The immediate years after World War II were a time for Voil and Annie's children to get married and get back to normal life. The Webbs had four weddings in fairly close order: Robert Webb with Anna Louise Koontz on March 24, 1945; Leonard Webb with Dolores Grace Kidwell on Aug. 26, 1945; Richard Webb with Teresa Lusby on (DATE?); and Wah Ni Tahe Webb with William Albert Baker. More than a dozen children soon followed. There's a family story that it was during Robert and Anna's wedding that Leonard and Dolores announced they were engaged and Richard met Teresa. (Teresa supposedly was brought to the wedding by Dan Webb, who never married.)
Voil continued to live rather quietly. Aside from doing masonry jobs, he produced bricklayers' levels as a hobby. He died in January 1961 and is buried at National Memorial Park in Falls Church, Va., above his name are a pair of builder's squares used in bricklaying and construction.
Annie moved back into the city, living mainly in the Belvedere Apartments at 1301 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Today that's a fairly gentrified area, but when Annie lived there it was tumble-down and scarred from the 1968 riots when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She lived there until her death in December 1976. She is buried next to Voil at National Memorial Park.
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