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| Family of Angeline Gustafson Krafthefer (d. 1997) and Bob Krafthefer |
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| Angeline was born on October 8, 1913 in Sycamore, Ilinois. Angeline was a kind, giving, comical lady who always had a smile and loved to have a good time with people. Angeline graduated high school in Port Wing and moved to Chicago. One of the jobs she had there was in a doctor's home as a mother's helper. She also worked at Campbell's Soup Company and Brach's Candies in Chicago. She would come back to Port Wing and visit in the summertime. |
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| One story that Angeline liked to tell was the time when she was about seven years old, she was put in charge of watching baby Willie. She was watching him outside near the ravine. She turned her head away from Willie for a moment, and the next thing she knew, Willie was tumbling down the ravine. Willie was only about a year old at the time. Angeline ran down to the bottom to come to Willie's recue, thinking the worst, but it turned out that Willie's tumble did him no harm. Angeline eventually moved to Arizona, where she spent the rest of her life. When Angeline and Terry moved to Tucson, she worked for the Tucson Department of Welfare, driving those in need to wherever they had to go. She had a very strong faith in God and made a lot of friends wherever she went. Angeline died in 1997 at the age of 84. |
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| Kerry, Angie's son, has many remembrances of driving to Port Wing. On many Fridays when Mom got off work, she would pack up the kids (Bob, Bev, and Kerry - this was B.T. - before Terry) and take off for Port Wing. Sometimes Bob would go, but rarely. Kerry can recall the cars they had - first a 1935 Ford; then a 1937 Chevrolet, a 1941 Pontiac, and eventually a 1948 Nash. They'd leave for Port Wing on Friday night; arrive early Saturday morning. They tried to average 50 miles per hour. It was 490 miles from Chicago to Port Wing, just under 10 hours (leave by 5 pm and arrive by 5 am). Then back to Chicago on Sunday. They did this Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring. Looking back, Kerry doesn't know how she did it. Work all day and then drove 10 hours - all the way on two-lane highways - no Interstates in the 1940's and early 50's. She just loved Port Wing and all her friends and relatives that lived there. | |||||||||||||
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| Bob Krafthefer, Jr. (d. 1987) Terry Krafthefer Bev Oskvarek Kerry Krafthefer |
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