Bio: Krebsbach, Melanie – Takes Betty Crocker Exam (Dec 1971)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Krebsbach

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 06 Jan 1972

Mrs. Melanie Krebsbach of rural Colby, mother of 12, who was born in Stratford, and with her parents moved to Edgar at 15, where she later married, and the moving to Colby in 1955 took the Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow exam, and received an excellent score.

The exams she took “just for fun” is the same exam given to high school senior girls. Mrs. Krebsback, herself a busy “current homemaker,” correctly answered question regarding various information concerning Vista works, constitutional amendments, nutrition, government spending, socialization and pollution. This is a test of facts and attitudes involving the kinds of problems and situations women will be likely to face as a homemaker.

Mrs. Krebsbach is a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, and is very active in its activities, belonging to St. Thomas group, the Christian Home and School Association, and the Colby Christian Mothers’ organization. At present she is helping organized a “luck 13 club,” which will help raise money that will be used to better equip the parochial school.

Also interested in school affairs, Mrs. Krebsback holds membership in three different school associations, the Unity PTA for kindergarten, The Christian Home and School Association for her children in grade school, and the Colby PTA for her high school children, in which she held office.

Her hobbies include reading, snowmobiling with the family and playing a lot of volleyball in the summer.

Married to Raymond Krebsbach, who is employed by AMPI, she often manages the family herself while he is on the road, and also is interested in his work, often attending the AMPI meetings with him.

Mrs. Krebsbach says the summer garden is the family project each year, with every one of the family taking part, even the little ones. She freezes the garden produce, and this is stored in a large freezer which the family empties four or five times a year. Two beef cattle and four pigs are raised each year for the family’s use.

The children are: Sandra, 24, who teaches at Pulaski; Pat, 20, married and living at Ellsworth; Dan, 19, employed by DHIA Marathon County and living at home; Drew, 18, a senior at Colby High School, Keith, 16, a sophomore; Roger, 14, an eighth grader at St. Mary’s; Mary, 12, a seventh grader; Sue, 10, fifty grader; Kevin, 9, third grader; Dawn, 7, second grader, Reeee, four, and Jill, two.