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Susan C. Krueger, 78, Mohall, died Thursday, May 25, 2023, at a Mohall nursing home.

Susan was born December 4, 1944, to Alfred and Emma (Butler) Gunderson in Kansas City, MO, at their home in south Kansas City.  She lived in a one bedroom home with her parents and four siblings.  Susan was raised in a very faith-filled home in the church now known as Community Of Christ.
Her mother helped start one of the church's congregations in their own living room.  Susan would invite neighbors and friends to come hear the gospel in their home every Sunday and sometimes during the week.  This created the foundation for Susan's future as one of the Lord's servants.
Her siblings were so far apart in age, but because of the faith-based raising, they were one of the strongest and closest you would ever see.  Susan's friends included her many nieces and nephews, and one in particular, her side kick and niece, Diane (Gunderson) Werner.  They spent so much time together that they were even inseparable when they were older and with children. Man the old Chevy Impala, filled with so many children, and Susan and Diane cackling so loud at whatever conversation they were having. Their laughter was so loud and so enjoyable it made everyone around them stop and stare and even laugh themselves.
Susan also  loved singing.  She had such an angelic voice and was a part of her school choir.  Susan graduated from Center High School in Kansas City in 1963.  She went to work at Peterson's Manufacturing where she met the love of her life, Raymond H. Krueger, around 1967.
After a couple years of courtship, they tied the Knot on October 18, 1969.  She and her husband finally settled down after two children in South Kansas City, in the Ruskin Hills Neighborhood where she had one more baby and it was a girl.  After some years working outside the home she decided to stay home and start up a daycare in her home for the children in the neighborhood.  She did this for about 12 years until she started working out of the home again in 1987 for Sears Robuck and Co., she also worked at other retail shops.
Around 1992, Susan started working for a local bank and retired in 1999 as a Personal Banker/Teller.
Susan definitely had a life filled with joy and sorrow.  Many challenges came her way with her health when she found her first two cancers.  In 1995 she battled breast cancer and uterine cancer.  With her large and loving family by her side, she would win that battle.  After years of relief she was hit again with parotid gland cancer, and a year after that, another battle with metastatic breast cancer.  After long years passed, she finally was in remission.  Susan still continued a very active life with her husband and loved going to movies, out to dinners, walks at the lake or shopping and spending time with Ray and her grandchildren.  While out helping her husband around the yard, Susan had an accident that caused her current condition.  Susan ended up with a fractured neck that never healed, and after two years the doctors feared the worst and sent her in for a surgery that seemed promising.  After one month, it showed that the surgery was not as successful and Susan started showing paralysis.  She was sent through a second life-saving surgery to fix the damage caused by bone fragments that compromised her spinal cord.  Even then, Susan with the support of her love, Ray, and family, she overcame the impossible.  After the second surgery and two months rehab, Susan and Ray moved to Mohall, to be closer to her daughter and continue their care.  She spent six months fighting to walk again.  It was her wish to do this for her love.  She was always so faithful during all this and so hopeful that they would be able to overcome these new challenges.  Ray was so overcome with joy to witness Susan walking again.  He clapped and shouted with joy.  He looked like a kid in a candy store.  It was so exciting.  Susan was so happy that she was able to achieve this and provide such joy to Ray. Susan was hit again with sorrow and sadness when she heard her foster granddaughter passed away.  The same day her husband was rushed to the hospital.  She sat by her husband's side for a whole week never leaving him, praying daily.  After a week, Susan lost Ray to a year-long battle with cancer.  After all this, Susan continued to show progress and stayed with her daughter, son-in-law and her family.  She came to love her new home and surroundings.  She had happy years and shared them well with so many.

Susan enjoyed baking pies and always had the best during the holidays.  She enjoyed singing while she cooked.  She also would sing while she cleaned around the house.  She would pray over and sing to soothe her children whenever they were sick or hurt.  Family enjoy watching her and her sisters battle it out during holidays or at family gatherings, playing rummikub and other similar games.  Her favorite soothing snack and activity was some potato chips, green grapes and a Sprite while playing solitaire or watching a good Hallmark show.  Maybe throw some green olives in there too or pickles (sweet pickles).  Susan was called home to her Heavenly Father on May 25th, 2023.  She will be dearly missed by all her loved ones.
Family:  children, Raymond M. (Amy) Krueger, and Jason A. Krueger; daughter, Janie (Anton) Brekhus; grandchildren, Samuel Krueger, Karisa and Jenna Krueger, Cassidie Krueger, Collin "Drew"  (Hayley) Krueger, Alexia (fiancé, Cody Diestler) Simmons Krueger, Taryn (fiancé, Steven Bovia), Kaden and Chayton Brekhus, Tyler Cox; step grandchildren, Adam and Jered Littleton; great-granchildren, Henley May and Corbin Drew Krueger, Teagan Ray Jones, Jax, Kitra and Azula Diestler; and numerous loving nieces and nephews.
Susan was preceded in death by:  her parents; husband, Raymond "Ray" Krueger; brother, Marvin Gunderson; sisters, Betty Woods, Barbara Morcha and Helen Henderson; niece, Diane (Gunderson) Werner; nephew, Eddie Henderson; foster granddaughter, Elizabeth Humphry.
Graveside Service:  11:00 a.m., Friday, June 9, 2023, at the Mohall Community Cemetery.
Friends may sign the online guestbook at brosefuneralhome.com.