Mary Krogstad

Mary M. Krogstad age 84 of Maiden Rock was called home to the lord and her loving husband on December 30th, 2025 at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Mary was born on August 5th, 1941 in Red Wing. She was the daughter of Bernard and Margaret Sundberg. She attended school in Maiden Rock. She married Harold A. Krogstad on June 15th 1963. She spent her days on the farm raising five children that turned into twelve grandchildren and twenty-two incredible great grandchildren that she was so very proud to have.

Mary is survived by her loving family, her children Tod Krogstad, Jodi(Charles) Hase, Shawn(Kenny) King, and Chad Krogstad. Special boys Terry Schuh, Kenny Jennings, Paul Clingenpeel and John Garrets. Twelve grandchildren Katie(Tom) Knegendorf, Amber(Chris) Queiser, Josh(Janel) King, Lyle(Courtney) Krogstad, Christopher(Morgan) Krogstad, Collin(Kylie) Welter, Chase(Emily) Lanz, Sadie(Connor) Larson, Jasimine Hase, Wyatt Hase, KayLee Krogstad(Gabby) and Cameron Krogstad. Twenty great grandchildren Olivia, Ivan, Evelyn, Emmitt, Delilah, Jordan, Jamison, McKenna, Sophia, Waylon, Hattie, Tate, Ella, Lydia, Raelynn, Walker, Grace, Kayce, Thorsen and LeRoy.

She is preceded in death by her husband of sixty years Harold Krogstad, parents Bernard and Margaret, father and mother-in-law Leon and Grace Krogstad, brother David Sundberg, sisters Sharon Menting and Shirley Siefert, daughter Stacey Lanz, and great granddaughters Madeline Ellis and Everley Larson.

Celebration of life to be held at the United Methodist Church in Maiden Rock, Wi on January 10th from 11am-2pm

So God Made a Farmer's Wife

Written by Sierra Shea ~ Inspired by Paul Harvey

And on the 9th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said,

"Oh dear, the farmer is going to need help.

So God made a farmer's wife.

God said, "I need somebody who will get up before dawn, make breakfast, work all day in the kitchen, bank, school or alongside her farmer and then come home to fix supper and wash up the dishes."

So God made a farmer's wife.

God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with their newborn son. And watch him grow.

Then, pray each morning and teach her children to say please and thank you.

I need somebody who can make a fried-egg sandwich, stretch a paycheck or thicken soup.

who can clean her house with vinegar, baking soda and hot water.

And who, planting time and harvest season,

will finish her forty-hour week on Friday, then, join her farmer in the field for another two days, six meals and five loads of laundry.

So God made a farmer's wife.

God had to have somebody willing to work in town for "the insurance," to care for the calves, sheep and hens during harvest and spend her weekends working to get the hay in at double speed ahead of the rain clouds.

And, keep working af it alone, when the farmer goes off to help the neighbor when she sees first the first smoke.

So God made a farmer's wife.

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to plant trees and heave bales, to co-sign a loan for a half a million with steady hands, yet gentle enough to tame show lambs and raise kids and calm the farmer when he's upset over higher rent or lower corn, who will stop her work for an hour to talk on the phone to her neighbor who just found out her mother is sick.

It had to be somebody who would cook and clean and not cut corners.

Somebody to wash, dry, iron, tidy, feed, rake, water, drive, pick-up this, run that back and check the homework and pack the lunch bags and remember the basketball schedule and replenish the refrigerator

and finish a hard week's work with a five-mile ride to church.

"Somebody who'd sew a family together with the soft strong stitches of sharing,

when her dough er says shants to spent her le the wint mom does?

So God made a farmer's wife.