. They retired to Nampa, Idaho in 2002 to live near Lynnea, who was by then a faculty member at Greenleaf Friends Academy, in Greenleaf, Idaho. In those years Brian and Alan moved to Nampa and Greenleaf respectively.

Lowell passed in November 2009, and she was grateful to be near children and grandchildren. Naomi was the last living member of her generation. She is survived by her four children, Alan (Margie), Brian (LuAnn), Ken (Paula), and Lynnea (Tim). She had eleven grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren.

Naomi was readily known and respected among her family and friends as a thoughtful, loving person who took genuine interest in how others were doing. They counted on her to be their prayer partners. Her children speak of how often people say to them, “Your mother is the friendliest, nicest person I’ve ever met”. Bethany Magnuson, one of Naomi’s granddaughters, expressed in a letter to Naomi, just before she passed, the impact Naomi had on other’s lives. Bethany wrote, “I've seen you my whole life as an example of strength, independence, kindness, and joy in the Lord. . . I'll keep talking about our memories and keep them alive over here because I want to leave a similar example for my own kids and grandkids. And I pray that others can see the light of Christ in me the way I always see it in you.”

We are most thankful for Naomi’s legacy of love and goodness.