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Twyla Lee Long Kramer

3 Jul 1928 – 18 Dec 2018

Birth3 Jul 1928
Death18 Dec 2018
CemeteryMcCain Cemetery
Gandy , Logan County , Nebraska , USA
Added byGary Geiselman on 06 May 2023
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Bio

Twyla Lee Kramer, 90, of Stapleton, passed away Dec. 18, 2018, at Great Plains Health. Twyla was born on July 3, 1928 in Arnold, to Porter and Emma (Potter) Long, the youngest of 10 children. She attended school at Stapleton Public School and married Charles Paul “Skinner” Kramer on Oct. 27, 1945. To their union four children were born: Sandra Lee, Paul Eugene “Butch,” Gary Dean and Kenneth Lyle. She lived most of her life in several locations in Logan County and in 1996 she and Skinner moved into their new home on what was known as the Lehmkuler place, located 7 miles southwest of Stapleton. She was a busy farmer’s wife, doing all that was required on the farm: cooking, helping in the fields during harvest, cooking, branding, and cooking — you get the picture! She loved to cook, in large quantities. The more the merrier. It was hard to get a recipe from her as she referred to herself as a dip and dab cook. A little dip here and a little dab there. She loved it when the boys went pheasant hunting, because she loved fried pheasant and biscuits and gravy. She moved to Lake Maloney in 2011 and had recently moved into Linden Estates Assisted Living. Twyla loved life in general, a good card game, and she could really tell a joke. She loved dancing; the whole family would go to barn dances, only they were Quonset dances. Any neighbors putting up a new Quonset would have to have a party to break it in right. She especially loved her grandkids and said each one of them had a special way about themselves that she always remembered. If you were a friend of the family, she was your kid’s grandma too. She had a scavenger hunt one year at Easter and ended up doing it for several years because the grandkids loved it so much. This wasn’t just in the front yard either, it was all over the farm. She never met a stranger and was very active in the community. She enjoyed working at the school for several years, was a member of the Presbyterian Church, a founding member of Banner Mother’s Extension Club, belonged to the VFW Auxiliary, was Red Cross chairperson, a hospice volunteer, Logan County Fair Board chairperson and sat on the Policy Advisers Board at the Senior Center in North Platte. Many of you will remember her as the owner and cook of Western Sale Barn Café in North Platte from 1988 until she retired in 1996. She was preceded in death by her parents, Port and Emma Long; Skinner, her husband of 57 years; infant son, Gary Dean; special friend, Leroy Fritzler; nine siblings; and several brothers and sisters-in-law. Twyla is survived by three children, Sandra Lee (Jerry) Cook of Coolidge, Arizona, Paul Eugene “Butch” (Diane) Kramer of Mount Airy, North Carolina, Kenneth Lyle (Angie) Kramer of Stapleton; 11 grandkids, Cory (Lynne) Cook of Lincoln, Ramona (Gabe) Brown of North Platte, Laura (Nick) Romeo of Arapahoe, Jona (Rodney) Barr of Wolback, Stacey (Shawn) Brickell and Shelly Sexton, both of Mount Airy, North Carolina, Mista (Dustin) White of Alliance, Wade (Heather) Kramer of Hyannis, Devin (Jody) Kramer of Gilbert, Arizona, Alex Frey of North Platte, and Erin Frey of Stapleton; 29 great-grandkids; five great-great-grandkids; and numerous nieces and nephews. Services will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 27, at the Stapleton Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Frank Scott officiating. Burial will follow at the McCain Cemetery. Adams and Swanson Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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