Patricia Hale Krotzer

She was the first of two children. Patricia grew up in Webster City, Iowa and graduated Webster City High School in 1956.

She worked at Fort Dodge Laboratories in her early professional years and earned her Bachelor of Science in Bacteriology with a minor in Chemistry from Iowa State University in 1970. In 1974 she earned her Master of Science in Immunology from Iowa State University while working at Veterinary Medical Research Institute in Ames, Iowa.

After graduation, West Virginia University Medical Center recruited her to join their research lab in Morgantown, West Virginia. She spent four years working as a bio-diagnostician. While there, the research team helped solve the case of the 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak. In the early 1980’s she pursued an M.B.A at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR.

In 1978 Pat moved to Rogers, Arkansas where she worked for Pel-Freeze Biologicals as a Quality Assurance Manager. Her work included the development of new products. She founded her own biotechnological company, ImmunoVision in 1985 where she developed a process to purify autoimmune antigens for diagnostic kits to help doctors better diagnose patients. These tests are shipped to various countries around the world. She later sold the company and it still exists as ImmunoVision in a broader form today.

After the sale of ImmunoVision, Pat consulted for a number of Bio-Tech companies and simultaneously started a new company, Biovantage, at the University of Arkansas small business incubator program. Seeking funding for food safety test development was not successful and the venture terminated.

Pat returned to Pel-Freeze and worked in both domestic and international sales until fully vested for retirement. Afterwards, Pat and Dan managed PC Turnkey, Inc., an information technology company they owned together. In 2013, they started Prosperity Acres, Inc., an agriculture production and research farm. Her desire to produce organically grown food resulted in her entering the field of aquaponics. Together they designed and constructed a research facility for the development of an economical method of year round organic food production. The project is currently constructing a pilot production facility in the community of Sunset, Arkansas where Pat and Dan lived together beginning in 2017.

Pat loved being in her home on Sunset Mountain enjoying the multitude species of birds and butterflies, numerous deer, and in the company of the loving, supportive community there. A member of the Mensa Society, she loved Star Trek and was delighted to have a Star Trek jacket made just for her. Activities included apiary, gardening, zumba. She was a minister and enjoyed studying spiritual topics and energy healing. Pat will be remembered as a fun, feisty, loving, rebellious, intelligent visionary person ahead of her time, with festive hats. She told several people, “My vision is to contribute to this planet; to make a difference in the medical diagnostic community.”

Pat was preceded in death by her parents, and her brother, James William Baldwin.

Survivors include husband, James Daniel Krotzer; two daughters, LeAnne Hale Gioeli and husband, John, and Lucinda Hale Hanover and husband, Doug; step-son, Scott Krotzer and wife Amber; step-daughter, Karla Krotzer; nine grandchildren, Melissa Solomon, Christopher Karwick, Vanessa Wallace and her husband, Adam, Brandon Clark and his wife, Cheryl, Gabrielle Huffstutler and her husband, Gabriel John, Justin Gioeli, Jade Krotzer, Jasper Krotzer, and Miron Krotzer; and her seven great grandchildren, Isaiah, Ty, Jonah and Gabriel Solomon, Noah and Sylvie Huffstutler and Jordan Clark.

Viewing will be on Friday, September 21, 2018 from 5:00 -7:00 p.m. at Rollins Funeral Home, 1401 W Hudson Rd, Rogers, Arkansas. A celebration of Pat’s life will be held at the Old Schoolhouse in Sunset community, 19266 Miller Road, Winslow, AR on Saturday November 10, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. Visit https://goo.gl/maps/MwNE9oQq1bv for directions and location.