Alvina P. (Osterhaus) Krapfl, 1908-2004

KRAPFL, OSTERHAUS, KRAMER, LANSING, WESTHOFF, TAUKE, MESCHER

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Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) - October 19, 2004

FARLEY, Iowa - Alvina P. Krapfl, 95, of Farley, died Sunday, Oct. 17, 2004, at Shady Rest Care Center, Cascade. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Farley, with the Rev. Daniel Krapfl and the Rev. Gary Krapfl officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Farley. Friends may call from 3 to 9 p.m. today at Reiff Funeral Home, Farley, where there will be a wake service at 3 p.m., and a Catholic Daughters of the Americas Rosary at 4:30 p.m.

Mrs. Krapfl worked at Divine Word College in Epworth for 19 years. She was born on Dec. 11, 1908, in Dyersville, daughter of Anton and Anna (Kramer) Osterhaus. She married Hugo F. Krapfl on Jan. 19, 1932, at St. Francis Xavier Basilica, Dyersville; he died on March 17, 1992. She received her education in the rural Dyersville schools and St. Francis School in Dyersville. She was a member of St. Joseph's Parish, Farley, its Altar and Rosary Society and the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Farley Presentation Court 1460.

Surviving are three sons, the Rev. Daniel Krapfl, of Cascade, Kenneth (Janaan) Krapfl, of Monticello, and the Rev. Gary Krapfl, of Decorah; a daughter, Nancy Krapfl, of Farley; a son-in-law, John Lansing, of New Vienna; a daughter-in-law, Mary Krapfl, of Holiday Island, Ark.; 19 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Sylveria "Sis" Kramer, Isabel Westhoff and Anna Jane Mescher, all of Dyersville; and a sister-in-law, Loretta Krapfl, of Elgin, Ill.

She also was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, one in infancy, and Dick Krapfl, in 2000; three daughters, twins, Joan Krapfl, in 1935, Jean Krapfl, in 1936, and Lois Lansing, in 1998; a granddaughter, Judy Lansing, in 1969; brothers and sisters, Arthur, Viola Quint, Julius, Clarence, Ervin and Elizabeth; brothers-in-law, Tony Quint, Greg Tauke, Elmer Kramer, Ambrose Westhoff and Edwin Mescher; and sisters-in-law, Irene Osterhaus, Leona Osterhaus and Germaine Osterhaus. An Alvina P. Krapfl Memorial Fund has been established.