Mary Ann Kollman Kramer Obituary

The Olympian
11 November 1968

Mary A. Kramer
Requiem High Mass for Mary A. Kramer will be said in St. Michael’s Catholic Church this Wednesday morning, starting at ten o’clock. A rosary will be said in the church this evening, starting at seven-thirty o’clock. Burial will take place in Calvary cemetery under direction of Mills and Mills. The family suggests that any memorials could be made in the form of donations to the Statue Fund of the Catholic Church. Mrs. Kramer died Monday in an Olympia hospital. She was the widow of Albert J. Kramer who died here in 1949. The Kramer family had farmed near Chambers Lake for many years and later lived at Black Lake. For the last several years Mrs. Kramer had made her home at 112 South Third Street in Tumwater. She was born in Platte Center, Nebraska, May 8, 1880, and was a member of St. Michael’s Catholic Church and the Navy Mother’s Club. Surviving are four sons: Edward, George, Walter and Robert, all of Olympia; six daughters; Sister Stella Marie, Anchorage, Alaska, Mrs. Helen Sharp, Mrs. Max (Gertrude) Guiberson and Mrs. Evelyn Hayes, all of Olympia; Mrs. Robert (Annie) Thompson, Rochester, and Mrs. Dale Luedtke, Monrovia, California; two sisters, Mrs. Hanna Straka and Mrs. Cecelia Strake, both of Nebraska, and 15 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren