Hazel Euler, 86, owner, retired head cashier and housewares buyer at Euler True Value Hardware in Bridgeview, died Friday in King Bruwaert House in Burr Ridge. Mrs. Euler was born and raised in Evergreen Park. As a young woman, she went to work at Euler Pie and Pastry Shop in the Brainard neighborhood of Chicago, where she met Karl Euler. They were married from 1936 until his death in 1984. They sold the bakery in 1950 and opened a hardware store in Oak Lawn, then moved it to Bridgeview in 1960. The family resettled in Western Springs in 1952. Mrs. Euler had stopped working in the store while their three children were young, then returned to the business as head cashier and housewares buyer in the mid-1950s. Euler Hardware became a True Value store in 1962 and in 1977, Mrs. Euler’s son, Karl, opened another Euler True Value Hardware store in Downers Grove. Mrs. Euler retired in 1992. One year ago, she moved into the King Bruwaert House retirement center. “My mom and dad worked 70 or 80 hours a week and didn’t do much else, except for the family. That’s the way they did things in those days,” Karl Euler said. She is also survived by two daughters, Beverly Gallagher and Betty Bruce; a sister; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Hallowell & James Funeral Home, 1025 W. 55th St., Countryside.
