Weston Karl Kramer

Visitation:
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:00 PM until 7:00 PM
Community Church
2351 Ryf Road
Oshkosh, WI 54904

Service:
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:00 PM
Community Church

Above is a picture of Karl and Heather's family. Weston is the older boy with the beautiful blonde hair. Amelia, Hannah, Bethany, Weston, and baby Ian. Ian now has that beautiful blonde hair and is almost a year old. I got to hold him Thursday night at the hospital so his grandma could rest her arms. They have a beautiful family!

Weston Kramer, age 3, passed away Thursday, August 6, 2009 in Dickinson Memorial Hospital in Iron Mountain, MI. On February 28, 2006 he was born in Oshkosh, the son of Karl and Heather (Palmer) Kramer. He was a member of the Community Church in Oshkosh.

His memory will be cherished by his parents: Karl and Heather Kramer; his sisters: Amelia, Hannah and Bethany; his brother: Ian all of Omro; his grandparents: Karl and Brenda Kramer of Felch, MI; Bob and Carol Palmer of Sagola, MI; his great-grandparents: Conrad and Molly Kramer of Sagola, MI and Don and Janet Lantz of Felch, MI; and his aunts, uncles and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m., Tuesday, August 11, 2009 in the Community Church, 2351 Ryf Road, Oshkosh, with Rev. Alan Cleveland officiating. Private committal services will be held. Friends may greet the family from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m., Tuesday in the church. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established in Weston's name to the Commmunity Church.

Fiss & Bills Funeral Home
865 S. Westhaven Dr.
920-235-1170

Thursday night, August 6, around 6pm I received a phone call to come to the hospital. It was my best friend from high school's dad. He said that Elesha and him had been in a terrible accident and that Elesha wanted me to be there. He wouldn't tell me what was going on until I got there. (This was difficult given that she had been in a terrible car accident with her father just a few years ago that left her in a wheel chair for two years! I wasn't sure what to think... I was hoping it was a joke!)

Elesha (Palmer) Freeman was home from Mount Pleasant, MI to help watch 4 of the 5 children belonging to her sister Heather and Karl Kramer at their parents' home in Sagola. Elesha brought her own three children to stay with the grandparents while her sister and her husband went on a youth group camping trip to the Porcupine Mountains.

When I got to the hospital I found out that Elesha's 3 year old nephew, Weston, had fallen from a slowly moving trailer hooked to a six wheeler and had died in-route to the hospital. They were coming down an ORV trail moving at a snail's pace, but with quite a few bumps. Elesha's father and his friend were up front on the six wheeler, and all the kids, with Elesha and the friend's wife, were sitting on the trailer in the back. Weston was sitting down and then all of a sudden he was off of the trailer. Because all the kids were tired they were laying down and didn't really see what had happened. All that Elesha knows is that he fell off the side where there was a slight railing. He hit his head really bad. (The story gets worse, but I'm not going to expand on details) Elesha and Bob rushed him as far as they could get to a phone to call 911 (they were out by Washburn Falls in Florence County with no cell reception and no land-line) and then he stopped breathing. Bob, the grandfather, did CPR until the ambulance came. He was gone by the time they got there. There was nothing anyone could have done with the injuries he had. It is so terribly sad!

I was in the hospital all night. I was glad to be there with my friends. I wouldn't want them to go through this alone. I have never experienced anything as tragic as this situation. Elesha and I have been best friends since 1rst grade. I was even in her wedding. I had just seen Weston on Tuesday and Wednesday night. He is a beautiful little boy! This was just a weird situation. Like a bad nightmare. It was like Jesus just took him away!
Please keep the family in your prayers during this difficult time. Thank you so much!

The funeral was like none other. Not a dry eye in the church that seats about 1,500. We had a time of worship and reflection on Weston's life. I miss Elesha already!