Businessman, inventor.
Born on 5 October 1891, son of Polish immigrants John Krushel (1867-1951) and Bertha Yeske (1870-1951), brother of Henry Krushel, his family migrated to Plum Coulee in 1892 and later to the Morden area. He opened a blacksmith and repair shop at Morden, where in the early 1930s he invented the “Krushel Krusher”, a superior machine for crushing grain. In time, he added augers, grain loaders, cement mixers, stoves, furnaces, and hammer mills to his product line and founded Standard Gas Engine Works Limited. Under his son-in-law John E. Buhler, the company became Buhler Industries.
He was married twice, first to Martha Kurtz (1898-1961) with whom he had nine children: Herman Krushel (1918-2009), Ida Krushel (1919-2001, wife of Fred Buchholz), Ernest “Ernie” Krushel (1921-2003), Hertha Krushel (1923-1923), Leonard Krushel (c1926-2009), David “Dave” Krushel (1927-1965), Danie Krushel (1933-2010), Ruth Krushel (1934-2024, wife of John E. Buhler), and Dorothy Krushel (1938-2017, wife of Don Nagadzina). In 1961, he married widow Susan Schroeder Hiebert (1894-1988).
He died at his Morden home on 30 October 1984 and was buried in the Morden Hillside Cemetery.
See also:
Manitoba Business: Standard Gas Engine Works / Farm King / Buhler Industries
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 2 November 1984, page 42.
Obituary [Herman Krushel], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 August 2009.
Obituary [Danie Krashel], Wiebe Funeral Homes.
Adolph Krushel, FindAGrave.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 October 2026
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