Jeanne C. Kreutz

Jeanne Charlotte Kreutz, resident of Harvard from 1947 to 1999, died Thursday, August 23, 2012 in Albuquerque, NM. Services will be held on Friday, September 21, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. at the Alberding Wilson Funeral Home in Harvard with Pastor Dave Johnson officiating. . Interment will be in the Harvard Cemetery. Condolences may be sent to the family from www.brandwilson.com. Jeanne was raised during the Depression in Columbia Heights, a suburb of Minneapolis, MN. In childhood she learned gratitude for whatever she had and began her long life of helping and caring for others. Jeanne earned her nursing degree at the University of Minnesota during WWII. She took 24 hours of classes each semester, worked four hours a day at the hospital, and studied well into the night. She met her future husband, Orlo, while working at the Bushnell Army Hospital in Brigham City, Utah. After the war she was an RN at the Minneapolis Veterans Hospital. She married Orlo in 1947 and moved to his hometown, Harvard, Nebraska. She continued her work as a licensed RN. She was often called upon to help in medical emergencies and provided home health care, physical therapy, TB tests, and administered injections and vaccinations for individuals and entire counties. She served as the Harvard and county school nurse and formed a nurses organization so local nurses could work together. The last 10 years of her career she worked in a medical clinic in Aurora. Jeanne was widowed in 1979, but remained in Harvard to care for husbands family. She moved to Albuquerque to be with her daughter in l999. Jeanne was an exceptional wife and parent and a modest unassuming woman. She was admired and respected for her skill, honesty, wit and intelligence. To be in her presence was to feel the Holy Spirit residing in a gentle person of true goodness. She lived only unconditional love, compassion and understanding. She was always grateful and asking for nothing. She was a person totally at peace with her life and her relationship with God. We will miss her gentle touch. She is survived by her son, Alan, and daughter, Barbara and her husband Don; grandchildren, Kimberly, Michael and his wife Kimberly, Tanya, Carrie and her husband Richard; and great-granddaughter, Anabella. Mrs. Kreutz was preceded in death by her husband, Orlo Romaine Kreutz, her parents and her brother and sister.