Kruse, Claus John 1911-2001

KRUSE, FRERICHS, WESTHOFF, POPKEN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/6/2008 at 14:29:04

NAME OF DECEASED & AGE: Claus John Kruse, 90, of LeMars
CAUSE OF DEATH:
DATE of DEATH: Tuesday, March 13, 2001
PLACE of DEATH: at Floyd Valley Hospital, LeMars, Iowa
DATE of BIRTH: Jan. 26, 1911
PLACE of BIRTH: in Washington township, Plymouth Co. Iowa
PARENTS: son of Dick and Flora Katherine (Frerichs) Kruse
SPOUSE & DATE of 1st MARRIAGE: Doretta Westhoff, Nov. 29, 1934; The couple made their home on the Kruse family farm. His wife died July 18, 1957.
PLACE OF 1st MARRIAGE: in Grant Township, Plymouth Co. Iowa
SPOUSE & DATE of 2nd MARRIAGE: Irene Popken, June 14, 1959. The couple made their home on the Kruse Century farm until moving into LeMars in October 1999.
SURVIVORS: include his wife; two daughters and their husbands, Dorothy Ann and Fred Goettsch of Sioux City and Lennice and Don Farnham of Hillsboro, Ore.; a son and his wife, Duane and Sharon Popken of LeMars; eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and a sister, Clara Meyer.
PRECEDED in DEATH by: an infant brother, Harm; a brother, Harm; and infant sister, Antja; and a sister, Anke Margaret Jelken.
PLACE of BURIAL: St John Evangelical Cemetery, rural Akron, Iowa
NEWSPAPER SOURCE & DATE: The Sioux City Journal

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