Geraldine Bernice (Sharp) Kruse, 104, Rapid City, died Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 at home. She was born September 27, 1911 to Claude and Emma Alice (Williams) Sharp in Des Moines, Iowa. She is survived by her son Claud Orville Kruse; three daughters, Freddis Jensene Kruse Williamson, Karole Anne Kruse Brown and Lillian Kruse Keyes; 27 grandchildren; 60 great grandchildren; 58 great-great grandchildren; her brother Ernie Sharp and her sister Josephine Moon. She is preceded in death by her husband Fred Kruse, two sons, three daughters, her parents, seven brothers, seven sisters, two granddaughters, Anita Bocki and Ernestine Cherni and one grandson, Dean Keyes.