- JANESVILLE - Emma A. (HOOD) KRAUS, 85, of St.
Elizabeth's Nursing Home, died Jan.
- 29, 2004, at the home.
- Funeral services will be at noon Monday at First Presbyterian
Church, 17 N. Jackson St., with
- the Rev. Bruce A. Jones officiating. Interment will be in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
- Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Henke-Clarson
Funeral Home, 1010 N. Wright
- Road.
- She was born Sept. 10, 1918, in Marshfield, the daughter
of Eugene D. and Emma (LUEPKE)
- HOOD. She graduated from Marshfield High School in
1937. She married Edward A. KRAUS on Sept. 10, 1940. He
preceded her in death on Feb. 24, 1960.
- She moved to Janesville in 1955. She ran a rooming house
for several years and then worked at
- Caravilla Nursing Home for 18 years. She loved her frog collection
and spending time with her family. In her spare time you could
find her in her flower garden and feeding the neighborhood birds.
She attended her 50th HOOD Family Reunion this past August.
- Emma is survived by five children, Judy (Paul) FORESMAN,
Springfield, Mo., Lynn KRAUS,
- Sherry SHINE and Rick KRAUS, all of Janesville,
and Jeffrey (Wendy) KRAUS, Milton; eight grandchildren,
Beth FORESMAN and Keri CRON, Springfield, Mo.,
Jim NORDENG, Beloit, Stephanie (Ken) CHAMPION,
Janesville, Joe (Peggy) NORDENG, Littleton, Colo., Jody
KRAUS, Milton, Eric (Ronae) KRAUS, Great Lakes,
and Shannon KRAUS; 10 great-grandchildren Aryal, Caleb,
Austin, Leah, Ethan, Hunter, Tianna, Isaac, Jacob and Logan.
She is further survived by six sisters, Genevieve TAUSCHEK,
Dorothy LEFFEL, Carol DAVIS, Grace SCHROUFNAGEL,
Jessie COLLINS and Nettie CARTER; and several sisters-in-law,
brothers-in-law, cousins, nieces and nephews.
- She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, Edith
and Edna; and two brothers, George
- and Eugene.
- The family would like to pay a special thank you to the people
from Hospice and St. Elizabeth's
- for their heartfelt attention and care given to Emma and
her family.
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