Date : 12 Aug 1987
Location : St. Charles Center Cemetery, Carthagena, OH
The Rev. Herbert Gerard Kramer, C.PP.S., 80, died Sunday at Community Hospital, Coldwater.
Fr. Kramer was born May 4, 1907, in St. Henry, the son of William and Mary (Pagel) Kramer. He is survived by two brothers, Jacob Kramer, Coldwater; and Joseph Kramer, Erie, Pa., and three sisters, Margaret Knapke, St. Henry, Anna Klosterman, Edgerton, and Kathryn Kramer, Cleveland.
He entered the Society or the Precious Blood in Burkettsville on Sept 9, 1921, and was ordained into the priesthood May 14, 1933, at St. Charles Seminary, Carthagena. He held an STD in Moral Theology.
In 1933 his first assignment was at St. Brendan Parish in Brooklyn. N.Y. as parochial vicar. He then taught moral theology at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., and served at St. James parish and St. Marys Hospital in West Virginia. In 1936 he served Holy Trinity parish and St. Rose Convent in LaCrosse, Wis., and then became archivist and faculty member at St. Charles Seminary.
He served as pastor at St. Theresa Church, Rockford, from 1942-45 and was elected Provincial Secretary of the Precious Blood society in 1947. He was elected moderator general of the General Assembly in Rome, Italy, in 1947 and was sent to St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Hannibal, Mo. in 1959.
Fr. Kramer then served as pastor Of St. Andrew Church in Tipton, Mo., in 1966, and as ex-officio delegate to the General Chapter in Rome, in 1969. He was named instructor at St. Thomas Seminary in Hannibal in 1971, and that same year was an ex-officio delegate to the General Assembly in Salzburg, Austria.
He retired in 1975, in Florida, but continued to serve as parochial vicar in residence to St. Jerome Parish in Florida, then an associate chaplain in St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima, in 1980 and as parochial vicar in residence at Immaculate Conception parish, Ottoville in 1983 and at St. Michael's parish in Kalida in 1984.
He retired to St. Charles Seminary in June, 1986.
A reception of the body was held Tuesday at St. Charles Seminary. With a funeral mass to be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. Celebrant will be the Rev. Thomas Albers.
Hogenkamp's Funeral Home, Coldwater, has charge of arrangements.
Mercer County Chronicle - Aug 12, 1987
