Kramer, Clarence O. 1889-1947

KRAMER, KOHLMEIER, HANSEN, BLANSHAN

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 3/24/2012 at 08:34:51

BODY OF FORMER REMSENITE FOUND. Clarence Kramer, Missing 8 Months, Found Near St. Peter, Minnesota.
The Kramer families of Remsen and Windom, Minn., are in sorrow over the tragic death of Clarence O. Kramer, son of Mrs. Anna Kramer, of Remsen and the father of six children, which occurred recently near St. Peter, Minn. the remains were brought to Remsen last Thursday, August 14; burial services were held Saturday afternoon, August 16. Mr. Kramer was 57 years old.
Clarence, who had worked as a meat cutter in a locker plant in St. Peter for several years, disappeared eight months ago. Last week the waters of a nearby river yielded up the body that soon was identified, said the Remsen Bell-Enterprise.
Clarence Kramer, second son of the late John and Mrs. Anna Kramer, was born in Remsen December 4, 1889, and attended Remsen high school. He married Rose Kohlmeier there, and soon the couple settled on a farm near Platte, S. D., owned by his parents, and on which they lived for a number of years. Later Mr. Kramer, who learned the meat cutting trade in his father’s shop in Remsen, went into that line of work and lived a various places in South Dakota and Minnesota. For ten years he worked at the trade in Windom, where the family resides.
Surviving are four daughters and a son, namely Mrs. Tilford (Pearl) Hansen, Mrs. Opal Blanshan, Oscar and Miss Joyce, all of Windom, and Mrs. Fay (Ruth) Van Norman of Glendale, Calif. Surviving also is his mother, Mrs. Anna Kramer; his brother, George, W. Kramer of Remsen; and his sisters, Mrs. Louise Van den Brink of Remsen, Miss Nell Kramer of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Paul Roberts of Aberdeen, Wash., and Mrs. Anna Meaver, in relief work in China.
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Paul Wuebben in the Moeller funeral home Saturday afternoon, August 16, at 2:30 with burial in the Remsen cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were Clayton and Milo Harnack, nephews of the deceased man, and Irving H. Schulte and E.F. Kieffer boyhood schoolmates. – Le Mars Globe Post, Aug. 25, 1947, page 1.