Eileen D. Wise

1924 - 2016

Eileen Doris Wise

Eileen Doris Wise, age 89, died on April 19, at the Oakcrest Health Center in DeKalb, Illinois.

The daughter of Maurice and Jeannette Packer, she was born in Boston in 1926 and grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts. She attended Westbrook Junior College in Maine. She married Sidney Wise in 1947 and the couple spent the first years of marriage in Los Angeles. They moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1953, where she lived until her move to DeKalb in 2012. She worked as a reading teacher in the Lancaster public schools and for the Fulton Bank. She was a longtime member of Shaarai Shomayim Temple in Lancaster and was active with the temple's Hadassah group. Among her interests were gardening, films, traveling, entertaining, and reading. She was famous for her parties, her wit, and her New England accent.

She is survived by two children, Deborah Booth (Colin) of DeKalb, and David Wise (Marcie) of Chantilly, Virginia; four grandchildren, Paul Booth (Katie) of Forest Park, Anna Bird (Jason) of Wayne, Pennsylvania, Benjamin Wise of Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, and Adam Wise of Chantilly, Virginia; and by a brother, Robert Packer (Sonia) of Albuquerque. S

he was preceded in death by her husband in 1994 and by a daughter, Carolyn, in 1978.

The funeral will be in Lancaster. Local arrangements were entrusted to: Finch Funeral Home 310 Oak St. DeKalb, IL, 60115 (815) 758-3841.