Steve was a good guy. Only his family and friends came before Kansas State University on his list of priorities. He was a fixture at KSU football games. If there was anyone who could even come close to Robert's level of devotion to K-State, Steve might have been the guy. After my dad passed away, he was kind enough to give us a land appraisal for next to nothing, and he would've done it for actually nothing if he could have. His wife is the best substitute teacher I ever had. I just wish I would've gotten to know him better.
This also serves as a cruel reminder that we must always care for each other and take the time to let the people around us know that they matter. Suicide is perhaps the most devilish curse we have to grapple with. It is indiscriminate. Steve was a successful businessman, a prominent citizen and a genuinely decent human being who, for whatever reason felt that ending his own life was the only possible solution to whatever problems he had. It's almost worse than evil. We can identify evil. We can't always identify the person we know who is so full of hopelessness and despair and pain that death is the only door they can find to walk through. It's just a god awful tragedy.
http://www.hutchnews.com/obituaries/20180201/steven-j-kruse
This also serves as a cruel reminder that we must always care for each other and take the time to let the people around us know that they matter. Suicide is perhaps the most devilish curse we have to grapple with. It is indiscriminate. Steve was a successful businessman, a prominent citizen and a genuinely decent human being who, for whatever reason felt that ending his own life was the only possible solution to whatever problems he had. It's almost worse than evil. We can identify evil. We can't always identify the person we know who is so full of hopelessness and despair and pain that death is the only door they can find to walk through. It's just a god awful tragedy.
http://www.hutchnews.com/obituaries/20180201/steven-j-kruse
