Our Mission
Weaver Insurance & Financial Advisors seeks to build upon its sixty-plus year history of serving clients and the community. We build relationships based on honesty, integrity and exemplary service in meeting the insurance, investment and financial planning needs of our clients. Our success is measured by the solutions we provide and the generations of families we serve.
Our History
Weaver Insurance started in 1958 when the original owner, Ralph Weaver, started selling life insurance in his basement in Stuarts Draft, Virginia. Ralph remained an owner of Weaver Insurance until his retirement in 1986. Leonard Showalter joined Ralph in 1960 as an owner. They were able to lay a solid groundwork for the agency’s future by what they were able to accomplish over the company’s first decade.
Hunter Hite, Leonard Showalter, and Ralph Weaver
There have been other owners to help lead Weaver Insurance over the years. J. Hunter Hite became an owner from 1969 until 1982. Darrell Weaver became an owner of Weaver Insurance. Darrell was the son of Ralph Weaver and was an owner until his retirement in 2007. In addition, Brent Showalter, son of Leonard, became an owner in 1986. Brent retired at the end of 2019, as one of Weaver’s longest tenured owners.
In 1986 Mike Twitchell joined the ownership group and stayed until his retirement in 2000. Jerry Zirkle, son-in-law of Ralph Weaver, became owner in 1991 and served until his retirement in 2018.
Mike Twitchell & Darrell Weaver
Chad Hatter became an owner in 2007, and serves as the company President as well as Director of the Financial Services Division. J.R. Showalter serves as Vice-President and has been part of our Financial Services team since 2004 (and has been an owner since 2019). Our newest member of the ownership team (as of 2020) is Joel Frazier, who heads up both our Personal and Commercial lines insurance divisions. Joel formerly owned and operated his own insurance agency (Old Dominion Insurance) before merging with Weaver in 2017.
In 2005 Weaver Insurance became known as Weaver Insurance & Financial Advisors, in recognition of the new division that Chad now directs, the Financial Services Division.
As of January 2018, Weaver Insurance & Financial Advisors purchased Old Dominion Insurance of Virginia, formerly located in Verona, Virginia. This acquisition provides access to additional insurance companies in order that we may continue to meet our mission to “build relationships based on honesty, integrity and exemplary service in meeting the insurance, investment and financial planning needs of our clients.”