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Jonathan Webster Weisheit, 71, of Bel Air, Maryland, passed away tragically in an accident on Sunday, August 17, 2025, during a Formula Race Promotions race at Summit Point Raceway near Charles Town, West Virginia. Jonathan was born at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore on May 6, 1954, to Bowen P. Weisheit of Baltimore and Edith Burroughs Weisheit of Quincy, Massachusetts, both now deceased. He attended Saint Paul’s School for Boys in Baltimore and matriculated to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Honors College. Subsequently, he earned a Professional Practice Certificate in engineering from Georgetown University. Jonathan pursued an automotive career in EPA/DOT design and compliance projects for luxury imported automobiles as President of J.K. Technologies, LLC., and was qualified as a professional expert witness on automotive importation and engineering in various courts in Maryland and Florida. He was a passionate formula car racer, trap shooter, waterfowl hunter, and offshore fisherman. He held a private pilot license and a Coast Guard OUPV commercial captain’s license. He won Formula race car regional and national championship series in every decade from 1971 to 2025, in cars he designed and built, and was inducted into the Sports Car Club of America Formula Vee Hall of Fame in 2024. He regularly competed in a number of foreign and domestic fishing tournaments, including the International Masters Angling Tournament and the Ocean City White Marlin Open. He was one of only five rookies ever to win the annual Ocean City Light Tackle Derby in its 78-year history. He earned many Winter League trap shooting awards at local gun clubs, including Prince George’s County Trap and Skeet Center, Carney Rod and Gun Club, and Macks Cedar Gun Club. Over the years, his waterfowl call lanyard accumulated a total of twenty duck and three goose leg bands from a wide variety of species. As a young man, he was an award-winning regional billiards player and an accomplished club squash player. Jonathan is survived by his beloved domestic partner of many years, Lois L. Joyeusaz, his two sons, Randall Harrington Weisheit of Annapolis and Austin Alexander Weisheit of Boston; as well as his sister, Kate P. Packard of Tacoma; brother, Bowen P. Weisheit, Jr. of Baltimore; and numerous grandchildren, paternal and maternal cousins. A memorial service in celebration of Jonathan’s life will be held at 10:30 am on Thursday, September 11, 2025, in All Saints Church, 3 Chevy Chase Circle, Chevy Chase, MD 20815. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Jonathan W. “Jon” Weisheit ’73 Memorial Scholarship Fund at St. Paul’s Schools through the following link: https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/donor-form?svcid=renxt&formId=e2ffdb0e-7602-4012-a566-b1cd7e47efe9&envid=p-tUeHPG7lA0CuPtUzSoxFmQ&zone=usa The Directors of Brown-Pennington-Atkins Funeral Home are caring for the family.

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Mr. Jonathan Webster Weisheit

May 6, 1954 - August 17, 2025