Marie Kreitzer

Marie (Gerleman) Kreitzer was born Feb. 18, 1935, to Edmund and Cecilia Gerleman in Calmar. She attended St. Aloysius School, and upon graduation, attended and completed cosmetology school in Waterloo. Marie met and had the first dance with the love of her life, Ron Kreitzer, in June of 1955 at the Inwood Ballroom in Spillville. Two years later, Aug. 10, 1957, Marie and Ron were married.  After honeymooning in South Dakota, they settled briefly in Ridgeway before establishing their family farm just south of Cresco in 1964.