Ann Eliza Kramer Kerr

 

Last updated 8/1/2016 at 5:01pm

Ann Kerr, 99, was born to Michael Kramer and Elizabeth (Griffith Kramer) Lewellen in the family's farmhouse outside of Downs on May 11, 1917 and passed away from a stroke on July 23, 2016 at Providence Portland Medical Center.

She was the seventh of nine children (Ted, Alvin, Ceicel, Clarence, Richard, Myrtle, Ann, Dan and Grace Kramer) and attended elementary school in the Downs and Lamona areas close to Ritzville. She attended high school in Toledo and Ferndale, Wash., graduating from Custer High School in 1935. Ann married Morley Kerr February 9, 1936, making their home in the Lower Yakima Valley and raising five children.

They farmed there for many years, moving to Othello in the mid-1950s and retiring in the late '70s. Ann and Morley joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in January of 1954, and both were very active in the Sunnyside, Moses Lake and Othello churches. Some of her leadership roles were deaconess, sabbath school superintendent and church treasurer, but the role she enjoyed and loved the most was being a Pathfinder Leader. She took kids on outings of all kinds, camping and Pathfinder camporees. She taught many classes in honor badges, earning many herself.

In 1975-76, Ann and Morley participated in the Bi-Centennial Wagon Train traveling from Blaine, Wash. to Valley Forge, Pa. in a mule-drawn covered wagon. After returning, Ann wrote a book "Eastward Ho" about the experience.

At age 90 she moved to Pendleton, Ore. to live with daughter Sandy and family. Mrs. Kerr was proceeded in death by her parents, her husband Morley Kerr, all eight of her siblings, two daughters Nila (Kerr) Cusic and Janice Eastridge, three sons-in-law George Price Colley, Robert (Bob) Eastridge and Orv Simmons and two great-grandsons Bobby Jo (BJ) Eastridge and Terry Lee Eastridge.

Ann is survived by daughters Shirley Colley of Othello, Sandy (Mike) Burrows of Pendleton and one son Marvin (Joyce) Kerr, Sr. of Jupiter, Fla.

Funeral arrangements will be held at 11 a.m. on Aug. 8, 2016, at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Othello. To leave an online condolence to the family, please visit http://www.stevensfc.com.

 

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