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Couple Builds Home(Continued from Page 21)tic. New red brick sidewalks have been laid from Sumach Street around the east side of the house to the side door that eventually will be the “front door and on around to the back entrance as well as to the garage.Kruse was born Nov. 14. 1890, in St, Peter, 111. He proved up on two desert claim quarter sections and bought a third located five miles above present Grand Coulee dam. During World War I he served as a carpenter forthe U.S. Housing Corporation atBremerton. Later he entered the Long Beach furniture business, having had a start in that line of work in his father’s furniture store.To Northwest After 10 years in California he returned to the Pacific Northwest. settling in Boise where he established the Oregon Trail Furniture Manufacturing Co., special‘’ing in knotty pine furniture. His products were sold through dealers all over the West including the Hudson’s Bay Co., in Canada. At the height of his career, he had 68 man working for him.At 50. deciding he had had enough indoor life, he sold his business. Farming and building houses have oecumed most nf time since. He onerated the Tum-A-Lum chicken farm lf years, then traded it for a ranch near Madras. Ore. He sold out there and moved to Alaska where one of his two daughters. Mrs. Warren (Della) Colver, resides. Her husband, an attorney, has practiced in Anchorage since he graduated from the Willamette University Law School at Sjalem.In Anchorage he met the former Mrs. Hazel Svrett Bullen. a teacher for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, and they were married in August. 1963.Mrs. Kruse tausht five years at Wrangell and four years at Anchorage, instructing in elementary education to adult native patients in the Alaska Native Hospital.served nearly three years in the WACS with service both in this country and in England.After the 1904 earthquake, the Kruses moved to Sheep Mountain, 213 miles from Anchorage. That summer and the summer of 1965 they built a summer home at Sheep Mountain. Finding winters long in Alaska and expensive for retired folk, they decided to return to a more moderate clime. Remembering the Inland Empire, Kruse told his wife they would visit Walla Walla, Boise and Bend to see which appealed most. Their first stop was Walla Walla and their search for a future home ended right here.Kruse has another daughter, Mrs. Max (Adaline) Young, Oceanside, Calif., and six grandchildren: Ronnie, Cindy andKaren Young and John, Jimmy and Jane Colver, Anchorage.iTuesday To See Special DessertAdd to the Mother-Daughteraffairs planned for the week, a special dessert at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church.A Mission program is being planned by the committee which was ehairmanned by Mrs. Borg-hild Schultz. Serving with her are Mesdames Albert CzyhoM, A1 Jewell, L. A. Bayley and Gary McMiehael.The dessert is sponsored by the A.L.C.W.i(11i!What's DifferentHair StylingBom in East A native of Springfield. Mass., she had taught in Everett, Danvers, Belmont and Springfield, working chiefly wita retarded children. At the Plymouth. N.H. Teachers College she held the rank of assistant professor before going to Alaska.She secured her bachelor’s degree from the Framingham, Mass., Teachers College and her master’s from Boston University. She is a member of Alpha Gamma chapter of Pi Lambda Theta, honor society in education for women. Mrs. Kruse has also had work at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., and the University of Colorado in Boulder. During World War II sheDelores, Joyce, and Paul ha Class Session with a Haiand also one from Austri; what is the latest in the Blt;JANICE Mlt;is back to work happy to set herPURPLE I1434 E. Isaac*last;
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Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Sun, May 05, 1968
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