KRUGER, Grace 1920-1999

KRUGER, MULLER, KALKWARF

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Date: 3/8/2017 at 10:34:16

Grace Kruger, 79

Grace Kruger, of Grundy Center, died Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999, at the Grundy County Memorial Hospital in Grundy Center of natural causes. She attained the age of 79 years, seven months and 18 days.

Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, at the Pleasant Valley Reformed Church in rural Holland. Burial followed in the church cemetery. A memorial fund has been established.

Grace was born March 2, 1920, in Pleasant Valley Township rural Parkersburg the daughter of Jelsche and Dena (Kalkwarf) Muller. On Oct. 14, 1940, she was united in marriage to George Kruger at the Salem Lutheran Church, rural Parkersburg. They farmed in the Pleasant Valley and Beaver townships for many years. They retired in 1984 and made their home in Grundy Center.

Grace is survived by four sons, Rodger and his wife Marlene Kruger of Cedar Falls, Roland and his wife Gloria Kruger of Grundy Center, Delmar Kruger of Parkersburg and Delroy and his wife Diana Kruger of Grundy Center; seven grandchildren, Dean, Rhonda, Staci, Steven, Derek, Jared and Stefanie Kruger; and two brothers and their wives, John E. and Harriet Muller of Grundy Center and Elmer and Harriet Muller of Holland; three sisters, Francis Geiken of Ackley, Lenora and husband Henry Kromminga of Aplington and Dena Doreen and husband Richard Schlamp of New Hartford.

She was preceded in death by her husband, George in 1996; her parents; one daughter, Janola Jill Kruger in 1978; and a brother, Klaas Muller.

The Engelkes-Abels Funeral Home in Grundy Center was in charge of the arrangements.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 28 October 1999, pg 3