Velma Mae (Hughes) KRAUSE

KRAUSE, HUGHES, CLARK, MYERS, HEJLIK, TRIPP, HARLE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/23/2007 at 23:23:42

Mason City Globe Gazette
April 2, 2002.

Velma M. Krause, 91, of Kanawha, passed away Saturday (March 30, 2002) at the Kanawha Community Home in Kanawha. Funeral services for Velma M. Krause will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Kanawha, with Pastor Susan Detwiler officiating. Burial will take place in the Amsterdam Township Cemetery in Kanawha. Visitation for Velma M. Krause will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Ewing Dugger Funeral Home in Kanawha and one hour prior to services at the church.

Velma Mae Krause of Kanawha was born near Corwith, on Sept. 7, 1910. Her parents were Robert William and Mathilda Clark Hughes. She grew up in Hancock County on various farms and attended country schools around Corwith, Stilson and Britt. Velma attended high school in Britt and graduated from Goldfield High School in 1929. She attended Britt Junior College for two years as well as attending summer school in Cedar Falls. She taught for two years in a country school. Velma Mae Hughes married Gerhart Herman Krause on Nov. 18, 1934, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They made their home on various farms until they bought 80 acres near Kanawha. They raised their six children in the Kanawha area. Velma was always interested in education and reading was a main pasttime. She enjoyed reading books, magazines and especially newspapers. Other hobbies included sewing, quilting, gardening, tending flowers, cooking, photography and nature watching. She also enjoyed traveling and some of her fondest memories were her overnight bus trips and elder hostel trips for weeklong stays at various colleges. She recalled her last train trip across Canada from Vancouver to Niagara Falls. The pinnacle of her travels was going to her parental homelands of Wales and Scotland following a visit to London, England. She was a member of the Kanawha United Methodist Church and UMW and served in many circles. She also enjoyed Bible studies as well as teaching children and adult Sunday school classes. Other clubs she belonged to were The Builders Club, Country Women's Club, ABC Club of Kanawha, and County Cousins trips to Mississippi. She had a life membership to the Liberty School Museum and, with a group of teachers and former teachers, helped relocate and establish it as a museum. Husband, family, and church were first and foremost all of her adult years. Her Christian faith grew steadily and a favorite remark was, "I am always becoming and striving for spiritual maturity. God is always beside me in steadfast love."

Velma is survived by her six children and their spouses, twins, Jerold Krause and Hoa, of Kansas City, Kan., and Joanne Myers and husband, Don, of Austin, Texas, Duane Krause and wife, Sharon, of Britt, Max Krause and wife, Carolyn, of Kanawha, Bette Hejlik and husband, Arnold, of Rockwell, Donald Krause and wife, Carol, of East Brunswick, N.J., 20 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandsons; and extended family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Gerhart; infant twin daughters, Marian and Martha; five brothers, Amos, John, Ralph, Kenneth and Glenn; two sisters, Myrna Tripp and Mary Harle; three grandchildren; and a daughter-in-law, Maryann Krause. Ewing Dugger Funeral Home, (641) 762-3211.