Three people died in a house fire Saturday morning on Clay Street north of Chardon Windsor Road in Huntsburg Township, according to Middlefield Fire Department Lt. Ben Reed.
Three people died in a house fire June 5 on Clay Street north of Chardon Windsor Road in Huntsburg Township, according to Middlefield Fire Department Lt. Ben Reed.
Reed said the station received a call at 7:10 a.m. from the Geauga County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher about a house fire and residents were reported to be inside.
When fire trucks arrived, the fire was fully involved, Reed said.
A teenager and his parents, Harvey and Becky Weaver, escaped from the house. The parents’ daughter, Jordan, 20, a Cardinal High School graduate; son, Joshua, 16, a sophomore at Cardinal High School; and future son-in-law, Mitchell Sotera, 20, a Kenston graduate, died in the fire.
Fire departments from all over Geauga County and from Windsor Township responded to the blaze, Reed said, adding the state fire marshal will be investigating it.
Becky’s cousin, Laurie Evans, started a GoFundMe site in support of the Weaver family and shared her thoughts about Jordan, Joshua and Sotera.
“Joshua (was in the) Cardinal STARS Program,” Evans said. “He loved hunting with his dad, he loved to sing and put on shows for everybody wearing a cowboy hat and playing a guitar, making up songs as he went along. He loved animals. He was the best hugger in the world. He always made us laugh and put a smile on all of our faces. He was such a loving boy.”
Jordan and Mitchell met in high school in 2018, Evans said.
“She went to Cardinal, he went to Kenston, where he played on the state championship football team,” she said. “They both graduated in 2019. Jordan was a member of the marching band and was salutatorian of her graduating class.
“They both attended Bethany College. Mitch wanted to be a teacher and Jordan, a medical geneticist. Jordan was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha, Theta Chapter.”
Jordan loved ZTA, said Katie Fuchs, chapter president.
“Her passion for our chapter and organization was beautiful,” she added. “The love Mitch and Jordan had between the two of them was one that some people spend their whole lives looking for. Jordan was one of the kindest souls I have ever known. They all three will be missed tremendously and our lives will just not be the same.”
The family’s GoFundMe account is https://gf.me/v/c/x6jz/9ckz27-please-help-the-weaver-family.
