Eugenia Grace Funk

Eugenia Grace Funk, 89, passed away peacefully on April 15, 2015 at Big Bend Hospice in Tallahassee, Fl. Born in Green Bottom (Cabell County), WV on October 28, 1925, she graduated from Gallia County High School in Gallipolis, OH in 1943 and married Kenneth Keith in 1946, working as a bookkeeper before raising their four children. Widowed in 1963, she relocated her family to work in the registrar’s office at Florida College in Tampa, Florida. In 1966 she married the late James C. Funk and they were blessed with a daughter and lived in Indian Harbour Beach, FL until 2000 when they retired and moved to Monticello, FL. A loyal daughter, sister, wife, mother and friend, she was a lifelong member of the Church of Christ, a devout and generous Christian who opened her home and heart to many in need. Sharp until the very end, she enjoyed puzzles and games of all kinds; loved laughing and e-mailing with her grandchildren and found delight in flower gardens, pets and playing with her great-grandchildren. One of ten siblings, she was preceded in death by four sisters, Olive Brown, Fern Henry, Marie Slagle and Louise Saunders; two brothers, Garland Omar Saunders and Herman H. Saunders. Surviving are her brother, Albert Saunders (Corenna); two sisters, Beulah Stone and Ethel Saunders; one son, Stephen P. Keith; four daughters, Sandra Patterson, Shirley Miranda, Susan Dohrmann (Randy) and Carla Funk; nine grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren, two great-great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Services will be held on Saturday, April 18 at Beggs Monticello Chapel, 485 E. Dogwood St. Monticello Fl. 32344, at 4:00 PM. Visitation one hour prior to service in chapel. An additional service will be held Monday April 20, 2015 at Willis Funeral Home, Gallipolis, Ohio at 5 PM. Interment at Mound Hill Cemetery, Gallia County, Ohio.