Verna Klaus

Verna J. Klaus, 90, of Rock Island, Illinois, died Thursday, May 4, 2006, in Trinity Medical Center, Rock Island.
Services will be held at a later date at Stanfold Lutheran Church, Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Burial of cremains will be in Stanfold Lutheran Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the church. Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline, is assisting the family.
The former Verna Jensen was born October 10, 1915, in Rice Lake, the daughter of Christ and Minnie (Pekrul) Jensen. She graduated from Rice Lake High School in 1933, and from Evangelical School of Nursing, Chicago, in 1940. On May 16, 1942, she married Robert Edward Klaus who worked for Eastern Air Lines for 32 years. They lived in Chicago, Florida, New York and Wisconsin, and had a wonderful marriage for 60 years. As they moved, Verna worked as a registered nurse in Medical-Surgical departments in hospitals in each city. The couple retired to Sarona, Wisconsin in 1976, and enjoyed a happy 20 years of retirement. When Bob became ill in 1999, they moved to Illinois to be near their daughter. Bob died December 15, 2003.
Verna and Bob were avid square dancers, and she enjoyed knitting, reading, and gardening.
Verna is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Libbie and Samuel DeTrent of Rock Island; two granddaughters and their husbands, Laura and Brian Krumm of Chicago, and Elizabeth and Brian McCarthy of Bethesda, Maryland; and a brother and sister-in-law, LeRoy and Thoni Jensen of Alaska. She was preceded in death by eight brothers and sisters, and six half-brothers.
Verna?s family invites you to sign her guestbook or light a candle in her memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.