Angela "Sis" Krause, 104, Stevens Point, died Friday, Jan. 1, 2010, in Stevens Point. She lived at Harmony Village Assisted Living Center.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 7, at Gunderson East Funeral Home in Madison. Entombment will be in Roselawn Memorial Park in Madison.
Visitation will be at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Memorials may be made to Portage County Hospice or Harmony Assisted Living in lieu of flowers.
Condolences may be offered online at www.gundersonfh.com.
Mrs. Krause was born March 10, 1905, in Soldiers Grove, a daughter of the late Frederick and Alvina (Kasparek) Barney. As a child she worked cleaning the office of her father, a dentist. After her mother died in 1907, she was raised by her mother's sister, Anastasia Kasparek, who became her stepmother in 1910.
The family moved from Soldiers Grove to Roy, Montana, returning to the Soldiers Grove area in 1913 after her father died. She graduated from Prairie du Chien High School and went to the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
She was married Julius J. Gust on March 7, 1925, in Madison. He died in 1949.
She worked for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture with the Works Progress Administration, and during World War II, she took a part-time job with R.M.R, a subsidiary of Rayovac, which made batteries for walkie-talkies.
She was married to Orville Krause on Dec. 22, 1951. He died in 2002.
They moved to Washington, D.C., and she worked for the Library of Congress for 20 years before retiring.
After retiring, they returned to Madison and did a lot of traveling around the world. On her 90th birthday, she rode the Bullet Train in Japan.
Mrs. Krause moved to Stevens Point in 2008 to be near her daughter, Rae Dyb, her only surviving child.
She was a member of Parkside Presbyterian Church for more than 75 years, continuing her membership even when in Washington, D.C. She was also a member of Amaranth and the White Shrine for many years.
Survivors include one daughter Rae Dyb, Stevens Point; one daughter-in-law, Dolores Gust, Madison; and more than 100 direct descendants.
She was also preceded in death by three daughters, Margarette (Peggy) Hollingsworth, Virginia Bormann and Julia (Judy) Dilley; two sons, Laurence (Larry) Gust and Stephen (Steve) Gust; two sisters, Clara Herlache and Frances (Babe) Cooper; and two brothers, Frederick Barney and John Clayton Barney.