David Stanley Weeks

<p>David Stanley Weeks had an eye for mixing colors and textures that he put to good use as owner, with his wife, Claire, of Flowerland in Santa Rosa’s Montgomery Village Shopping Center.</p><p>Weeks died Monday at his home in Santa Rosa after suffering from lung cancer. He was 67.</p><p>His wife had died in January. The couple had been married for 38 years.</p><p>“The flower shop was the main thing that they did in their lives,” said their son Ken Gray of Santa Rosa.</p><p>By providing flowers for weddings, proms and funerals for nearly five decades, the couple got to know many people in the community.</p><p>Born in Washington state, David Weeks grew up in Eureka and came to Santa Rosa in about 1961. For a time he worked at a gift shop in Montgomery Village, but he soon was hired at Flowerland, the store owned by his future wife, a native Santa Rosan.</p><p>In the years that followed, he came to oversee the floral arranging while Claire Weeks did the bookkeeping. The family continues to operate the flower shop.</p><p>The couple regularly produced a floral exhibit for the Hall of Flowers at the Sonoma County Fair. Weeks designed and installed the exhibits.</p><p>Outside of the business, Weeks enjoyed time with his family, including summer vacations to Twain Harte above Sonora, ski trips in the Sierra Nevada and many visits with his two grandsons, Robbie and Jason Toumbs, both of Benicia.</p><p>Weeks loved to draw with charcoal and colored pencils, and he regularly worked crossword puzzles.</p><p>Along with his son, Weeks is survived by his daughter, Amy Toumbs of Benicia, and another son, John Gray of San Francisco.</p><p>Private family services will be held.</p><p>The family prefers memorial contributions to the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church Foundation, 330 Ellis St., San Francisco 94102.</p><p>— Robert Digitale</p>