Edna Mae Kremin

Edna Mae Helen Kremin was born May 6, 1930, the daughter of Louis and Malinda Krayenhagen Retman. She passed away at the Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday, October 16, 2010 at the age of eighty.
Edna Mae was born in Denison and graduated from Denison Community Schools in 1949. While in high school, she began working at Harkers dime store, and continued there for a short time after graduation. December 4, 1951, Edna Mae and Howard Kremin were united in marriage at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Carroll. The couple settled on the Kremin home farm near Dow City and was blessed with the birth of three sons.
As a homemaker she enjoyed the days she baked and cooked meals for her family and friends that were out in the fields. She loved quilts and spent many hours sewing and collecting fabric, but most of all she enjoyed her family. She was a devoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Precious moments found her adoring her grandchildrens art works and watching her grandchildrens sporting events and school plays. Traveling was another passion of Edna Mae. She toured Hawaii, Austria, Las Vegas, and a Carribean cruise. Action films that included John Wayne and Jack Lord in Hawaii 5-0, and other silver screen classics were of interest to her as well as Lawrence Welk and the Food Channel.
Edna Mae was preceded in death by her parents, one grandson, Samuel, three sisters, Lillian Reetz, Selma Dersien and Ella Wingrove. Survivors include her husband, Howard of Dow City; three sons, Steve and his wife, Nancy of Manilla; David and his wife, Lorna of Newell, Iowa; Mark and his wife, Sandy; of Dow City. Six grandchildren, Annie Kremin, Valerie Kovarna; Kris Kremin, Amber Rouse, Kayla Kremin, and Chelsy Kremin; six great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.