Obituary for Linda Krapohl Gray
Linda Krapohl Gray (1947-2021)
Linda was born in Bay City, Michigan on February 18, 1947. The family moved to Mt. Pleasant in 1953 when her father Harold and her Uncle Bob started the Krapohl Ford Sales Company. She graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School with the class of 1965, and that fall began classes at Western Michigan University. Two years later she moved to Newport Beach in California and graduated from Long Beach State with a degree in accounting—a field that defined her professional life.
In 1971 she was hired by Air California to work in their accounting department and by 1981 she became the Director of Revenue Accounting and Internal Audit. Linda was widely respected by her counterparts in the airline industry. She was elected as a voting member of the Airline Revenue Accounting Committee of the Air Transport Association, representing over 100 airlines. In 1986 she left Air Cal to start KGD Systems to provide a full-service revenue accounting product that included software, hardware, and skilled revenue accounting labor and management. Over the past 35 years KGD Systems provided dozens of airlines with turn-key Airline Revenue Accounting Services.
In addition to KGD Systems, Linda had many passions. She loved entertaining friends and family at her home in Corona del Mar, enjoying the boat parades from her balcony, driving her little electric Duffy boat around Balboa Island and the many inlets, going to horse races at Santa Anita, betting on college and pro-football games in the fall, and being part of her church community. Regardless of place…her kindness, contagious smile, and energy defined her.
Despite the distance between California and Michigan, family ties knew no limits. She was preceded in death by her special parents, Harold and Marie Krapohl, her buddy of a brother-in-law Gary Knight, her niece’s son Tommy Watson. She is survived by her partner in business and in life, Jim Kubiak; her twin brother Tom Krapohl (Mary), sister Sue Knight (Gary), five nieces: Dana Brophy (Howard), Kara Watters (Danny), Sarah Watson, Carly Fuller (Joe), and Vicki Pugsley (Paul); and one nephew, Spencer Krapohl, along with eleven grand nieces and nephews—all of whom called her “Aunt Luly.”
A private service was held for the family in Mt. Pleasant on November 13th. Any donations in her memory can be made to Lutheran Church of the Master, 2900 Pacific View Drive, Corona del Mar, CA 92625.
Linda was born in Bay City, Michigan on February 18, 1947. The family moved to Mt. Pleasant in 1953 when her father Harold and her Uncle Bob started the Krapohl Ford Sales Company. She graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School with the class of 1965, and that fall began classes at Western Michigan University. Two years later she moved to Newport Beach in California and graduated from Long Beach State with a degree in accounting—a field that defined her professional life.
In 1971 she was hired by Air California to work in their accounting department and by 1981 she became the Director of Revenue Accounting and Internal Audit. Linda was widely respected by her counterparts in the airline industry. She was elected as a voting member of the Airline Revenue Accounting Committee of the Air Transport Association, representing over 100 airlines. In 1986 she left Air Cal to start KGD Systems to provide a full-service revenue accounting product that included software, hardware, and skilled revenue accounting labor and management. Over the past 35 years KGD Systems provided dozens of airlines with turn-key Airline Revenue Accounting Services.
In addition to KGD Systems, Linda had many passions. She loved entertaining friends and family at her home in Corona del Mar, enjoying the boat parades from her balcony, driving her little electric Duffy boat around Balboa Island and the many inlets, going to horse races at Santa Anita, betting on college and pro-football games in the fall, and being part of her church community. Regardless of place…her kindness, contagious smile, and energy defined her.
Despite the distance between California and Michigan, family ties knew no limits. She was preceded in death by her special parents, Harold and Marie Krapohl, her buddy of a brother-in-law Gary Knight, her niece’s son Tommy Watson. She is survived by her partner in business and in life, Jim Kubiak; her twin brother Tom Krapohl (Mary), sister Sue Knight (Gary), five nieces: Dana Brophy (Howard), Kara Watters (Danny), Sarah Watson, Carly Fuller (Joe), and Vicki Pugsley (Paul); and one nephew, Spencer Krapohl, along with eleven grand nieces and nephews—all of whom called her “Aunt Luly.”
A private service was held for the family in Mt. Pleasant on November 13th. Any donations in her memory can be made to Lutheran Church of the Master, 2900 Pacific View Drive, Corona del Mar, CA 92625.