Agatha (Bruce) Watson passed away on Wednesday, May12, after a very brief illness. Agatha will be most remembered as a loving mother and devoted wife.
Whether she was making chocolate cake for her kids, teaching her grandchildren how to “scare” Strarlings with her BB gun or serving coffee to high school sweetheart (and husband) Bruce, she always did it with a twinkle in her eye that belied her German roots.
For many years, when her grandchildren were young, she would host an annual Christmas gathering at her treasured home on Rice Lake. The dozen or so kids would sleep like cord wood on the floor before waking up to the smell of her blueberry kuchens. Agatha was well known within the Northern Wisconsin art community as one of the finest artists in the area, a passion that has been passed on to her great-granddaughters.
She also adored her horses Rex and Dusty, who served as the models for many of her paintings. After graduating from Eau Claire High School and starting her family, she earned a teaching certificate before pursuing her avocation of art. Later in life she spent her winters at her home away from home in Roseville, Minn., with the family of her son Bruce and his wife, Louise. While in Rice Lake she was very active in the Senior Center and art education classes.
Agatha was preceded in death by her husband, Bruce; father, Anton Korger; mother, Rose; sisters, Rosemary Menard, Elmira Kane, and Anita Korger; brothers, Fredrick Korger, Harold Korger and Anton (Buzz) Korger, and her son, Bruce who just recently passed away. Her surviving family includes her sons James and Robert Watson, her daughter in law Louise (Bruce) Watson, 14 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins. Everyone in her family will greatly miss Agatha’s unconditional love.
Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 15, 2004, at Appleyard’s Home for Funerals in Rice Lake, Wis. Father James Powers officiating, with interment in the Nora Cemetery in Rice Lake on Sunday May 16, 2004, at 12:30 p.m. Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Appleyard’s Home for Funerals.
Whether she was making chocolate cake for her kids, teaching her grandchildren how to “scare” Strarlings with her BB gun or serving coffee to high school sweetheart (and husband) Bruce, she always did it with a twinkle in her eye that belied her German roots.
For many years, when her grandchildren were young, she would host an annual Christmas gathering at her treasured home on Rice Lake. The dozen or so kids would sleep like cord wood on the floor before waking up to the smell of her blueberry kuchens. Agatha was well known within the Northern Wisconsin art community as one of the finest artists in the area, a passion that has been passed on to her great-granddaughters.
She also adored her horses Rex and Dusty, who served as the models for many of her paintings. After graduating from Eau Claire High School and starting her family, she earned a teaching certificate before pursuing her avocation of art. Later in life she spent her winters at her home away from home in Roseville, Minn., with the family of her son Bruce and his wife, Louise. While in Rice Lake she was very active in the Senior Center and art education classes.
Agatha was preceded in death by her husband, Bruce; father, Anton Korger; mother, Rose; sisters, Rosemary Menard, Elmira Kane, and Anita Korger; brothers, Fredrick Korger, Harold Korger and Anton (Buzz) Korger, and her son, Bruce who just recently passed away. Her surviving family includes her sons James and Robert Watson, her daughter in law Louise (Bruce) Watson, 14 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins. Everyone in her family will greatly miss Agatha’s unconditional love.
Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 15, 2004, at Appleyard’s Home for Funerals in Rice Lake, Wis. Father James Powers officiating, with interment in the Nora Cemetery in Rice Lake on Sunday May 16, 2004, at 12:30 p.m. Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Appleyard’s Home for Funerals.
Agatha (Bruce) Watson passed away on Wednesday, May12, after a very brief illness. Agatha will be most remembered as a loving mother and devoted wife.
Whether she was making chocolate cake for her kids, teaching her grandchildren how to “scare” Strarlings with her BB gun or serving coffee to high school sweetheart (and husband) Bruce, she always did it with a twinkle in her eye that belied her German roots.
For many years, when her grandchildren were young, she would host an annual Christmas gathering at her treasured home on Rice Lake. The dozen or so kids would sleep like cord wood on the floor before waking up to the smell of her blueberry kuchens. Agatha was well known within the Northern Wisconsin art community as one of the finest artists in the area, a passion that has been passed on to her great-granddaughters.
She also adored her horses Rex and Dusty, who served as the models for many of her paintings. After graduating from Eau Claire High School and starting her family, she earned a teaching certificate before pursuing her avocation of art. Later in life she spent her winters at her home away from home in Roseville, Minn., with the family of her son Bruce and his wife, Louise. While in Rice Lake she was very active in the Senior Center and art education classes.
Agatha was preceded in death by her husband, Bruce; father, Anton Korger; mother, Rose; sisters, Rosemary Menard, Elmira Kane, and Anita Korger; brothers, Fredrick Korger, Harold Korger and Anton (Buzz) Korger, and her son, Bruce who just recently passed away. Her surviving family includes her sons James and Robert Watson, her daughter in law Louise (Bruce) Watson, 14 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins. Everyone in her family will greatly miss Agatha’s unconditional love.
Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 15, 2004, at Appleyard’s Home for Funerals in Rice Lake, Wis. Father James Powers officiating, with interment in the Nora Cemetery in Rice Lake on Sunday May 16, 2004, at 12:30 p.m. Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Appleyard’s Home for Funerals.
Whether she was making chocolate cake for her kids, teaching her grandchildren how to “scare” Strarlings with her BB gun or serving coffee to high school sweetheart (and husband) Bruce, she always did it with a twinkle in her eye that belied her German roots.
For many years, when her grandchildren were young, she would host an annual Christmas gathering at her treasured home on Rice Lake. The dozen or so kids would sleep like cord wood on the floor before waking up to the smell of her blueberry kuchens. Agatha was well known within the Northern Wisconsin art community as one of the finest artists in the area, a passion that has been passed on to her great-granddaughters.
She also adored her horses Rex and Dusty, who served as the models for many of her paintings. After graduating from Eau Claire High School and starting her family, she earned a teaching certificate before pursuing her avocation of art. Later in life she spent her winters at her home away from home in Roseville, Minn., with the family of her son Bruce and his wife, Louise. While in Rice Lake she was very active in the Senior Center and art education classes.
Agatha was preceded in death by her husband, Bruce; father, Anton Korger; mother, Rose; sisters, Rosemary Menard, Elmira Kane, and Anita Korger; brothers, Fredrick Korger, Harold Korger and Anton (Buzz) Korger, and her son, Bruce who just recently passed away. Her surviving family includes her sons James and Robert Watson, her daughter in law Louise (Bruce) Watson, 14 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins. Everyone in her family will greatly miss Agatha’s unconditional love.
Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 15, 2004, at Appleyard’s Home for Funerals in Rice Lake, Wis. Father James Powers officiating, with interment in the Nora Cemetery in Rice Lake on Sunday May 16, 2004, at 12:30 p.m. Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Appleyard’s Home for Funerals.
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