Elizabeth Kranich, age 89 of Elgin, passed away on Wednesday, March 12, at the Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin.

The funeral service will be held at 10:30am Monday, March 17, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Elgin. Rev Wayne Rouse will officiate with burial in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery at Elgin.

Special music will be provided by Bonnie Rouse, Karen Crawford, and Linda Newby.

Serving as casketbearers are Linda Newby, Karen Crawford, Phillip Clark, Steve Kranich, Jim Theurer, and Duane Schatz. All family and friends are considered Honorary Bearers.

A memorial has been established.

ELIZABETH OLENA MATE TIBKE was born February 22, 1919 on a farm near Elgin, ND to John and Tillie (Michelsen) Tibke. She attended a local country school near her home and high school in Carson and Elgin. On July 14, 1937, she was united in marriage to Paul Kranich at the Kranich farm north of Elgin. They lived on the Kranich farm for 2 years where they farmed with his parents. They rented for 2 years and in 1945 purchased the Martin Landgrebe farm. The Kranich's farmed and ranched together there until retiring. They constructed a home in Elgin in 1978. In 2000, they sold there home and moved into an apartment.

She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church since 1937.

She enjoyed gardening and working with flowers and enjoyed many years of traveling together with Paul.

Surviving family members include her husband, Paul; daughter, Phyllis Clark, Forest City, IA; son and daughter-in-law, Douglas and Carol Kranich, Bemidji, MN; 3 grandchildren, Phillip Clark, Karen (John) Crawford, Linda (Troy) Newby; 6 great grandchildren, Cody, Wyatt, Dylan, Cale, Seth, Alec; sister, Cleo Deplazes, Devils Lake, ND.

She was preceded in death by her parents, son-in-law, Robert Clark, 2 brothers and sisters-in-law, Edward and Emma Tibke, Elmer and Elvera Tibke, brothers-in-law, Jerry Wood and Paul Deplazes, 2 sisters, Delores Tibke and a unnamed sister in infancy.