Barbara Holzapfel Obituary

BARBARA HOLZAPFEL Barbara Holzapfel, 77, died at her home in Santa Fe on December 9, 2017 after a long battle with metastatic breast cancer. Barbara was born on July 16, 1940 to Tessie and Edward Dudas of Wallington, NJ. She married Frank Kroll, also of Wallington in 1961. Following the birth of her children David Kroll and Sandi Kroll O'Reilly, she pursued studies in nursing. Upon her graduation from Felician College of Nursing in New Jersey she became a Registered Nurse working in various hospitals and medical practices in New Jersey. In 1996 Barbara remarried Bernhard (Bernie) Holzapfel of Oradell, NJ. They split their time between Bethel, CT, and Santa Fe, NM finally settling down permanently in Santa Fe in 2006. When not traveling the world, Barbara and Bernie were supporters of the Santa Fe Opera and Opera Southwest as well as a number of other cultural organizations in New Mexico. They volunteered their time at organizations such as Girls Inc. and the Santa Fe Capital City Lions Club where Barbara used her nursing experience in vision screenings of the indigent and the KidSight program. In addition to her love of music Barbara was an avid mahjong player. Barbara was preceded in death by Frank Kroll, (her former husband and father of her children) in 1997; her mother Tessie in 2003, and her stepfather Andrew Dabeck in 1992. She is survived by her beloved husband Bernie Holzapfel of Santa Fe; her two children and their spouses: David Kroll and wife, Dr. Heather Shaw of Durham, NC, and Sandi Kroll O'Reilly and husband Brien of West Redding, CT, and her three grandchildren, Owen James Francis O'Reilly and Ian Brien O'Reilly of West Redding, CT and Phoebe Talbot Kroll of Durham, NC. A celebration of life will be held at a future time. Those wishing to honor Barbara's memory with a memorial gift are encouraged to support the non-profit Cancer Foundation for New Mexico, P.O. Box 5038, Santa Fe, NM 87502, or online at http://cfnm.org/donate."

Published by Santa Fe New Mexican from Dec. 15 to Dec. 16, 2017.
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Very sorry for your loss, Barbara was a wonderful person and will be missed.

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December 16, 2017

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