Mitzi Waehner, 72, of Kenosha, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 14, 2015, at UHS- St. Catherine\u2019s Campus.<\/p>\n
Mitzi was born in Milwaukee, WI, on June 2, 1942, daughter of the late Robert and Mildred (Wagner) Cox.<\/p>\n
She was a proud 1960 graduate of St. Joseph High School.<\/p>\n
On February 8, 1964, she married the love of her life, Jim Waehner, at St. Mary Catholic Church.<\/p>\n
She was employed at Gateway Technical College as an administrative assistant for 26 years, retiring in 2004.\u00a0 While at Gateway, she was an active member of the local AFSCME chapter.<\/p>\n
Mitzi was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church, the chair of the St. Joseph Class of 1960 reunion committee, and a former secretary of the Parkview Terrace Condominium Assoc. Board of Directors.<\/p>\n
Mitzi cherished her many friendships, including the \u2018Animals\u2019 social club, her St. Joe\u2019s friends, her Gateway colleagues, and her swim buddies at Diver Dan\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Along with her husband Jim, she is survived by her three daughters, Kristin (Jim) Harrington, Anne (Michael) Baniel, and Carrie (Dave) Rebro; her grandchildren, Samantha and Zachary Baniel; her best friend and sister, Barbara (the late Michael) Durkin, her brother Tom (Amy) Cox, and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
In addition to her parents, Mitzi was preceded in death by her sister, Mary Cox.<\/p>\n
Mitzi\u2019s family would like to give special thanks to Dr. Chua and her staff and the ICU staff at St. Catherine\u2019s Hospital for their kind and compassionate care.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 beginning with a prayer service at 10:15 a.m. at the Piasecki Althaus Funeral Home, 3720 39th Ave., Kenosha, WI. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary Catholic Church, 7400 39th Ave. Interment will be held privately.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mitzi Waehner, 72, of Kenosha, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 14, 2015, at UHS- St. Catherine\u2019s Campus. Mitzi was born in Milwaukee, WI, on June 2, 1942, daughter of the late Robert and Mildred (Wagner) Cox. She was a proud 1960 graduate of St.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"service-location":[],"class_list":["post-15464","obituary","type-obituary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituary\/15464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obituary"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service-location?post=15464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Informaci\u00f3n del servicio<\/h3>\n