Laura K. Kranz

Laura Kranz MUSCATINE, Iowa #45;- Laura K. Kranz, 94, 3440 Mulberry Ave., formerly of the Drury-Reynolds Township, Ill., died Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2000, at Unity Hospital. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. The Rev. Paul Brooks of the Providence Baptist Church will officiate. Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Kenn Kranz, Shelby Kranz, Jeff Kranz, Bill Kranz, Steve Hampton, Rock Terrill, Rod Terrill, and Rick Masters. Burial will be in the Drury-Reynolds Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Drury-Reynolds Cemetery. Mrs. Kranz was born on Feb. 25, 1906, in Drury Township, the daughter of Walter and Leah Sutter Ziegenhorn. She married Graydon "Sport" Kranz in Muscatine on June 6, 1925. She was a member of the Providence Baptist Church and was a member of the Buffalo Prairie Eastern Star, Survivors include two sons, Ivan Kranz and his wife, Arlette, of Muscatine, and Graydon Kranz Jr. and his wife, Marilyn, of Reynolds, Ill.; three daughters, Laura Ann Hampton and her husband, Gary, of New Boston, Ill., Dorothy Terrill also of New Boston, and Lind...[more]

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chroeder of Owensboro, Ky.; 16 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; and one brother, Orville Ziegenhorn and his wife, Marcella, of Davenport. She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband, Graydon Kranz Sr., on Jan. 1, 1984.