This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7609 Message Board Post: Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest Ca Kern County March 16, 2005 HERB "LITTLE HERB" KRUGGEL, JR. 1966-2005 Former Trona resident Herb "Little Herb" Kruggel Jr. passed away Tuesday Marc. 1, 2005 of pneumonia in Brandon, Miss. He was 38. Services were held in Richland, Miss. Friday, Mar. 4. A memorial gathering will be held for local family and friends at his mother's home in Ridgecrest Saturday, Mar. 19 from 1 to 3 pm. Everyone is welcome to come and say goodbye to Little Herb. Mr. Kruggel was born Sept. 5, 1966 in Benton Harbor, Mich. He lived in Trona prior to moving to Mississippi in 1988. He worked as a welder for Wade's Welding in Jackson, Miss. His family says this about him: "He loved playing with his daughters and playing the guitar. He was a super dad to his daughters. He will be missed." Mr. Kruggel is survived by his wife Lisa Kruggel of Richland, Miss., daughters Destiny Kruggel and Casy Kruggel of Richland, Miss., father Herb Kruggel Sr. of Ridgecrest, mother Carolyn Moore of Ridgecrest, sisters Debra Brazzell and Kristina Ruiz of Ridgecrest, niece Heather Jackson of Salt Lake City, Utah, nephew Jarrod Jackson of Naples, Fla. and nephew Joshua Ruiz of Ridgecrest. Media information provided by the family.