Services
service
February 13, 1996
Tuesday
10:30 AM
First Lutheran Church - Britt
Obituary
Ernest Leo Cramer, son of Henry Cramer and Sophie Minnie (Moldenhauer) Cramer, was born at Duncan, Iowa, on April 17, 1905. At the age of one year Ernie moved with his family to Ellendale, North Dakota where he attended country school. At the age of 12 years the family again moved, this time to Battle Lake, Minnesota where Ernie farmed with his father until 1928. He then moved to the LuVerne area where he worked as a farmhand. He continue in this occupation working on farms in the Kanawha, Corwith, Wesley areas until December 18, 1940, when he married Laura Kirchgatter at the Lutheran Church in LuVerne.
Laura and Ernie began farming north of Britt and lived there 10 years before moving to the farm west of Kanawha where they farmed until about 1970, at which time Ernie retired because of failing health. Ernie's beloved Laura passed away February 22, 1976, and Ernie's health problems persisted. He entered the Kanawha Community Home in September of 1976, where he pursued an interest in woodworking.
Ernie's sisters are Laura Jespersen and her husband, Bob and their children of Pleasant Hill, CA, and Lucille Carson and her children of Sacramento, CA.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Adolph and Louis.