1992 Rudolf and Hanna Kroeger Portrait
Her classes at the retreat became increasingly large in the 80’s and 90’s. Hanna had a hard time keeping track of people. She also had a difficult time saying “no” when people called her to ask if they could come. For one class over 120 people came expecting to find a bed to sleep in. (The retreat holds about 26 beds). Her sons quickly rented several tents, cots, and blankets to accommodate them. The chapel pews were used as beds. Cots lined the hallways. People were pulled from the class for half a day to help cook in the kitchen. It was hilarious, but people loved it. Where else could you find so many close friends so quickly?
As more and more ideas came to her, she wrote more booklets. She wrote a booklet on tumors and cysts, another on heart problems, another on organ cleansing, and yet another on the use of spices for healing. Louise Hays combined many of the smaller books into two more comprehensive books. Patience was not one of Hanna’s virtues. She would spend hours, weeks, and months cutting out text from magazines or her other books, or scribbling a few pages on scratch paper. She would paste all of these into a notebook and call her friend Greg from Johnson Publishing to pick it up and put into a book. Inevitably, she would call a week later and ask him why he hadn’t delivered her proof yet.
In 1988, she was called into the courthouse by the district attorney again and was threatened with another indictment if she did not quit dowsing and advising people. Hanna decided that it was time to sell the downtown store and move. She moved the store to 57th street (closer to the retreat), and renamed it from New Age Foods to Hanna’s Herb Shop. She also started dowsing people over the telephone and soon she had to have a switch put on the phone line so she could turn it on at 7 AM (after her morning meditation) and shut it off at 7 PM (before her evening meditation). She worked 10 more years healing more people than ever through the phone line.
She died on May 7, 1998, fourteen months after Rudolf passed. She made her transition in the early hours of dawn in her sleep on the day yet another class was arriving. Her room was glowing with a golden light. Three hours after her passing, condolences came in from Japan, Saudi Arabia, Canada, as well as from all over the United States. The world had lost a great healer and a very courageous Being who served God and mankind fully, with great unwavering determination and compassion.
 Hanna Kroeger Helping People on Phone |
 Hanna Kroeger & Grandchildren |
 Dec. 1997 Portrait of Hanna Kroeger |
