wake

verb, past, usu. ‘waked’, keep watch or vigil beside the body of (a dead person) before burial; hold a wake for (“wake 1” COD); see also wake, n.

“Everybody was waked at home, at the house.”

“I believe my mother was waked at home.”

“One of the drowning victims was waked here in this house.”

“There aren’t any, really, wakes over here on the Island anymore. They’re, you know, it’s all done in town and funeral procession. But, yeah, Uncle Len was waked in the living room.”

“I can remember Tom telling when his father died. It was the year before we were married because he was waked here, and when it come twelve or one o’clock, he said something about going to bed, and old lady Jones was staying here and, I forget now, some other person that was here and, ‘Oh, well no, we gotta stay up’. And Tom said, ‘I’m not staying up. Nobody’s gonna stay up’. Well, they were gonna, and they stayed up, but in those days they stayed up because of grave robbers and stuff.”