Rowland Dale Weber III; Scion of Weber Baking Co.

Rowland Dale Weber III, 55, scion of the Weber Baking Co. and a food industry executive. He was the grandson of R. Dale Weber Sr., who in 1908 founded the baking company, which later became part of Interstate Bakeries. The younger Weber earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Redlands and a master’s in business administration at USC. He worked his way up as a food and home products executive. In 1975, he became president of Van de Kamp’s Los Angeles, which was later sold. In 1982 he was named senior vice president and general manager of the historic Los Angeles Soap Co., which was founded in 1860 and in recent years has been best known for its White King D laundry detergent. Among Weber’s tasks was overseeing the filming of several entertainment production scenes at the rustic Soap Co. complex on East 1st Street in Downtown Los Angeles, including “The Godfather,” “The Streets of San Francisco” and Loni Anderson’s “Sizzle.” On Sunday in Los Angeles.