Kroll, Henrietta L. 1914-2003

KROLL, HAYS, LUEHR

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 3/20/2009 at 14:47:19

Henrietta L. Kroll, 89, of Sioux City died suddenly Thursday, Sept. 25, 2003, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at the funeral home.

Mrs. Kroll was born May 19, 1914, in Le Mars, Iowa, the daughter of David Henry and Sophie Louise (Luehr) Hays.

She married Ralph W. Kroll on Dec. 24, 1935, in Correctionville, Iowa. He died Nov. 17, 1971, in Sioux City.

She was a third generation member of the Baha'i Faith. She was a world citizen. On her 80th birthday, she was privileged to visit the holy place in Israel. She attended the dedication of the Baha'i House of Worship in Panama in 1971. In 1992, she attended the second Baha'i World Congress where a quilt block she made was part of a quilt display. She also visited the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette, Ill., several times.

She enjoyed sewing and reading. She was an avid Esperantist and enjoyed corresponding with people all over the world in both English and Esperanto.

She is survived by nine children, Janet Johnson of Moses Lake, Wash., Leonard Kroll of rural Sioux City, Ralph Wayne Kroll of Lebanon, Ore., Marjorie Baker of Memphis, Tenn., Kathryn and her husband, Albert Verbrugh of Sioux City, David Kroll and his wife, Pamela of Sioux City, Rosemary and her husband, Bill Goebel of Hinton, Iowa, Kevin Kroll and his wife, Jerine of Hinton, and Judi Swanson of Klamath, Calif.; a daughter-in-law, Maxine Kroll of Sergeant Bluff; 19 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Loren; a sister, Frieda Elam; and an infant great-grandchild.

Pallbearers will be her grandchildren.

In her memory, please consider performing an act of service to a neighbor or friend, in her name, as that is how she lived her life.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal
~Part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection