IVAN O. KRAMER

Funeral service for Ivan Oliver Kramer, 2105 Good Hope, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Bishop Drew Laudie and President Charles Tate will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. Sunday, and at the church Monday from 12:30-1 p.m.

Kramer, 84, died Thursday, March 2, 1995, at the Lutheran Home.

He was born Oct. 15, 1910, in Chicago, son of Ivan M. and Della Turner Kramer. He and Lillian "Jerri" Huckstep were married Sept. 28, 1929, in Jonesboro, Ill.

Kramer moved to Cape Girardeau in 1925. He had worked for his father's company, Kramer Furnace Co.; at Marquette Cement Co.; A.E. Birk and Son, and then formed a 20-year heating and air conditioning partnership with Carlton Lorberg through Lorberg Appliance Co. After retiring in 1972 he worked part time on equipment maintenance for VIP Industries.

He was in Civil Service during World War II, working with the U.S. Air Force at Tyndal Field in Panama City, Fla.; Wright-Patterson Field in Ohio, and as foreman of the sheet metal department at Dyersburg Air Base in Tennessee.

Kramer was one of the first members of the Mormon church in the area, and was the first resident of Cape Girardeau to receive the priesthood. He was a counselor in the Southeast Missouri District Presidency, was a missions ordinance worker in the Washington, D.C., Temple, and worked in missions in the Chicago Temple.

When the local units of the church were organized into a stake in 1985, he was the first patriarch of the Cape Girardeau Stake and served until 1994.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Jack O. Kramer of Cape Girardeau; a daughter, Karen Kramer of Salt Lake City, Utah; a sister, Frances Cargle of Cape Girardeau; a brother, Richard Kramer of Idyllwild, Calif.; a grandson, and three great-grandchildren.