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LeRoy Krueger Obituary

Krueger, Dr. LeRoy

LeRoy A. Krueger, M.D., slipped into the arms of His Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ on Sept. 5, 2013, 22 days short of has 80th birthday, at his home surrounded by his family.

Born Sept. 27, 1933 in Westboro, Wisconsin the son of the late Frank and Marie Krueger. LeRoy graduated from Medford High School in 1951. He attended Taylor County Teacher's College and taught all eight grades in a one room school house.

He attended the University of Wisconsin Madison pre-med for 3 years and was accepted into Medical school a year early. During his first year of medical school, he cared for a paraplegic for 60 hours a week. While in medical school he split his second year to do research with Professor Herron. He graduated from Medical School in May of 1964. His did a residency of pathology in clinical as well as anatomical pathology.

LeRoy was a Captain in the army during the Vietnam war and practiced as a Pathologist and Emergency room physician at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska. He was a physician for 48 years and only missed 6 days of work during that time. He was also the director of the Lincoln County Bloodbank for many years. He was on the hospital board at Good Samaritan, as well as other hospitals. LeRoy put on 6000 to 7000 miles a month going to small hospitals to diagnosis specimens for surgeons and doing autopsies. He went to Medford, Merrill, Waupaca, Clintonville, Shawano, Antigo, Rhinelander, Wausau North, Wausau South and Aspirus Hospital. In later years, he worked in Medford and Merrill primarily. You may have not known, he diagnosed hundreds perhaps thousands of diseases and through his knowledge saved many lives in the North Central Wisconsin area retiring at the age of 77.

One of his greatest joys was to have high school students come to the hospital for the Career Internship Program. He would have them observe his pathology practice and explained how he looked at slides under his microscope and diagnosed various diseases. He received letters from former students stating that they had gone on to college and chose a medical career for their profession.

He was a Sunday School teacher for adults as well as teaching 3-4 year olds using puppets. He was a youth director for the Evangelical Free Church in Madison, Wisconsin during his residency. He was a Gideon handing out New Testaments and sharing Christ with anyone who would listen. LeRoy had Bible studies for the inmates at Marathon County jail. He cared about the inmates and wanted to guide them not only on spiritual matters, but also developing skills for their future. One inmate asked LeRoy, "How many times have you read your Bible?" He replied 60 or 70 times! He started Merrill Bible Church in 1978 and gathered 9 others to help him. He guided many home Bible studies and cared enough to visit people in their homes to encourage them and pray with them. He cherished his Bible and his favorite Old Testament book was Job and his favorite New Testament was John. One of his favorite verses was Romans 10:9--"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

The most important things in LeRoy's life were God, family, and he was a great outdoorsman. He was a member of the NRA and also the Lincoln County Sports Club.

LeRoy's family included his wife Pauline of 53 years and seven children, Sophia (Jim) Rustad, William (Ulla) Stevens, Matthew (Shari) Krueger, Mark Krueger, Michelle Krueger, Miriam Gustafson. He was preceded in death by Reggie Goebel. He also had 6 grandchildren, Kyle, Brandon, Maria, Kitara, Micah, Jacob and Gabi.

A remembrance of LeRoy's life will be held on Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 1:00 PM at Merrill Bible Church, 508 Eugene Street, Merrill, Wisconsin. A meal will be provided after the service.

Mid-Wisconsin Cremation Society Is Assisting the family. Online Condolences May be expressed at jjbfh.com.

Published by Wausau Daily Herald on Sep. 15, 2013.
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It has been a few years of Leroy's passing, but I still remember how Leroy went out of his way to minister to people. He would take poor people out to the finest restaurants in town and I would always look at myself and see if there were things I should be doing for others. Thanks for the opportunity to remember him one more time.

John Stewart

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September 9, 2020

Sorry, Pauline, I just now discovered that Leroy had gone home to be with his Lord. I trust the Lord is taking care of you. I didn't know that Leroy was just a few months older than I am.

John Stewart

August 27, 2014

Pauline and family, I just stumbled across Dr. Kruegers obit.
I wish for there to be peace, comfort and take joy in remembering his time spent with you all here on earth.
He always had the time for us kids, whether it was camping out at crescent lake. Or made extra room to have more kids sleep over at their house in Merrill.

Carla Koplin-Sims

April 4, 2014

Pauline and Family
All of you are in our thoughts and prayers. Am sorry to hear of your loss. But am thankful that we will see him again someday in Heaven.
I remember all the times I spent up at your home in Merrill and seeing the two of you when we went to Wausau Bible Church.
I remember our trip we took to Oregon years ago on the train. We had lots of fun.
Over the years I would see you once in a while.
I will be with you in spirit on Sat. I won't be able to attend due to a prior engagement.

Lucene (Bill) Udulutch
Kronenwetter

September 16, 2013

He treated me like a son..took me out hunting and other activities. I remember when Billy and I slept overnight one time in the camper and we ended up in Medford at the clinic because LeRoy took it to work that morning. That sure was fun.

Steve Jeske

September 15, 2013

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