Eileen Frances Waege

Eileen (Mrs. Eugene) Waege, Bradley, age 74, died in the Jenkins Living Center at Watertown on Thursday morning, December 1, 2016.

Visitation will be held on Monday, December 5, 2016 from 4-6PM at the Furness Funeral Home in Clark and on Tuesday morning after 9AM in the funeral home chapel.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 10:30 AM in the Furness Funeral Home Chapel at Clark with burial following in the Prairie Hill Cemetery at Bradley. Minister Marion Grimes will officiate. The pianist will be Dorothy Fuller. Casketbearers will be her grandchildren, Nick, Clinton, Sheldon, Cienna, Marcie, and Luke. Posthumous honorary casketbearers are her two granddaughters, Kali Jo Waege and Collete Jean Foster. Other honorary casketbearers will be the great-grandchildren, Molly, Daly, Kaden, Colson, and Cooper.

She was born Eileen Frances Tarbox, the daughter of Horace and Hazel (Sprouse) Tarbox, on April 4, 1942 at Bradley. She was schooled at Bradley.

She was united in marriage to Eugene Waege on October 7, 1962 at South Shore. The couple lived near Bradley their entire married life.  Eileen worked at various jobs including digging potatoes for Yexley's, was their bookkeeper for their own service station in Bradley (where many games of card's were played) and also at County Fair Foods in Watertown.   For many years, Eileen worked as a bookkeeper at the Guest House Motor Inn at Watertown. In 2013 due to failing health, she became a resident of the Jenkins Living Center at Watertown.

Preceding her in death were her parents and 2 granddaughters, Kali Jo Waege and Collete Jean Foster and sisters, Geraldine Armour and Dorothy Tarbox.

Survivors include her husband Eugene Waege of Bradley, a son, Steve (Robin) Waege of Bradley, a daughter, Jessie (Bill) Boss of Clark, grandchildren, Nick, Clinton, Sheldon, Cienna, Marcie, and Luke; 5 great-grandchildren, Molly , Daly, Kaden, Colson, and Cooper. She also leaves a sister, Judy (Dick) Barton of Spokane, WA.

Furness Funeral Home at Clark is serving the family where there is an on-line registry at www.furnessfuneralhome.com