Les Krueger, who died at 88, and his wife built senior care facilities and were known for philanthropy
When he was a youngster working in the fields of his family’s Wisconsin farm in the 1930s, Les Krueger would look up enthralled when men of means in that hardscrabble era occasionally drove past in their fine Cadillacs.
Much later in life, when the farm boy with an eighth-grade education had become a successful business owner and a man of means himself, Krueger bought a vintage Cadillac like the doozies he had admired long ago.
In 1986, he went with his son to a car auction in Kirkland and saw a 1939 Cadillac LaSalle.
“He said, ‘I’m buying that car,’” recalled Rick Krueger, even though the old classic was in sorry condition and needed extensive restoration. read more »