Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, at Golgotha Lutheran Church in rural Wausa.

Reverend Terry Makelin officiated, with burial in Golgotha Lutheran Cemetery. Visitation was one hour prior to the service.

Mrs. Krohn died Wednesday, Feb.

5, 2025, at the Bloomfield Good Samaritan Society at the age of 91.

Brockhaus Funeral Home in Wausa is in charge of arrangements.

Hazel Irene (Lederer) Krohn was born Aug. 24, 1933, to Marion and Frieda (Westerbeck) Lederer near Creighton. Hazel graduated from Plainview High School and worked at various jobs including caring for her future mother-in-law, Auguste Krohn. On May 29, 1960, she married Herman Krohn at Golgotha Lutheran Church in Wausa, and they were blessed with three sons, Frederick, Robert, and Bradley. Hazel was a homemaker, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and hard-working farm wife. She always told people she ruled her three sons with an iron thumb, but we may have recollections of a slightly different approach to discipline. When we were young, it seemed like she had a radar system, and she could see things transpiring before we realized what was going on.

TV viewing was tightly controlled; not because we had a remote for the TV but because she could get from her chair to the TV and change the channel before we knew what we weren't supposed to watch. Hazel helped Her- man with field work despite catching some grief from her sons about how crooked her trips across the field with a tractor and disc were and how dinner or supper were overcooked.

During the annual chicken butchering process, her hands turned into a flurry of activity, plucking feathers like there was no tomorrow. Those same hands made scraps of cloth into beautiful quilts. And she could and did make do with very little – always putting others before any personal wants she may have had. She could turn windfall apples into the best-tasting apple pie around. Hazel was a longtime member of Golgotha Lutheran Church, the Ladies' Aid, LWML, and quilting group, and she taught Sunday School and served as Sunday School Superintendent.

Survivors include her sons and their wives, Frederick and Tonya Krohn of Wausa, Robert and Gayle Krohn of Wausa, and Bradley and Lynelle Krohn of Ponca; grandchildren and step-grandchildren, Bryar (Taylor) Krohn, Alacia (Trent) Braun, Levi Krohn (Tiffany Plimpton), Erin (Chuck) Thorn, Chelsey (Cole) Moon, Michael (Rachel) Kracht, and Kylee Kracht; great-grandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren, Ruger and Sage Krohn, Blaire and Malia Braun, Parker and Oakley DeBilzan, Briggs Moon, Nevaeda Kracht and two more on the way; bonus grandchild, Autumn Crosgrove; brother, Howard (Dixie) Lederer; sister-in-law, Connie Lederer; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; father and mother- in-law, Gustav and Auguste (Dibbert) Krohn; brothers, Cecil, Dale (Janice and Janet), and Charles (Bonnie) Lederer; sister, Rose Schuett (Virgil Anderson); sisters-in-law, Ida (Rudy) Mueller, Olga (Emil) Blunck, Dora (Harry) Kumm, and Emma (Paul) Folkers; and brothers-in-law, August (Luella) and Otto Krohn.

The family is grateful for the kindness extended to us by so many during this difficult time. We also wish to thank current and former staff at the Bloomfield Good Samaritan Society for the care bestowed upon her over her many years as a resident.