Mrs. HENRY H. (Amanda Meyer) KRUSE 1887-1976

MEYER, KRUSE, TAYLOR, COLGROVE, KOEHLER, PAPPAS

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Date: 4/19/2005 at 21:06:36

Mrs. HENRY H. (Amanda Meyer) KRUSE

Amanda Meyer, only daughter and eldest of five children was born July 31, 1887 to August and Minnie Meyer of Postville, Iowa. She was baptized and confirmed in German at the Lutheran Church.

She was united in marriage to Henry H. Kruse at her parent's farm, in Allamakee County, November 28, 1907. The first five years of their marriage they farmed in Iowa.

In 1913, they purchased land one mile north of Lily and built a dairy farm. After the death of her husband in 1944, she and her youngest son, Carl, farmed two more years until she went to Monona, Iowa to care for her aged Mother.

The next 18 years she lived with her son, Carl, in Seattle and Minneapolis, where her health failed; she lived several years with her daughter, Eva at Princeton, Minn. From there she spent her last four years at the Grandview Christian Retirement Home at Cambridge, Minn.

She passed away at the Cambridge Home, December 24, 1976, at the age of 89. She was an active member of the Lily Lutheran Church for 30 years, active in the Ladies Aid and taught Sunday School.

She is survived by six children: four daughters, Mrs. Joseph (Eva) Taylor of Princeton, Minn; Mrs. Ralph (Violetta) Colgrove of Mott, North Dakota; Mrs. Walter (Erma) Koehler of Inver Grove Heights, Minn; Mrs. James (Dolores) Pappas of Robbinsdale, Minn; two sons, Walter and Carlyle Kruse of Minneapolis, 25 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandson, and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Orel (Marvel) Kruse of Engelwood, Colo.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Henry H. Kruse, son Marvel; four brothers, Gustav, Ben, Ervin and Walter, and by sons-in-law, Ralph Colgrove and Joseph Taylor.

Funeral services were held Monday, December 27, 1976 at the Wyanette Free Church of rural Princeton, Minn., with Rev. Isaac Anderson officiating. A memorial service was held at the Lily Lutheran Church, Tuesday, December 28, at 1 P.M. with Rev. Hobart Skilbred officiating. A granddaughter, Sherry Koehler, sang accompanied by Mrs. Esther Olson at Wyanette; and Mrs. Reuben Ihrke was soloist at the Lily service, with Mrs. Rodney Kjosa pianist.

Pallbearers at the one or both services were grandsons, Bruce and Dean Colgrove, John Taylor, Delaine, Glenn, Dallas, Gary and James Kruse and Lester Carlson.

Interment was in Hillside Cemetery, Lily, South Dakota.

- contributed by Margo Harbridge