Angela K. Wolter

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Angela Kramer, Who always said she left part of her heart in tiny St. Maurice, Indiana when she moved to Cincinnati before World War II as a newlywed, passed away April 25 at the West Park Retirement Center. She was a feisty 105 years old.
Her husband Edward, whose barber shop was a Cheviot landmark for three decades, died in 1997. The couple had no children, but they were like doting parents to dozens of nieces, nephews and cousins.
Born Angela Kramer March 3, 1909, in Cincinnati to Frank and Mary Meymann Kramer, she grew up in St. Maurice, where her father was the village merchant. She had two older sisters, Alvina and Loretta, and three younger brothers, Bernard, Raymond and Joseph.
Her extraordinary memory of the events and circumstances of her long life seemed to sharpen with age. Denied a high school education because of a hearing disorder, she said she often ran the Kramer General Store in St. Maurice by herself. “This was in the ‘20s and ‘30s. Dad had a huckster route. I was the oldest Kramer still at home. So I got the job,” she explained. The Kramers lived above the store until it was sold to the Walpe family in 1936.
Asked at a 100th birthday party how she learned to drive, she said, “I was maybe 11 or 12. A lady drove a Model T in for a sack of grain. I told her where to back the car. She said she didn’t know how. So I got in, fiddled around, finally found reverse. Back, I went. I killed the engine when the car hit the dock. The lady got mad. She thought I’d broken her car. So, I learned a lot that day.”
An avid Cincinnati Reds fan from the team’s Crosley Field days, she seldom minced words about its ups and downs. Asked recently what she thought of new Reds manager Byran Price, she was typically direct. “He’s an improvement over Dusty, but compared to Sparky, he’s so young,” she said of the 51-year-old.
Angela was a longtime member of St. Aloysious Gonzaga Catholic Church in Bridgetown OH.
She loved to play bridge. But the Ohio transplant always said the warmest spot in her heart was reserved for her extended St. Maurice family, some of which formed a chorus during one of her recent birthday parties to sing her favorite song: “Back Home Again in Indiana.” With arms waving, she led the serenade.
They’ll likely sing it again during a memorial service for Angela at 11:00 a.m. Monday, May 5, at St. Catherine of Siena St. Maurice, 1963 North St. John, Greensburg, IN.

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Posted by Ploeger boy on June 10, 2014 (15:20)
Love you Aunt Angie

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