Ernest William Kroll

Ernest William Kroll was born to Margaret and Ernest Henry Kroll on April 25th, 1944.

The graveside memorial service to be held Saturday May 17th, at Lone Fir Cemetery in Long Beach, WA at 1:30pm. 

All are welcome.

Below is an excerpt from an article Ernest wrote and published on realgoodfood.com, Jan 4, 2008.

I grew up in the Northwest on the Long Beach Peninsula on a small farm (just above the Columbia River and just north of Megler where the old ferry plied back and forth between it and Astoria). I left home and joined the military in (edited- 1960’s) when I was 17. I didn’t know I had it so good until I left home. My father was a good hunter and fisherman, a great outdoorsman, and he loved the life. He took what work he could to put food on the table and clothes on his family’s back, working in logging, oysters, clamming, and he even was town constable for a few years during WWII. But he still found time to be a farmer. My mother was a farmer’s housewife, and she, too, loved it and was very good at it. She was a fantastic cook (on her large cast-iron wood burning stove), baked her own bread pastries, and canned a lot. She made all kinds of meats including wild game, berries, veggies, and pickles (of course). We gathered wild berries in five-gallon tins. Blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries, huckleberries, blueberries, salmon berries, slalom, strawberries, thimble berries…during the season we were literally covered up with berries, and we even grew them in our garden, including gooseberries (loved gooseberry pie!).

Special thanks to family and friends who were there in Ernie’s last days and hours to be with him and those that helped in many other ways. Also would like to thank Penttila’s for helping with this obituary post.