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 Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 10:39 am Post subject: Passing of Bill Kramer |
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Sad news to tell you. Monday evening, May 24th, around 5:30 Bill Kramer passed away from congestive heart failure. He'd returned to his house a little over two weeks before from the hospital and was being cared for by one of his daughters, Karen O'Connell, and his niece, Andrea under the guidance of hospice care. His other daughter, Carol Koch, had been going down frequently as well to spend time with him and cook and care for him. Both of us and Karen's family - Chris (Karen's husband) and Andrea, had spent Sunday with him. Karen and Chris were with him when he died Monday evening.
We all knew it was coming, but it's still very sad. He'd had a long and interesting life, especially the fifteen years or so when his world seemed to revolve around biking. He'd gone on so many interesting, long rides in the US and even in Mexico and Central America with his biking friends. He was a WWII veteran, spending much of the war in Europe - luckily not in combat. His house is filled with large landscape paintings that he'd done mostly in the 70's and early 80's, as well as with all kinds of beautiful, often unusual furniture that he'd built - mostly out of walnut - he was an amateur inventor. He'd kept several dozen finches and other birds in a large outdoor aviary that he built several years ago, and he loved gardening as well.
We'll miss him.
Steve Koch (Bill's son-in-law)
If you have any questions please feel welcome to call
Carol Koch at (626) 441-1419. sckmail@earthlink.net
Bill was BCI# 1139 & joined us in June 1990 |
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