Millicent “Millie” Krenik

Millicent “Millie” Ann Krenik, 77, of Belle Plaine, died peacefully while she slept in her home, on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.  A Funeral Mass will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of the Prairie Catholic Church on 200 East Church Street in Belle Plaine. Visitation will be at the church from 9 to 11 a.m. For those who wish to come early and pray her favorite prayer, the Rosary, with the family, it will begin at 8 a.m. before 8:30 daily mass.  
Following the 11 a.m. Funeral Mass, the family will host a social time and luncheon in the gathering hall. Millie’s family and friends will then take her to her resting place next to her son, Michael, for the Christian Burial Rite at Calvary Catholic Cemetery on Scotch Lake Road in Cleveland, MN.  
 
Millicent was born on June 5, 1940, to George and Grace (Prendergast) Tiede in Lexington Township, and was baptized into Christ’s family on June 9, 1940, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Le Center. After attending District 8 Country School in Lexington, she graduated from Le Center McKinley High School in 1957. She enjoyed working as a Nurse Assistant in the OB Nursery of Queen of Peace Hospital in New Prague for a time before she married Walter “Wally” Krenik, of Le Center, on October 4, 1958 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Lexington Township. 
 
After the birth of two daughters, she attended the Mankato Beauty College and earned her license in cosmetology. The couple built a new home in Cleveland in 1964 and welcomed a third daughter into the family. She opened the “Golden Curl Beauty Salon” in her home and worked many years as a hairstylist while raising her girls. 
 
The family enjoyed many camping trips together and loved the neighborhood friends stopping in for a patio picnic and bonfire frequently. Millie has always had a strong Catholic faith and volunteered at her parishes by singing in the choir, serving in CCW events, and using her flair for gardening and decorating, she was the Art and Environment Coordinator at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Marysburg Township for several years. She has worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant at the St. Peter Community Hospital and also assisted the Notre Dame Sisters of Good Council in Mankato. She continued to work as a hairdresser with her daughter at Style Makers Salon in North Mankato and also from her home salon, City Limits Styling, in her new home in Cleveland until her move to Kingsway Senior Living in Belle Plaine in 2016. Millie enjoyed her career as a hairdresser until she retired at age 75.  
Millie loved entertaining family and friends with her great home cooking often followed by what her grandkids call, “Grandma’s famous Pecan Pie”! Every holiday she decorated her home so festively, never forgetting the Irish Shamrocks on St. Patty’s Day, as she loved her Irish heritage! Any time with her daughters and grandkids was a holiday in itself for Millie, and Christmas with them was her most favorite of them all!  
 
Being a social butterfly, she loved mingling and joining in fun activities no matter where she lived. After a great recovery from a recent valve replacement surgery, her daughters and granddaughters wanted to celebrate by planning her first trip to see her favorite baseball team, the Minnesota Twins, play at Target Field on Tuesday, Aug. 8, and upon picking her up they found she had passed in her sleep that morning. That celebration turned into a heavenly celebration where she was able to hold her son and great-grandson for the very first time, and after the Twins hit many home runs and a Grand Slam, the kids think she may have carried that ball a few times too, as she watched from the best seat in the house!
 
Millie was a generous and loving mom and grandma, and will be dearly remembered by her daughters, Tammy (Tim) Reinert of Becker, MN; DeNell (Keith Kern) Sexe-Kern of Belle Plaine, MN, and Brenda (Tom) Weber of Burnsville, MN, and her former husband of 40 years, Wally (Iris) Krenik; grandchildren, Kelly (Chad) Lower, Ethan (Kendra) Reinert, Elizabeth Reinert, Cody Sexe, Ben Sexe, Dylan Sexe, Charlie Kern, Dana Weber, Chris Weber; great-grandson, Spencer Lower; siblings, Leonard (Kathy) Tiede of Montgomery, Carol (Bob) Koralesky of Prior Lake, Liz Sladek of Le Center, Art (Jan) Tiede of Le Center, and Denise (Tom) Schindler of Le Center; many nieces and nephews; and her dear friends and new friends and neighbors at Kingsway in Belle Plaine.
 
 
She was joyfully greeted in heaven by her infant son, Michael Walter (January 6, 1969); her great-grandson, Silas Michael (January 31, 2017); her brother, James Tiede; brother-in-law, Roy (Butch) Sladek; her parents, and other family members, along with dear friends and neighbors who were certainly there as well. 

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