DOROTHY B. KRUG

The running joke within the family was that if someone offered a trip to Hades, Dorothy B. Krug would be in line to buy the first ticket because that’s how fond she was of traveling. But her wanderlust was more than just an itch to get away from home.

“It was the joke of the family because she loved to travel,” cousin Clark H. Carter said. “And it was always travel that was culturally or educationally oriented. She would never in her wildest dreams go to Las Vegas or the beach or some Caribbean resort. It was always Paris or Prague or some other place that was art or history oriented.”

Ms. Krug died June 10 at the Broadmead, a retirement community in Cockeysville, due to the coronavirus. She was 99.

Ms. Krug was the only child of Andrew Krug, a teacher, and Elsie Clark Krug, a Methodist missionary and import business owner. The family lived in the 2200 block of St. Paul Street across the street from the downtown campus of Goucher College. “My playground was the Goucher lawn,” Ms. Krug was quoted saying in a college spotlight on alumni.

Ms. Krug graduated from Friends School in 1937 and then Goucher in 1941. Two years later, she joined a fledgling investment firm called T. Rowe Price as one of five employees on the 29th floor of the Baltimore Trust Building.

“She was a loyal and devoted employee,” Mr. Carter said from his home in Baltimore. “I think in the early years with the business on a shoestring that later on became very successful, those early employees were compensated not by pay, but by ownership in the business. That made her financially independent. So she was certainly happy about that. But she was very devoted to what she did. She really did enjoy it.”

Initially hired as a secretary, Ms. Krug rose through the ranks to become the company’s first female vice president in charge of personnel before retiring in1976.

“She knew that she had come a long way from being a secretary to being an executive officer, and she was very proud of that,” Mr. Carter said.

Ginny Grauel, an independent caregiver for Ms. Krug from 1991 to 1999, recalled Ms. Krug asking her to participate in an interview before Ms. Krug would hire her. “Nobody had ever said that to me,” Mrs. Grauel said with a laugh. “She made me nervous. She was asking me all of these formal questions such as how long I had been in the business. Then she questioned what I charged because she didn’t like what I charged and she didn’t like the fact that I charged for gas and mileage. She didn’t know me at that point,