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ramer Family.
Rolland Cramer was clerk of the Village of Forest in the early 1930s. He was defeated in January, 1936 by A.F. Barteldt.
Elmer Cramer’s costume in the 1954 Forest Centennial Parade was quite a crowd pleaser. Back in 1952 he was in the annual Minstrel Group presented by the Forest High School Band Mothers.
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| Group Minstrel |
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| Centennial Celebration |
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| Elmer and Charlie (c1927) |
Referenced in the Minstrel article are Carol Switzer, Elmer Cramer, Lowell McKinley, Elmer Jones, Lowell Miller, John McEntee, George Kenworthy, Ralph Balmer, Ralph Fernbaugh, Erna Simpson, Beth Ann Alguire, Pat McKinley, Marcia Staley, Shirley Patrick, Marilyn Anderson, Donna Robinson, Esther Sellers, Audrey Switzer, Maxine Thompson, Audrey Thompson, Donna Miller, Shirley Kalb, Janet Rockwell, Ladona Tracy, Evelyn Tracy, Mary Jane Forney, Carolyn Clinger, Rosena Kaser, Marcia Packer, Ida Packer, Pat Peart, Wanda Musgrave, Eileen Thiel, Mary Lou Smithson, Lois McMaster, Sharlene Spearman, Betty Lou Jones, Sally Edgington, Phyllis Jones, Carolee Curran, Roxy Landon, Carol Lehman, Mona Ruth Fortney, Joan Weber, Richard Wilcox, Earl Buess, Paul Stanley, Don Wilkenson, Clyde Harold, Harry Clinger, Bob Johnson, Louis Latham, LeRoy Latham, and Ralph Balmer.
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| Goldie Cramer (c1940) |
Goldie Cramer was born in Ohio February 21, 1927. She married Howard, son of Robert Clay & Edith Naomi (Lehman) Stephan, sometime after 1945. She died May 1, 1997 at the age of 70 in Forest.
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| Cannon (1916) |
Sitting on the "Columbiad" cannon in Gormley Park are Robert Lehman and John Dewitte. Robert grew up to become a printer with The Cleveland Press before his death in 1991. John Dewitte moved to California. The Columbiad and its 100 pound shot were used in the defence of New York during the Revolutionary War.1 It was also used in the Civil War of 1861-65. On the reoccurrence of interest in the Civil War a cannon fund of $150 was raised by Tommy Sherron, a village policeman and Civil War veteran who was bitten and died of rabies before seeing the cannon installed. Jac Cramer, along with Henry Schott, Robert Dunham, Levy Young, John Burdett, Bud Robinson, W.M. George, Nick Haffer, John Guyer, Alonzo Yant, and George Purdy unloaded and hauled the cannon to the park in 1906.
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1Defence of New-York. Western American (Williamsburg, OH) 17 Dec 1814, Vol. 1, Issue 21, p.3.