Delbert A. Cramer

June 7, 2012 - July 23, 2012

Delbert (Del) Alan Cramer, 68, passed away Monday in a local hospital. He was born in Fresno and had been a Benicia resident for the past 27 years. Although he passed after a brief illness, Del had a long history of heart disease. He was one of the first to have open heart surgery in 1953 as a nine year old and later was one of the first to have a pacemaker in 1961 as a 17 year old. Del worked for the State of California for almost 40 years before retiring in 2006. He started with the Dept. of Education as a Library File Clerk II. Next he was promoted by the Dept. of General Services to a Printing Trades Specialist in 1980, & promoted again in 1989 as an Accounting Officer with the Dept. of Conservation. In 2003 he was hired by the Dept. of Insurance's Business Management Bureau as a Supervising Business Services Officer. He and his wife Susi also owned and operated The Foggiest Idea Antiques & Collectibles Store in Benicia from 2002-2011. He is survived by his wife Susan; mother Wanda J. Goodrich; sisters Virginia A. Fox and Carol A. Gray; nieces Sarah A. Uriarte-Berry and Anna Gray-Schneider, Melinda S. Schuyler and Diana L. Wilson; and his nephew Jonathan Gray. Services will be private. In lieu of flowers or donations, the family would like you to have a milkshake in his memory.