Frances Charlene (Reed) Droege, 90, daughter of John T. Reed and Wilma Frances (Phillips) Reed, died Saturday, Dec. 16, at Ridge Crest Nursing Home.

The family will receive friends from 10-11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 22, at the First Christian Church. Funeral services will follow at 11 a.m. with Pastor Jerry Basye officiating. Interment will follow at Warrensburg Memorial Gardens Cemetery. A luncheon will follow interment at the church.

Charlene was born July 28, 1927, near Knob Noster, Missouri. She grew up in the Valley City Community where she attended elementary school. She graduated from Warrensburg High School in 1944. Later, she attended Central Missouri Teacher College in Warrensburg and taught in a one-room rural school for five years.

She married Gilbert E. Droege, of Knob Noster, on April 27, 1947, at the home of her parents. She has lived in Warrensburg since 1958.

Charlene and Gilbert were the parents of two daughters, Nancy Ann (Droege) Francis who died in 1979, and Ronda Lynn (Droege) Carleton.

She was a member of the First Christian Church of Warrensburg for more than 50 years where she taught Sunday school. She was an active member of Christian Women’s Fellowship, and served several offices on the board. She was a past member of Extension Club 50 and volunteered in community services. She was also employed at the University of Missouri Extension Center.

For enjoyment, she especially liked sewing, quilting, genealogy, flowers, birds and bird houses. She enjoyed making homemade noodles and dinner rolls for every holiday dinner for her family, whom she dearly loved.

She is survived by her daughter, Ronda (Droege) Carleton, and husband, Richard, of Warrensburg; her granddaughters, Melanie (Carleton) Sanders and husband, Garrett, of Pleasant Hill; and Raginn (Carleton) Fusaro and husband, Phillip, of Blue Springs; her grandsons, Brian Francis and wife, Krista, of Salisbury, Missouri; Robert Francis and wife, Tara, of Conway, Arizona; and Bryce Carleton and wife, Whitney, of Raymore, Missouri; her great-grandchildren, Austin, Brady, Garrett, Cooper, MaKenzie, Madden and Mason Francis; Ethan and Kamil Sanders; Kyla Fusaro; Autumn Barefield; and Opal Carleton; and one brother, J.T. Reed, of Knob Noster.

Charlene was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Gilbert; her daughter, Nancy; and a sister, Mary Alice Welch.

Memorial contributions are suggested to the First Christian Church Building Fund and can be left in care of Sweeney-Phillips and Holdren Funeral Home.