Charles
"Chuck" L. Krueger
“Chuck” Charles L. Krueger, 72, of Grand Island, formerly of Buena Vista, Colorado died Monday, February 19, 2007 at the Grand Island Nebraska Veterans Home.
Memorials services will be 3:00 p.m. Saturday at the Peace Lutheran
Church in Grand Island. The Reverends William Voelker and Michael Reiners
will officiate.
Mr. Krueger was cremated. All Faiths Funeral Home of Grand Island is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Krueger was born December 10, 1934 at Washington, Kansas the son of Fredrick and Gladys (Good) Krueger. Chuck was raised and received his education in Harrington, Kansas graduating from high school in 1952. He attended Emporia College and served in the National Guard for three years before entering the United States Air Force in 1955. He retired from the military in 1978.
He married Joyce Martens Worley on March 19, 1988. They lived in Beatty, Nevada before making their home in Buena Vista, Colorado. Following his retirement from the Air Force, he worked for Chemical Enterprises for 8 years, and Ford Aerospace at Beatty, NV for 8 years. From Buena Vista they moved to Grand Island in 2006.
Chuck was a member of Peace Lutheran Church and the NRA. He enjoyed the outdoors including down hill skiing, fishing, mountain hiking, and gardening and loved building model ships.
Those left to cherish his memory are his wife Joyce, children, Lisa Krueger and Don Cox of Hastings, NE, Terri Kothe of Longmont, CO, Angie and Kirby Knight of Grand Island, Joan and Randy Crysel of Slidell, LA and Robb and Angie Worley of Hastings, NE, a brother and sister-in-law Donald and Barbara Krueger of Smithville, MO, a sister LaVeta Zhantial of Shawnee, Kansas, sixteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
His parents, brother Fred and sister Patricia preceded him in death.
Memorials are suggested to the church.