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Mrs. Cramer’s Funeral Thursday

Service Held at 2:00 O’clock at the First Baptist Church With the Ritual of the American Legion Auxiliary

The body of Mrs. L. L. Cramer was brought here from Viborg, S.D. last Wednesday and taken to the home of her aunt, Mrs. J. B. Carter, until time for the service Thursday afternoon at the Baptist church, at which Rev. Carl G. Bader, of the Methodist church officiated.

The following obituary was written by Mrs. J. P. Jensen.

Marian Carter (Mrs. Lloyd I. Cramer) was born in Blair Feb. 2, 1889. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carter and her mother died while she was yet in infancy and she was reared to womanhood by her aunt, Miss Dora Carter, who gave her every care in thought and education that an own mother could give a beloved daughter. She attended the Blair high school and was a graduate of the Omaha General hospital and training school for nurses.

On Nov. 26, 1943, she was married to Dr. Lloyd L. Cramer and they moved from Omaha to Harrison, Neb., living there five years, after which they both entered the service of their country. Dr. Cramer going to the Medical corps of the army and Mrs. Cramer a Red Cross nurse in the R.O.T.C. camps of the military service.

She served all through the flu epidemic in the same faithful and courageous manner that she inter served “For God and Country,” in the ranks of the Legion and the Legion Auxiliary. Leaving Camp Funston, Kansas, after Armistice day, the couple moved to Viborg, S. D. and established their home where they have since lived.

Mrs. Cramer died suddenly at the hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D. after a short illness. Mrs. Cramer, was prominent in the American Legion Auxiliary and active in all its undertakings. She served as president of Allendale unit, No. 115 and as a district worker.

She was next elected to the office of department president, a very high honor in Auxiliary circles, and served with such success and gave so great a service to the disabled at Battle Mountain and other hospitals in South Dakota, that she was next chosen to represent the state on the national board and Legion Auxiliary and was very highly regarded in all their nationals councils.

She was national committee-woman at the time of her death.

She established the poppy industry at Battle Mountain Sanitarium in 1926, this industry serving to establish an income for the helpless and sick men of the World war who were at the hospital and still uncompensated by the government.

These poppies are shipped to several states for Memorial day sales and poppy day sales and are the only means of livelihood thousands of service men and their dependents still have. This work will be a monument to her life in the Auxiliary.

She is survived by her husband, her daughter, Marylyn, two sisters, five brothers and her devoted aunt, Miss Dora Carter, a stepmother, Mrs. Minerva Carter, of Blair and a large number of relatives and close friends in the city and state of her childhood.

Services were held in her honor at Viborg Tuesday and the sad family then started home to Blair with the body of Mrs. Cramer.

A Legion escort consisting of the commander, Mr. Penny, of Viborg, the department adjutant, Mr. Flake of Watertown , the acting president of the department of the Auxiliary Mrs. W. Bannister, of Sioux Falls, accompanied the body home.

Representatives of Stanley E. Hain post, No. 154, The American Legion of Blair met the delegation, together with the unit officers with the colors and Mrs. J. P. Jensen past department officer of the Auxiliary and present Dist. President Service officer of the American Legion department of Nebraska.

By a sad coincidence the departmental officer, Mrs. Jensen, was a kinswoman of Mrs. Cramer and assisted in the sad rites of the auxiliary when all that was mortal of Mrs. Cramer was laid to rest.

Rev. Carl Bader and the Stanley E. Hain unit had charge of the services at her burial. Hain post officers acted as honorary escort. Dakota departmental officers also marching with the Legion here. Full honors were given her. Ritual services led by Mrs. Jensen, ranking department officer, Ms. J. E. Campbell unit president Mrs. Chas. McComb, chaplain, Mrs. J. H. Bowman past president and Mrs. Blatter, secy., were held.

Gifford Dixon, a Legion comrade, sang two beautiful numbers and Soren Jensen, jr., sounded “taps” at the graveside. The order of the eastern Star, McKinley chapter, concluded the burial services at the cemetery with the Legion and unit standing at attention with the colors.

The floral tributes were numerous, profuse and beautiful in the extreme. Units, posts and department of Dakota sent wonderful wreaths, as did the “40 and 8” and the “8 and 40”, the women of the Red Cap citation organization of the Legion.

The departmental officers of Neb. Messrs Roscoe Conklin, of Lincoln, Mr. Jean Cain, of Falls City and Mrs. J. P. Jensen, of Blair, sent a beautiful sheaf of lilies tied with red, white and blue ribbons as a tribute from the whole Nebraska department to Dakota department in their great loss. The departmental and district officers all rendered beautiful tributes of flowers and tributes in words at the services.

On behalf of Nebraska and Blair, Mrs. Jensen thanked the Dakota Legion for bringing home to rest beside her relatives and the pioneers her kinsmen and women who had founded our city, “Our Marion”, the name by which she was known and loved by the Legion and Auxiliary in Dakota.

The sympathy of the city and Legion goes out to all the bereaved ones in this their loss and hour of sorrow.

Another article March 1928

Marian Carter Cramer Dead

Former Blair Girl Died at Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., of Kidney Trouble

Mrs. L. L. Cramer, of Viborg, S. D., passed away at a hospital in Sioux Falls, S. D., last Saturday evening between 5 and o’clock of uremic poisoning, following several operations for kidney trouble.

The body is to be brought here today and will be taken to the John Carter home awaiting the funeral service, which will be held at the Baptist church at 2 o’clock tomorrow, Thursday afternoon, with burial in the Blair cemetery.

Marian Carter was born at the old C. M. Carter farm, northwest of Blair, Feb. 2nd, 1889, so was just past 39 years of age. Her mother was Lizzie Stewart, a daughter of the late Jas. S. Stewart, a sister of Mort Stewart, of this city, whose death occurred just three weeks after Marian’s birth.

She was taken by her aunt, Miss Dora Carter and raised to girlhood. She was educated in the city schools and was a member of the High school class in 1906 but never graduated. She took nurses training and was graduated from the General, now Lord Lister, hospital in Omaha, where she met her future husband, Dr. L. L. Cramer, who was an interne at the hospital while she was there.

She was married to Dr. Cramer Nov. 27th, 1913, and they located at Viborg, S.D. They had no children of their own and some five years ago they adopted a girl at the age of three, Marylan, who will be 8 years old in July.

Besides the husband and Marylan she is survived by one sister, Myrtle, Mrs. H. F. Fowler, of Omaha, Ralph, of Chicago, and Claude, of Centralia, Wash. Another brother, Alfred, who gained quite a reputation as an engineer, died in York City several years ago. Also her stepmother, Mrs. Minerva Carte, one half-sister, Mrs. Orlo Jones, of Lincoln, and three half brothers, Jacob, of Casper, Wyo., Dudley, of Bacone, Okla., and Douglas, who lives with his mother in this city.

Mrs. Cramer was prominent in Eastern Star and Legion Auxiliary circles. She was Matron of the eastern Star Chapter in Viborg and was state president of the Auxiliary of South Dakota last year. She was also the national committee woman for South Dakota, thus making her ranking Auxiliary officer in the state.

The Auxiliary from Stanley E. Hain Post of the American Legion here will hold their ritual service at the church following the regular service, and the Eastern star will conduct the burial service at the cemetery.

Note: Find a Grave has her death date March 17, 1928

~There is an additional newspaper on file published in the Enterprise. It does not have any additional information.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~