Remembering the victims of COVID-19: Ruth Cramer

By News staff

CityNews is remembering the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic through memories shared by their loved ones.

Ruth Cramer didn’t have delicate hands. She had those worker-type hands, coarse and weathered. She was proud of them though.

She used them to build and create long lasting works of art that sprinkle her family’s homes and her Parry Sound cottage.

Ruth’s hands crafted ceramic art. With her tools, scrapers, sponges, and paint brushes, she created life-like figurines, colourful plates and even garden gnomes.

Very proud of her art, she would display the items around her home for all to see and gift other pieces to dear friends and family.

She used her hands to sew and crochet dozens of throws that are used to warm visitors to her cottage on cool spring and summer nights. She even used her hands to teach the men in her life how to properly and safely chop down and clear trees when they built the cottage back in 1967.

She rolled up her sleeves and put those hands to work again when it was time to build the cottage’s dock and deck.

Life for Ruth was all about building and creating memories to last many lifetimes.

Cramer was 90 years old when she passed away from COVID-19.

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