Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church for Dale Herman Kruse, following a 1:30 prayer service at Huebner's Funeral Home in Denison. The funeral was one of the largest ever held in Westside. Rev. E.G. Otte, pastor of the church, officiated.

Pallbearers were three high school classmates, Gordon Jensen, now attending University of Valparaiso, at Valparaiso, Indiana; Conrad Schoessler of Westside, and Lloyd Barton of Kamrar, and two college classmates of Westside attending the Iowa State college, John Campbell and Ivan Rickers of Ames and Charles Wulf, a schoolmate attending college at Marysville, Missouri.

Irene Rohwer, church organist, played and also accompanied Mrs. Lyle Joens of Manning and Reynold Gehlsen of Denison, who sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "In the Garden." Mrs. Joens and Mr. Gehlsen were schoolmates of Dale.

Interment was in Hayes Township Cemetery beside his father and sister.

Dale Herman Kruse was born August 31, 1936, only son of Dora (Wiese) and Herman Kruse, and entered into rest on April 18, 1956, at the age of 19 years, 7 months and 18 days. He was baptized and confirmed as a member of the St. John's E&R Church. Dale was prominent in both church and school activities. He was a member of the basketball and baseball teams four years and was also as member of the mixed chorus for three years. He served as class officer in the junior year and as president his senior year. He was a member on the Eagle staff, high school paper in his sophomore and junior years, and was a member of the casts in both the junior and senior class plays. He attended boys' state, when a junior.

He was chosen to extend the welcome at their junior-senior banquet in his junior year and the response at the junior-senior banquet in his senior year. He was elected by the student body as the "most representative student" in the senior class to reign at the junior-senior prom. He enrolled at Iowa State College in September 1955, to study veterinarian medicine.

Plans were made for his marriage to Karen Kroeger of Westside to be June 10, 1956.

He was preceded in death by his only sister, Ferne, a graduate nurse of Deaconess Hospital in Marshalltown, who died in January 1944, at the age of 25. His father, Herman H. Kruse, passed away in January 1948.

He leaves his mother, Mrs. Dora Kruse of Westside, his fiancée, Karen Kroeger of Westside, a host of uncles and aunts and cousins, and an nlimited number of friends.

Among those attending from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Merle Wiese, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Wiese and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Wiese, Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore Passick, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Passick, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Passick, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Mack and family, Mr. and Mrs. James Arduser, Mrs. Walter Wiese, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiese, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hagedorn, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hagedorn and family, Mr. Douglas Glime of Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Leo O. Wiese, Mrs. Emma V. Duncan, Harry Wiese of Perry; Mrs. H.J. Peters. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Peters and family, Mr. Clifford Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Forest Wiese and son, Mrs. Alma Greteman of Arcadia; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gustavson and Donna of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Glime and daughter of Forrest City; Mr. and Mrs. Hans Hagedorn of Jefferson; Mr. and Mrs. Warren Wiese of Manilla; Mr. and Mrs. Leland Kienast, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kruse, Mr. and Mrs. George Carsten, Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Julius Wehrmann, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wiese, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Steen, Emil Ehlers, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Joens, Mr. and Mrs. Louie Ehlers, Mrs. Anna Carsten and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hinners of Manning; Mrs. W. H. Mohr and son, Valley City, North Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harris, Everly; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mohr of Wausa, Nebraska; Mr. and Mrs. Arlo Wiese, Greenville; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kracht and daughter, Coon Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Knudtsen of Van Horne; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jenkins of Omaha; Janine Kroeger of Irwin, Kay Spaak of Boyer; Donald Grundmeier of Fort Riley, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jans of Spencer; Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Cose of Deloit; Myrna Yankey, Joan Youmans of Carroll.