5/1/30-4/7/97

Irene Kruthoff, 66 of Arion, Iowa died Monday, April 7, 1997 at the Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Dennison.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Zion Lutheran Church in Dennison. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. Thursday at Huebner Funeral Home in Dennison with family present from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. that evening.

She was the mother of Mark Kruthoff of Blair.

Kruthoff was born May 1, 1930 to Carl William and Ernestine Sieckmann Schmidt in St. Louis, Mo. She was baptized May 14, 1930 and was confirmed April 18, 1943 at the Zion Lutheran Church in Dennison, Iowa. She received her elementary education at the Grant Township School and Zion Lutheran School in Dennison. She graduated from the Dennison High School in 1948 and continued her education at the Iowa Lutheran Hospital, receiving a registered nurse degree in 1951. She received her nurse practitioner-ship in 1976 from the University of Colorado.

On Dec. 26, 1954, she married Dale Kruthoff at the Zion Lutheran Church in Dennison. They lived in Dennison until 195o7, when they moved to a farm near Arion.

She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church.

Survivors are her husband, Dale of Arion; three daughters, Karen, Cynthia and Kristine, all of Omaha; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Carl of Dennison and Mark and Paula of Blair; two grandchildren, Sarah Kruthoff and Ashlee Kruthoff; two step-grandchildren, Josh Biffar and Hedi Green; a sister and brother-in-law, Barbara and Earl Petersen, Lake Park, Minn.; her mother-in-law, Marie Kruthoff of Dennison; one brother-in-law and his wife, David and Georgia Kruthoff of Bay City, Texas and three nephews and five nieces.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~