Grover Blaire KRUGLER

KRUGLER, GROVER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/6/2010 at 12:00:48

BELMOND - Grover B. Krugler, 88, of Belmond, a native of the Rockwell, Iowa area, died Monday (Feb. 1, 2010) at the Belmond Medical Center, Belmond. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010, at the Belmond United Church of Christ Congregational located on West Main Street in Belmond, with the Rev. Donna Buckman officiating. Burial will be in the Belmond Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9:15 a.m. until the time of the service Saturday at church. Those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial in Grover's name may wish to consider the Belmond UCC Congregational Church or to their own choice.

Grover Blaire Krugler was born on a farm near Rockford, Iowa, the son of Clarence Wm. Krugler and Elsie (Grover) Krugler, on Oct. 9, 1921. He attended Walker Country School #5, east of Rockford, until becoming ill with rheumatic fever in 1936. He helped his parents on the farm when his health allowed. In 1957, he moved with his parents to Nora Springs, where he lived and became a member of the Methodist Church there in 1960. Grover farmed the land of a small farm near Nora Springs that he inherited from an uncle. After the death of his father in 1961, Grover stayed with his mother at Nora Springs. He sold the farm and bought a home on Highway 69 North of the RV campground in Belmond, in the early 1980's after his mother became ill and was a resident of the Belmond Health Care Center. Later he sold his home and moved to the Belmond Community Apartments and had lived in the McBurney Apartments there since that time. Grover had become a member of the Belmond United Church of Christ and had thoroughly enjoyed his times spent there and the fellowship and friendship of the members of its congregation. He had so looked forward to the opening of the new church this past year and had been to the inaugural service there. Grover loved to fish, whenever fishing was available to him and had been on many a fishing excursion to lakes in the area. He loved to get in his scooter and check out the town and had became very attached to the Belmond Community and it's citizens. Grover always had a smile for all, a wave, a wonderful and heartwarming laugh and seemed to enjoy his life. He had a terrific sense of humor. Grover had also been quite proud of his 1979 Monte Carlo with T-roof back in his driving days. Grover was very close to his brother, Robert, and his family, and enjoyed the family "get-togethers". Grover was always up for visitors and looked forward to spending time in the presence of others. He looked forward to trips to visit relatives in southern Iowa and in Stevens Point, Wis., and to wherever they lived. Grover loved stories of family history and days gone by. He loved animals, especially loved watching and playing with cats and dogs and enjoyed the outdoors. The farm he used to operate near Nora Springs is now a public nature area named in his honor called "Grover's Meadow."

Grover is survived by his brother, Robert "Bob" Krugler, and his wife "Marge" of Berryville, Ark.; and numerous nieces and nephews and friends. He was preceded in death by his maternal and paternal grandparents, his parents, four uncles, an aunt, and a niece. Andrews Funeral Home.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
February 5, 2010