A TRIBUTE TO DENISE SARLO KRUEGER
A TRIBUTE TO DENISE SARLO KRUEGER
Sunday, July 30, 2017
“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.” ~Laura Ingalls Wilder
William E. Cleary Sr. | CNBNewsnet
Mrs. Denise Krueger (nee Sarlo) of Gloucester City, NJ passed away on
Tuesday, July 25, 2017, at the Voorhees Hospice Care Center, Voorhees, NJ following a long illness. She died from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and osteoporosis. She was 64 years old.
'Necy' attended Gloucester City High School. For a time she worked at Publishers Printing, 5th and Jersey Avenue in the graphic arts department and in the mail room. She sold advertising for the Gloucester City News for a decade and was the cook at her husband’s (Frank C. Krueger) former bar, Glory Days, Essex and Burlington Streets. For many years she was employed as a home health care aide by Senior Citizens United Community Services (SCUCS), Audubon.
She enjoyed cooking big meals for her family and friends, especially at the holidays. “Sometimes those meals just didn’t turn out as planned,” said her sister Connie Cleary. “One Thanksgiving dinner she cooked the turkey upside down. How that happened I don’t know. We all looked at it and burst out laughing. When Denise innocently said as she took the turkey out of the oven, “I never saw such a skinny turkey.” We laughed even harder. Everything turned out okay though, and that turkey was one of the juiciest we ever tasted.”
“Denise was down to earth and it didn’t take much to make her happy. Her entertainment could be as simple as watching a mystery show on television or Judge Judy or Happy Days.Throw in some micro wave popcorn and she was content. Her idea of being wild was putting quarters into the slot machine at the Tropicana Casino. She loved listening to the oldies, being with her husband and children, Gary and Nicole. During her illness, Nicole would visit her mom with her dog Polo, a 100-pound mixed male. I can still see Denise and Polo in my mind cuddling together,” said Connie.
“Denise was my baby sister. She was nine when Billy and I got married in 1964. Like all sisters, she and I didn’t always agree but we always loved one and another.”
“There is one recollection about Denise when she was working for me that I will never forget, said Bill Cleary. “We were talking on the phone about an advertisement she sold. She had a headache and was unable to come into the office. As she was giving me the information the phone would become static. I would hear this banging noise and the static would clear up. I asked, “Denise what is wrong with your phone? “I don’t know it keeps breaking up. But when I bang the receiver on the side of my head the noise goes away.” Holding in my laughter I said, “Denise did you ever think you might be getting headaches because of you hitting the receiver on the side of your head?”
“There was a moment of silence and then she and I both let out a roar of laughter.”
Ginny Tavener, her oldest sister, said, "Warren and I would travel with Denise and Frank to Sarasota Race Track in Sarasota Springs for the horse races. I will always remember those trips with her along with our visit to Disneyland. Such fond memories. "
She is the beloved wife of Frank C. Krueger, loving mother of Gary Walker (Krissy) and Nicole Wagner (Mike) and dear sister of Virginia Tavener (Ken) and Connie Cleary (Bill), and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, Thomas and Blanche Sarlo. Funeral services were under the direction of the Etherington-Creran Funeral Home, 700 Powell Street, Gloucester City. The funeral service was private at the request of the family.
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