Barbara Kromray Wilder

December 4, 1922 - April 13, 2018

Barbara Kromray Wilder, 95, of Minocqua passed peacefully away on April 13, 2018. Barbara and her late husband Ernie, moved their family from Milwaukee in 1965. Along with raising her children, Barbara worked many hours at the Plantation Supper Club and in her late years, in the dietary department at Howard Young Medical Center. She was always hard at work caring for her family and later, a devoted grandmother that matched no other. After Ernie passed away in 1998, Barbara kept busy cooking and maintaining a home that was loving and welcoming. Barbara remarried in 2007. She and Wally resided in Minocqua, where she continued to care for family by making her specialties: stuffed peppers, potato salad and cheese torte. Barbara will be dearly missed by her children: Gary Kromray, Ron Kromray (Terri), David Kromray, Patty Carlson (Ken), Bob Kromray and Nancy Rogerson, previous daughters-in-law Celeste Gonder and Heidi Huls, nine grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. A thousand times we needed you, A thousand times we cried; If love alone could have saved you, You never would have died. A heart of gold stopped beating, Two twinkling eyes closed to rest; God broke our hearts to prove, He only takes the best.