- Date Of Birth: January 30, 1940
- Date Of Death: September 30, 2017
- State: Texas
January 30, 1940 – September 30, 2017
John David Wennermark passed away at home in Boerne on September 30, 2017, at the age of seventy-seven.
John was a well-known trial attorney in San Antonio, being graduated from St. Mary’s University with a B.A. in Psychology and St. Mary’s University School of Law, Magna Cum Laude, making the highest grade in Texas on the Bar Exam, and giving the speech to the Supreme Court of Texas on behalf of all the Texas Law School graduates in 1963. He was a member of Phi Theta Kappa and Delta Epsilon Sigma, International scholastic fraternities, and Phi Delta Phi, an international scholastic legal fraternity. While in law school, John was Parliamentarian, Vice-president, and President of the Student Bar Association, Associate Editor of the Law School Newspaper, and a member of Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. John was a member of the San Antonio Bar Association, a member of the Texas Bar Association, and was also licensed to practice in the United States Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas and the United States Federal Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit of the United States. John was a member of Mensa.
He served as a High Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He is preceded in death by his parents, John Harold and Roberta Wennermark, a daughter, Jennifer Roxanne Wennermark and son Friend Ferguson Wennermark.
He is survived by his wife, Beverly; 3 sons, John David Wennermark, Jr., Jared Layton Wennermark and Christopher Langston Wennermark; 3 daughters, Catherine Fredericksen, Leslie Kathleen Kocurek, and Valorie Connally; 16 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; a brother, Charles Wennermark;a sister, Jeanne Howell; and several nieces and nephews.
John kept busy with his law practice, home life, and family history research. Outdoors, he loved to garden and keep bees. Indoors, he had a passion for reading and devoted his life to his loving wife and his many children. John and his family moved to Boerne, Texas in January 1978. He was well-known to friends there and to colleagues, friends, and judges in San Antonio.
