KRUKOW, Randi Jo (nee Johnson) 1953-2005

KRUKOW, JOHNSON, GRINSTEAD

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/28/2009 at 11:37:31

Randi Jo Krukow

RICEVILLE, IOWA — Randi Jo Krukow, 52, of Riceville passed away on Monday (July 4, 2005) at the Osage Hospital Hospice Unit after a long battle with cancer.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Riceville United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Thelma Colorado Subramanian and the Rev. Michael Carey officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Riceville.

Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Lindstrom Funeral Home in Riceville.

Randi Jo Johnson was born to William and Ruth (Grinstead) Johnson on May 23, 1953, in Osage, Iowa.

She lived and attended schools in many places growing up while her father was in the Army.

She graduated from Sumner Community High School in 1971. Randi then attended LaJames Cosmetology School in Cedar Falls graduating in 1973.

On Aug. 29, 1975, Randi married Arnold Krukow at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa.

They made their home in Riceville, Iowa, where she and her husband have lived since. Randi and Arnie had three sons: Jamie, Joseph and Jacob.

In 1979, Randi started her own beauty shop next to her home in Riceville so she could be home and close to her boys. She thoroughly enjoyed being close to her sons, going to their school and sporting events.

In 1995 she got her "perfect job" as the public librarian at the Riceville Library. She loved her work and being with all her friends at the library.

Randi took pleasure in her times with her family and especially her grandchildren which she adored. Even after the boys were married and had families of their own, she enjoyed going to their ball games and camping with her extended family and friends.

Randi also got pleasure tending to her flowers and yard, visiting with neighbors, reading, crocheting and the vacations that she and Arnie were able to take. Randi was forever the optimist, always enjoying and wanting to help others.

Left to cherish her memory are her parents, Bill and Ruth Johnson of Riceville; her husband, Arnie, of Riceville; son, Jamie and Tara (Sweeney) of Riceville, son, Joe and Sarah (Schroeder) of Osage; son Jake and Amber (Watt) of Des Moines; her five grandchildren: Joshua, Jim Bob, Brianna, Emily and Cael; her brother, Richard and Teresa Johnson, of Cedar Falls; her mother and father-in-law, Mavis and Clayton Burgart of New Hampton; as well as many aunts, uncles, cousins and her many, many friends.

Randi was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Frank Johnson in 1962; her paternal grandmother, Velma Johnson in 1988; her maternal grandfather in 1973; her maternal grandmother, Corinne Grinstead, in 1986; and her father-in-law, Arthur Krukow in 1979.

Lindstrom Funeral Home, (641) 985-2242.

[Globe Gazette - July 5, 2005]