Eleanor Wolf Cage

CAGE, Mrs. Eleanor Wolf, of 4144 Stoney Ridge Road, Nathalie, Virginia, died Monday, September 14, 2009 at Virginia Baptist Hospital in Lynchburg. She was born in Swan Creek, Illinois, March 3, 1922 and was 87 years of age. She was the daughter of the late William Wayne Wolf and Elsie Taylor Wolf; and was married for 49 years to Hubert Cage, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Cage was a member of the Catawba Baptist Church, where she was a Sunday School teacher, worked with the youth and served on the flower committee. She was a first lieutenant with the Army Medical Corps, having served with that division as a dietitian during World War II. She served 19 and one half years as the dietitian at Halifax Community Hospital. Mrs. Cage is survived by four daughters, the Reverend Maxine Cage Crenshaw of Nathalie, Va., Janet Cage Carter and husband, Jimmy, of Bedford, Va., Dorothy Lynn "Dot" Cage of Charlottesville, Va., Cathy Cage Offield and husband, Danny, of Buffalo Junction, Va.; one granddaughter, Katlyn Offield of Buffalo Junction, Va.; two brothers, Richard Wolf of Abingdon, Illinois, Kenneth Wolf of Bushnell, Illinois; one sister, Evelyn Chadderdon of Bushnell, Illinois. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Leland Wolf and Harold Wolf. Funeral services for Mrs. Cage will be held Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 2 p.m. at Catawba Baptist Church, with the Rev. Charles Morgan and the Rev. Maxine Cage Crenshaw officiating. Burial will follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Powell Funeral Home and other times at her home, 4144 Stoney Ridge Road, Nathalie, Va. For memorials, please consider the Catawba Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 128, Nathalie, Va. 24577. Online condolences may be directed to www.powellfunerals.com. Arrangements are by Powell Funeral Home, 1603 Wilborn Avenue, South Boston, Virginia.
This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.