Gary Krueger Obituary

My friendship with Gary goes back to the first grade in Mrs Buchan´s class. Gary always reminded me of his first memory of our friendship. I was digging a tunnel in the sandbox and Gary came over and started digging a tunnel across from me. After a while I said to Gary "I´m not going to hit you Gary." He was puzzled by my statement. He was glad that I wasn´t going to hit him but unsure as to why I needed to tell him that. As we kept digging I again said "I´m not going to hit you Gary". Gary was really confused. Finally I said to him "Gary, if you keep digging in that direction our tunnels won´t hit each other to complete the tunnel". Now it made sense to Gary. He could stop worrying about me possibly wanting to hit him. We were close friends from that moment. All through elementary, jr high and high school and into college. When he moved to Texas we lost contact for a few years but I finally tracked him down by calling his parents. I was able to visit him a couple times in Texas and after he moved to Colorado I was able to visit him a couple times there. It was great when texting and then Facebook came around and we were able to keep in contact much better. Gary was such a good writer that reading his texts and posts were much more than just keeping in touch. He could make the simplest things seem so grand and his words always played like a movie in my head as I read them. He was also just a really nice guy. We would go to in n out burger and just eat and talk and feed the birds French fries for hours. Gary was so easy to be around. I am so sad that he is gone and I will miss him immensely but I am thankful that he was my friend for all these years. I am a much better person for knowing him.