Tena Murray Krieger 1877-1962

KRIEGER, MURRAY, RAMSEY, MILLER, WALLACE

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 12/9/2011 at 22:42:45

Rites to Be Saturday for Mrs. Krieger
Funeral services for Mrs. Frank J. Krieger, 84, longtime Gruver resident who died yesterday at 10 a.m. at Holy Family Hospital are to be held Saturday at the Gruver Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in East Side Cemetery.

The Rev. L.V. Osborne will officiate at both the 11 a.m. family service and at the 2 o’clock afternoon service.

Friends may call at the Sandin Fuhrman Funeral Home, 206 S. 9th St., from this afternoon until tomorrow morning at which time the body will be taken to the church in Gruver to lie in state until time of the services. The casket will not be opened after the service.

Pallbearers are to be Lester Ramsey, M.P. Graves, Arthur Hageman, Harold Howard, Ed Harvey and Mike Calhan.

Mrs. Krieger had been in failing health for the past year and last Friday was taken to Holy Family Hospital for treatment of a respiratory ailment. Yesterday morning she suffered a sudden heart attack and her death occurred a few minutes later.

Mrs. Krieger had lived in the Gruver area since 1914 when she and Mr. Krieger and their three children moved there from Lockport, Ill. They lived first in Gruver for two years and then moved to a farm on Highway 9 where they continued to live until a short time before Mr. Krieger’s death when they moved to another farm just a mile east of their former home. Mr. Krieger died Oct. 30, 1954.

In the spring of 1957 Mrs. Krieger moved to Gruver and continued to make her home there until time of her death.

She was a longtime and faithful member of the Gruver Presbyterian Church and was active in the women’s work of the church so long as her health permitted.

The former Tena Murray was born Oct. 6, 1877 at Lockport, Ill., the daughter of Thomas and Jessi Murray. She grew to womanhood and received her education in Lockport.

On Dec. 6, 1905 she was united in marriage to Frank J. Krieger and following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Krieger made their home in Lockport until they moved to Gruver.

Mrs. Krieger is survived by her sons, Alan Krieger, rural Estherville; two daughters, Mrs. William (Jessie) Ramsey, rural Estherville, and Mrs. Dick (Betty) Miller, Riverside, Calif.; four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Georgia Wallace, South Pasadena, Calif. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, March 30, 1962)