Thelma Krull’s co-workers waiting for her to return

WINNIPEG — Thelma Krull has become a household name but for all the wrong reasons. The 57-year-old grandmother has been missing for almost three months after she never returned from a morning hike. Ever since, her co-workers at S.P.I.K.E (Special People in Kildonan East) haven’t been able to move on.

“There’s definitely a void, it’s been difficult,” Peter Court, Krull’s boss said. “I’d like to say as time goes on it gets easier but it doesn’t really.”

Court says Krull’s office is still the way she left it before she went missing on July 11. Her inspirational posters are still on the walls and her sticky notes with positive messages still on her desk, one reads, ‘the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.’

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“Her mouse pad, that’s her daughter and grandson, her pictures, her radio,” Court said, pointing at items on Krull’s desk. “We’ve had to bring someone in part-time to do Thelma’s work but I’m not ready to fill her position.”

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Thelma worked across the hall from Sue Dell, “We’d carry on a conversation all day long through the wall here. Yeh, I miss her dearly,” Dell said. “I’ll actually get up and be at her door, like ready to tell her something, say something or ask her a question and realized she’s not here.”

Krull managed the companies website, planned fundraisers and paid the bills for S.P.I.K.E, an organization that helps people with special needs in Winnipeg.

“Where is she? we don’t know, is she coming back? we don’t know,” Court said. “We’ll just keep hoping that she’s fine and she will be coming back.”

In a place she spent much of her time, time seems to stand still. Moving on isn’t something they’re ready to do.

“She’s missed and she’s not forgotten,” Court said, “she’s still our employee.”

Over time, missing person posters across the city have faded or gone missing. People are asked to help put up fresh posters this Saturday at 11am.  Volunteers will meet at the Tim Hortons on Plessis Road.

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