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hey,
i was just searching some uncles of mine, and i found your site. My mothers maiden name is kruse, and her father is Russel Kruse and he lives in Auburn Indian. my mother told me her family was from germany, and i was wondering if there is any connection between us. im not sure what russels fathers name was, but i know his sons.
Russel has 5 sons Dean, David, Derald, Dennis, Daniel, and he had two daughters. his son Dean is a huge name in Indiana. he owns kruse international, a antique and classic car auction company. david and derald are both lawyers and have a company called kruse and kruse. my uncle david also is the one of the family that takes care of all the geneology, you may know him? anyway
any information would be cool. thanks
jacob ferris
obit
R. Kruse
Friends and family remembered Kruse International founder Russell W. Kruse as "a character" in the best sense of the word.
Kruse died Friday morning in Lutheran Hospital of a massive stroke. He was 85.
Kruse established an Auburn real estate and auction business in 1952 with his father-in-law, Lester Boger. The company, as Kruse International, has gone on to become one of the world's leading collector car auction companies.
Russell Kruse had a good singing voice, and it carried just as well from the auction ring, son Dean Kruse said.
"You never got tired of listening to it," he said.
A tradition of having Russell Kruse sing "Back Home Again in Indiana" before every auction will continue \endash the family plans to play an audio recording of their patriarch singing the tune.
In addition to his intrepid business sense, Kruse was a jovial man with a keen memory for humor, said Keith Busse, president and CEO of Steel Dynamics Inc. Busse, a car collector, met Kruse in the 1970s through car auctions and came to know him well.
Kruse's positive nature was refreshing, Busse said.
"He was quite a character, but you know, we need a few characters like that," he said.
Dean Kruse likes the description.
"That sort of explains my dad pretty good," Dean Kruse said. "He told everybody how he felt."
If Russell Kruse's opinion offended anyone, his response was simple \endash "He'd say, 'They needed to be told,'" Dean Kruse said.
Russell Kruse had slowed down in recent years after a stroke eight years ago, but he still enjoyed hunting and fishing. He went on a Canadian fishing trip last summer and had his bags packed for the trip the December before, his son joked.
Auburn attorney Donald Stuckey met Russell Kruse as a child, when Stuckey's father would take him to Kruse's auctions. Later in life, Donald Stuckey and Kruse became hunting and fishing partners.
In fishing, the two friends had defined roles, Stuckey said.
"It's my recollection he preferred catching them over cleaning them," he said of Kruse.
Despite his aversion to cleaning fish, Kruse was an avid outdoorsman who raised excellent coyote-hunting dogs and loved being in nature, Stuckey said.
"If he'd have been born 200 years ago, he'd have been one of the pioneers," Stuckey said.
He married Luella Boger in 1940 and had seven children. Kruse married Lyubov Koutsova of St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1998, and she survives.
In addition to Dean Kruse, Kruse is survived by three other sons and their spouses, David, Dennis and Daniel a stepson, Kevin and his wife; daughters Diann Kruse Ferris and Debbie Kruse Shoaff and their spouses; daughter-in-law Jackie Kruse; 22grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; and 19great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are sisters Helen Rowe and Ruth Doris Moreland. He was preceded in death by a brother, Herald and a son, Derald.
Services will be at 11a.m. Monday in the County Line Church of God south of Auburn, with three of Kruse's grandsons, Mitchell, Stuart and Dane Kruse, officiating. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery in Auburn.
Calling is 2 to 8p.m. Sunday at Feller and Clark Funeral Home, 1860S. Center St., Auburn.
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