Shirley Kruger

Born and raised in Elgin, Texas to Grover Cleveland Scott and Ina Fay (Allen) Scott on Aug. 18, 1945. She attended Elgin schools and graduated in 1965.

She enjoyed playing basketball, volleyball, softball, and powder puff football. She was a junior high cheerleader and on the high school pep squad.

She married Lonnie Kruger on July 2, 1965, at the First Baptist Church in Elgin. They made their home in Taylor, Texas, and had two children. She supported and worked by her husband’s side when they owned their business, Kruger’s Quick Shade.

While her children attended Taylor schools, she was a substitute teacher at Taylor, subbing at Elgin, Granger, and Thrall schools also. She participated with the coaches and teachers on a donkey basketball team against the KVET radio station team and talked about the cross on the donkey’s back.

She tried everything from real estate to working at Kmart, the Video Movie Store, Kenwin Dress Shop, and That Shirt Place. To step up a notch, she was an extra in many movies, a favorite was “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” and meeting Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp.

As a proud Red Hat Lady, she relished gatherings and supported her grandson at all of his football games, demonstrating her unwavering commitment to family.

She is preceded in death by her parents Grover and Ina Scott; husband Lonnie Kruger; sister Mary Lou Glaspy; three brothers Abner, Dan, and Harlan Scott; one sister; one nephew Terry Edwards; one great-nephew Scott Mogonye; and two nieces Ann Bird and Renae Rogers.

She is survived by her daughter Kristi Schulz (Russell) and son Klifton Kruger (Alexandra), a sister Jessie Lee Edwards, three brothers Allen, Donald, and Joe Scott, two sister-in-laws Mary Scott and Annie Kruger, and grandchildren Kyra and Konstance Kruger, Conrad and Alyssa Schulz, numerous cousins, nephews, nieces and close friends.