Obit: Cram, Ernest Glen (1902 - 1957)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 
 

Surnames: Cram, Hardi, Bartz, Murphy, LaBonnty, Schultz, Van Gorden, Wall, Wren, Zickert, Briggs, Holmes, Straskowski 
 

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) February 14, 1957 
 

Cram, Ernest Glen (28 October 1902 - 9 February 1957) 
 

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from the Bergemann Funeral Home for Ernest Glen Cram, 54, of Neillsville, who died Saturday following a heart attack while working on the Felix Straskowski farm at R 2 Thorp.

Mr. Cram had been working in the hay mow of the barn when the seizure took place.  He was found by the Straskowski’s son.  He had been employed there for only about two weeks. 
 

Services were conducted by the Rev. Virgil Holmes of the First Methodist Church and burial was made in the Neillsville City Cemetery. 
 

Mr. Cram was born October 28, 1902, in the Town of Mentor.  He went to the Humbird School, and then worked for a time in Milwaukee before coming to Neillsville.  On December 5, 1923, he was married to Antonia Hardi, who survives. 
 

Also surviving are five children: Ernest of Oshkosh; Mrs. Marlen (Clara) Bartz of Franksville; Richard of Neillsville; Mrs. Floyd (Caroline) Murphy, Milwaukee; and Arthur of Neillsville; nine grandchildren and two sisters also survive.  The sisters are: Mrs. Leo (Elsie) LaBonnty, and Miss Myrtle Cram. 
 

Pallbearers were: Herman Schultz, Paul Schultz, Kenneth Van Gorden, Fred E. Wall, Gilbert Wren and Frank Zickert.  H. Randolph Briggs, accompanied by his daughter, Sharry, sang two numbers. 
 

Out of town relatives attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cram and family of Oshkosh; Mr. and Mrs. Milan Bartz and family of Franksville; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Murphy of Milwaukee; and Charles Hardy of Oshkosh.