KRUEGER, Betty L.

KRUEGER, STEWART, CANNON, SHERBONDY, NELSON, TEMPLE, BORDWELL

Posted By: Norma Jennings (email)
Date: 2/10/2007 at 12:57:41

Washinton Evening Journal, Monday, Jan 22, 2007.

Betty L. Krueger, 80, of Washington, died Friday, Jan 19, 2007 in her cottage in the United Presbyterian Home of cancer.

Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan 23, in the Swedesburg Lutheran Church with the Rev. Phil Borleske officiating. The body has been cremated. Visitation began at noon today in the Jones-Eden Funeral Home in Washington where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 .m. Burial will be in the Swedesburg Lutheran Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Hospice of Washington County or the Swedesburg Lutheran Church.

Mrs. KRUEGER was born Sept. 25, 1926 on a farm northwest of Washington, the daughter of Cloyce and Mary (CANNON) STEWART. She married Leroy KRUEGER on Aug. 26, 1949.

Mrs. KRUEGER graduated from Washington High School and Cornell College and taught in Byron, Minn for two years. After her marriage she and her husband lived on a farm near Wyman from 1953 until her husband's death in 1979. Mrs. KRUEGER then moved to Wapello where she lived until 2001 when she moved into a cottage at the UP Home. She worked as a teachers aide in the Winfield schools. After earning a master's degree at the University of Iowa, she became a learning disabilites teacher in the Louisa-Muscatine School District from 1976 to 1991.

Mrs. KRUEGER was an active member of the Swedesburg Lutheran Church where she was a member of the church council, and was current president and former treasurer of the women's group WELCA. She was a member of many committees including social ministry, mission action sewing group and smorgasbord committee, a Sunday school teacher. Vacation Bible School teacher, greeter,a nd usher. She was the congregational representative on THRIVENT Financial for Lutherans Group.

Mrs. KRUEGER was an active member in many things,. In both Wapello and Washington she was a hospice volunteera nd a member of the Friends of the Library. In Wapello, she worked with the Henry County Pace Coalition, a group that helps abused women, the Nursing Hme Care Review Committee, Habitat for Humanity and the Louisa County Retired Teachers' Assoication. In Washington she was a volunteer teacher's aide in Stewart School from 2001 until a few weeks before her death and a volunteer teacher of Kirkwood Learning Center. She was UP Home volunteer. She recorded books for the Iowa Commission for the Blind. In 2005 she was a co-founder of Pathways to Peace. She was active in the Democratic Party, serving many times as precinct chairman at party caucuses. She was a member of the Garden and Bible departments of the Washington Fortnightly Club. She enjoyed reading, knitting, gardening, cooking, traveling and playing bridge.

Surviving are her daughters Beverly SHERBONDY and husband Duane of Burlington, and Karen NELSON of Kirkland, Wash.; sons, August KRUEGER and wife Janet of Rochester, Minnn and Karl KRUEGER and wife Patty of Crawfordsville; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchild; sisters, Beaulah TEMPLE and Esther BORDWELL of Washington and a brother, Theodore STEWART of Washington.

SHe was preceded in death by her husband; two sisters; and one grandson.

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