Kimberly Kathryn Grong (Krieg), 49, passed away on Thursday, August 10, 2017 surrounded by loving family and friends. Kim was the beloved wife of Robert Grong, mother of Katie and David, daughter of Nancy Krieg, sister of Sean and Kevin (Wendy) Krieg and Kristi Lopez (Jesse) and auntie to Jack. She was preceded in death by her father, David Krieg.
Visitation will be Sunday, August 13, from 2 – 5 p.m. at Sandberg Funeral Home, 2593 E. 7th Ave., North St. Paul, MN. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, August 14, at 11:00 a.m. at Transfiguration Catholic Church, 6133 15th Street North, Oakdale MN 55128. There will be visitation before the Mass at church beginning at 10:00 a.m.
We invite family and friends to a luncheon at the church following the funeral. Interment in Bloomington Cemetery will follow lunch and all are invited.
Special thanks to the staff at United Hospital Neurological Intensive Care Unit for the loving and tender care they provided to Kim over the past two weeks. We will always remember and be comforted by the gentleness and respect that was shown to Kim and to all of us during her stay.
And heartfelt thanks to Kim’s Emmaus sisters. Kim loved the Emmaus group and took great joy in having found a place with the women there, who she truly looked upon as her sisters in Christ. We thank you for sustaining our souls with your prayers and our bodies with your gifts of meals during Kim’s illness.
Kim’s joy in this world was her family, beginning with her husband and children who were her mainstays and gifts. Her family included not only her close relatives, but also her many beloved friends, particularly Connie Gillen, who journeyed through life’s challenges with Kim with unflinching love and devotion. They were, and remain, sisters of the heart.
Timmy, as she was affectionately called by her family, will be missed in every moment of the days to come, at family dinners and events big and small. She will be remembered for her gentle spirit, her graceful forbearance of her suffering and for the beauty of the legacy she left with us all - her exemplary Christian marriage, her remarkable children, and her modeling of Christ’s love and patience with everyone she encountered. This world is the poorer for her absence.