Gretchen K. Kruse, 30, Port Byron, died Sunday, Apirl 15, 2012 at Genesis Medical Center-Illini Campus, Silvis. Funeral services are 10 AM Friday at Van Hoe Funeral Home Ltd., East Moline. Burial is in Hampton Cemetery. Visitation is 2-7PM Thursday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers and gifts, the family request that memorials may made to a fund for her children. Gretchen DeVrieze was born March 19, 1982 in Rock Island, the daughter of Randy W. and Linda (Leffler) DeVrieze. She graduated from UTHS, the class of 2000 and then from Hamilton Technical College. She married Sean Kruse on May 19th, 2007 in East Moline. She was working as a claims processor at United Health Care. She had played in Twin Rivers Softball league and loved the game of softball. She enjoyed drag racing and demolition derby. Gretchen has touched many lives during her short time on this earth. Her greatest joy was being a mother to her children. Gretchen gave the gift of life as an organ donor. Survivors include her husband Sean, her children, Kolton and Kami, her parents Randy and Lin DeVrieze, East Moline and brothers Raymond L Hughes Jr., Milan and Adrien "Scott" DeVrieze, Moline, her grandmother Helen Gretchen Leffler, W. Burlington, IA, her husband's parents, Bill and Ruth Kruse, brother-in-law, Seth Kruse and a host of aunts, uncles cousins and friends.

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