Archie Krout

May 13, 1922 – June 15, 2022

After 100 well-lived years, Archie Krout passed away on June 15, 2022 in Crawfordsville Indiana. 

He was born in May 13, 1922 in Alamo, Indiana to the late Clarence Krout (Julie) and Fay Keller (Elmer Mitchell).  Archie resided in Crawfordsville, Indiana his entire adult life.

Mr. Krout loved to share memories of his beloved maternal grandparents, Benjamin and May Keller and of his childhood on the farm.

He was a WWll Navy Veteran, a member of Mt Zion UM church, and a long-standing member of the Crawfordsville Masonic Lodge.  He was retired from Indiana Bell Telephone Company.  Mr. Krout had a lifelong passion for music. He sang in Barbershop chorus and quartets and played several instruments, but his primary love was the Fiddle. Mr. Krout won many Old Fiddlers competitions and was inducted into the Wabash Valley Musicians Hall of Fame in 2014. Late in life, he learned to make Violins.  While he proudly never sold one, many persons were blessed to be gifted one of his hand made violins.  Many in the community enjoyed Mr. Krout’s fiddle music with the Back Porch Pickers and the Smartsburg Pickers

Survivors include his daughter Linda Krout (Michael) Mckinnon of Southport, NC; two siblings Clyde (Ruth) Krout of Montezuma, IN and Berta (Jim) Ruth Mitchell Ocheltree of Hillsboro, IN; as well as several loved nieces, nephews, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two wives Mary Louise Kendall Krout and Alberta Rhoads Nichols Krout; and three siblings Wilmer (Pat) Keller, Max Richard (Dick) Mitchell and Helen Lorraine Newman.

A funeral and Celebration of his life is scheduled to be held at Hunt and Son Funeral Home in Crawfordsville IN on July 7, 2022; Visitation is scheduled to run from 12 p.m. – 2 p.m. with service scheduled to immediately follow at 2 p.m.

Memorials made be made to a charity of your choice.

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