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RIDENOUR, Katharine M. (Kruempel) 1920-2018

RIDENOUR, KRUEMPEL, MEISGEIER

Posted By: K.L. Kittleson
Date: 5/11/2018 at 19:36:20

Ridenour, Katharine

Services:
Saturday, May 19, 2018 at the Kearns Funeral Service, Kimball Chapel

Cemetery:
Garden of Memories Cemetery

Memorials:
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Waterloo

Biography--

Katharine M. Ridenour, 97, of Papillion, Nebraska, and formerly Waterloo, Iowa, died at the Cottages at Hillcrest Country Estates in Papillion, on Wednesday, May 9, 2018.

Katharine was born on September 7, 1920, in Arlington, Iowa, the daughter of Herman & Johanna (Meisgeier) Kruempel.

She graduated from Arlington High School in 1938.

Katharine married Mark William Ridenour on August 25, 1946, in Arlington. He died March 25, 2006.

She worked at a grocery store in Manchester until moving to Waterloo. There, she tended the soda fountains and lunch counter at the SunMart. When it became Adam’s Grocery she worked in the meat and bakery departments into her 70’s.

Katharine was a longtime member of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, where she enjoyed baking cookies for the Community Meals Program.

Survived by her daughter, Vivian (Robert) Keckler, of Omaha; two grandchildren, Kimberly (Thomas) Nelson of Roy, WA and Chad (Cindy) Keckler of Lincoln, NE; four great-grandchildren, Collin (Kelsey) Nelson, Kodi (Sawyer Lobdell) Nelson, Lauren Keckler and Alexis Keckler; and one great-great-grandchild, Kasen Lobdell.

Preceded in death by her parents; husband, Mark; four brothers, Carl, Walter, Robert & Harold Kruempel; and a sister, Rosalind Engel.

SOURCE: Kearns funeral home website


 

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