Eloise A. Kruse

Eloise Arden Kruse, one of three children of Jesse Myrea (Stevens) Price and Carl Ramon Price, was born on July 24, 1928 in Sioux City, Iowa. When Ellie was five, the family moved to Omaha, Nebraska where she attended school. Ellie graduated from Central High School in 1946 and then attended the Colorado Women's College and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Ellie worked in a florist shop in Omaha where through friends she eventually met her future husband.
Ellie and Robert Edward Kruse of Silver City, Iowa were married at the Little Brown Church in the Vale at Nashua, Iowa on September 13, 1958. They made their home on the farm near Silver City and were blessed with their daughter, Karen. Ellie enjoyed her role as a homemaker and mother and became very active in the Girl Scouts. Ellie and Bob moved into Malvern in 1965. Ellie briefly worked as a receptionist for Dr. Melvin Scheffel. Ellie along with her good friend, Crystal Hites, volunteered to come to the Hertz home where they faithfully, for a year, cared for Clayton Hertz who suffered from multiple sclerosis.
Ellie enjoyed working in her garden and loved to go fishing, but her greatest joy came from her grandchildren and her great grandchild, Addison.
Ellie and Bob had been married 48 years when Ellie died at the Manor of Malvern Care Center on February 11, 2007 at the age of 78 years, 6 months, and 17 days. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother Ramon Price; sister Marvis Price; and nephew Winston Price.
Ellie is survived by her husband Robert Kruse of Malvern; daughter Karen Sinner and husband Perry of Macedonia, IA; grandchildren Megan Newberry, her husband Sean, and their daughter Addison of Silver City, IA, Courtney Sinner and fiancA(c) Adam Buthe of Sioux City, IA, Devin Sinner of Ames, IA; sisters-in-law Shirley Price and Rita Price of Omaha, NE, Bonnie Mansfield and her husband R.D. "Butch" of Malvern; nieces and nephews; other relatives and friends.