{"id":11432,"date":"2025-08-21T17:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midamerica.news\/wright-county-monitor\/?p=11432"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:19:52","slug":"kramer-celebrates-78-years-as-an-american-legion-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midamerica.news\/wright-county-monitor\/2025\/08\/21\/kramer-celebrates-78-years-as-an-american-legion-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Kramer Celebrates 78 Years as an American Legion Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zw-paragraph heading0\" data-linerule=\"auto\" data-line-height=\"1.2\" data-header=\"0\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;fgc&quot;:&quot;rgb(0, 0, 0)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;14.00&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"0.5in\" data-margin-bottom=\"0.0pt\" data-margin-top=\"8.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"0\" data-keep-line-info=\"false\" data-page-break-info=\"false\" data-window-control-info=\"false\" data-keep-next-info=\"false\" data-doc-id=\"1763097000000290038\" data-doc-type=\"writer\"><em>by Karen Weld, Contributing Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph heading0\" data-linerule=\"auto\" data-line-height=\"1.2\" data-header=\"0\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;fgc&quot;:&quot;rgb(0, 0, 0)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;14.00&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"0.5in\" data-margin-bottom=\"0.0pt\" data-margin-top=\"8.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"0\" data-keep-line-info=\"false\" data-page-break-info=\"false\" data-window-control-info=\"false\" data-keep-next-info=\"false\">On Monday, August 18, Clarion American Legion Auxiliary members, family, and friends surprised JoAnn Kramer to help her celebrate 78 years as an Auxiliary member. \u201cMy aunt carried me into a Legion meeting when I was two days old,\u201d Kramer shared with Contributing Writer Karen Weld.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph heading0\" data-linerule=\"auto\" data-line-height=\"1.2\" data-header=\"0\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;fgc&quot;:&quot;rgb(0, 0, 0)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;14.00&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"0.5in\" data-margin-bottom=\"0.0pt\" data-margin-top=\"8.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"0\" data-keep-line-info=\"false\" data-page-break-info=\"false\" data-window-control-info=\"false\" data-keep-next-info=\"false\">Her family purchased a youth membership for her at that time. And she has been a member since. In her early years, she was a member of the Belmond Legion Auxiliary. Her father, Harold Svendsen, served in the European Theater during World War II.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11433\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11433 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/midamerica.news\/wright-county-monitor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2025\/08\/38260785-a06a-49f6-ab67-f1f7bcc5119c-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JoAnn Kramer (left) received a citation from Iowa State Representative Mark Thompson, presented by his wife, Jacki Thompson (right), as she celebrated 78 years of continuous membership in the American Legion Auxiliary. (Photo: Karen Weld)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph heading0\" data-linerule=\"auto\" data-line-height=\"1.2\" data-header=\"0\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;fgc&quot;:&quot;rgb(0, 0, 0)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;14.00&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"0.5in\" data-margin-bottom=\"0.0pt\" data-margin-top=\"8.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"0\" data-keep-line-info=\"false\" data-page-break-info=\"false\" data-window-control-info=\"false\" data-keep-next-info=\"false\">\u201cWhen I was married,\u201d said Kramer, \u201cI joined Clarion American Legion Auxiliary Post #246.\u201d Kramer serves the Clarion group as its president, a position she has held for 48 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph heading0\" data-linerule=\"auto\" data-line-height=\"1.2\" data-header=\"0\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;fgc&quot;:&quot;rgb(0, 0, 0)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;14.00&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"0.5in\" data-margin-bottom=\"0.0pt\" data-margin-top=\"8.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"0\" data-keep-line-info=\"false\" data-page-break-info=\"false\" data-window-control-info=\"false\" data-keep-next-info=\"false\">\u201cFor a number of years in the past, our group was pretty inactive,\u201d she said. \u201cWe dropped down to 8 members and were told by the state organization to add to our membership or disband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph heading0\" data-linerule=\"auto\" data-line-height=\"1.2\" data-header=\"0\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;fgc&quot;:&quot;rgb(0, 0, 0)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;14.00&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"0.5in\" data-margin-bottom=\"0.0pt\" data-margin-top=\"8.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"0\" data-keep-line-info=\"false\" data-page-break-info=\"false\" data-window-control-info=\"false\" data-keep-next-info=\"false\">She took the admonition seriously and began to recruit numbers, adding about 5 members annually. The Clarion group now boasts 32 members, who carries on programming supporting current and past military members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph heading0\" data-linerule=\"auto\" data-line-height=\"1.2\" data-header=\"0\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;fgc&quot;:&quot;rgb(0, 0, 0)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;14.00&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"0.5in\" data-margin-bottom=\"0.0pt\" data-margin-top=\"8.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"0\" data-keep-line-info=\"false\" data-page-break-info=\"false\" data-window-control-info=\"false\" data-keep-next-info=\"false\">\u201cMay Poppy Distribution, our veterans day potluck, and a Pizza Ranch fundraising evening raising funds to support a girl at Girls\u2019 State annually are part of our programming,\u201d Kramer said. \u201cI am very happy with the way our members help with projects we tackle together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"zw-paragraph heading0\" data-linerule=\"auto\" data-line-height=\"1.2\" data-header=\"0\" data-textformat=\"{&quot;fgc&quot;:&quot;rgb(0, 0, 0)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;14.00&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;text&quot;}\" data-margin-left=\"0.0in\" data-text-indent=\"0.5in\" data-margin-bottom=\"0.0pt\" data-margin-top=\"8.0pt\" data-hd-info=\"0\" data-keep-line-info=\"false\" data-page-break-info=\"false\" data-window-control-info=\"false\" data-keep-next-info=\"false\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Weld, Contributing Writer On Monday, August 18, Clarion American Legion Auxiliary members, family, and friends surprised JoAnn Kramer to help her celebrate 78 years as an Auxiliary member. \u201cMy aunt carried me into a Legion meeting when I was two days old,\u201d Kramer shared with Contributing Writer Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18183,"featured_media":11433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4109,4091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-features","category-local-news",""],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[18183],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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