Funeral service for Itoe Y. Wages will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday, September 20, 2018 in Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel.

Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery.

Itoe Y. Wages, age 90, died Friday, September 14, 2018 in Cedar Park, Texas.  She was born June 10, 1928 in Osaka, Japan where she grew up and attended school.  After completing finishing school in Japan she worked for the Japanese Railroad as a ticket sales clerk.  While working as a sales clerk she met her husband, William L. Wages who was stationed in Nara, Japan at the time.  They were married October 3, 1949 in Osaka, Japan.  He preceded her in death on February 7, 2009.

Itoe came to the United States in 1952 and the family lived in several places throughout the states, retiring to Lawton where she lived until her husband passed away.  She then moved to Cedar Park, Texas to live with her daughter.

She was a homemaker and later worked as a store clerk for several department stores in Lawton.  She was a very good seamstress and worked mainly in the fabric department and often the clothes she made were used as displays.  In her later years she started working for Sam's Club in Lawton and worked there many years until her retirement.

She is survived by her two sons, William H. Wages and Lonzo Wages and his wife Julia; her daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Brent Dupin; 11 grandchildren, Deniece, Jannette, Marra, Nichole, William, April, Ward, Holly, Gina, Trentin and Amanda; 18 great grandchildren; and two sisters, Chiyoko and Michiko.

Her parents, one brother, three sisters and her daughter-in-law, Marta Wages, preceded her in death.