BRINGOLF, Caroline Kruger 1899-1996

BRINGOLF, NITSCHKE, KRUGER, BLACK

Posted By: Jeannine Peterson (email)
Date: 3/13/2012 at 13:03:01

Caroline K. Bringolf, 97, of 74 Parkridge Drive, Mason City, passed away Monday, July 1, 1996, at the Oakview Care Center in Durand, WI.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at the St. Paul Lutheran Church, Mason City, with the Rev. James B. Norem officiating. Burial was in the Grafton Cemetery, Grafton.

Caroline K. Bringolf was born January 14, 1899, in Grafton, IA, the daughter of Fred and Minnie (Nitschke) Kruger. While Caroline was quite young, her mother was widowed and married J.J. Bringolf.

Caroline graduated from Osage High School and attended Iowa State Teachers College (later U.N.I.) in Cedar Falls. She married Glen H. Bringolf on June 18, 1917, at Fort Dodge, IA.

In 1923, the Bringolfs moved to California; they migrated back and forth several times between that state and Iowa, returning to Grafton in 1938, where Glen was a banker and Caroline worked as a teller.

In the late 1940's, they moved to Mason City, where Caroline entered a career of managing two farms inherited from her mother. She continued in farm management and investment until ill health dictated her retirement in 1994.

Caroline was a world traveler, visiting Europe, New Zealand, Hawaii and Alaska, and she loved playing bridge with friends.

She was active in several civic and charitable organizations, including St. Paul Lutheran Church, Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Eastern Star, and the American Legion Auxilliary.

She is survived by two grandsons, Ross Black, Lawrence KS, and Bryce (Kathleen) Black, Arkansaw, WI, and three great-grandsons, Lorin, Christopher, and Geoffrey Black, Arkansaw, WI.

Caroline was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Glen Bringolf; a son John Bringolf; a daughter, Virginia Bringolf Black; and a grandson, William T. Black, Jr.

Mason City Globe Gazette July 1996