Doris Kramer, 102, died May 20, 2026, in her St. Jacobs, Ont., home. Born in Richards, Iowa, to Ira J. and Matilda (Weideman) Miller on July 10, 1923, she moved to Pennsylvania as a teenager, where she met Raymond L. Kramer, whom she married in 1944. In 1958 the couple and their seven children moved to Canada, where Raymond became the pastor at St. Jacobs Mennonite Church.

After Raymond’s death in 1962, Doris graduated from Conestoga College and was hired as a social worker with Family and Children’s Services. She was active at church, gratefully receiving the support of her community while giving back as a worship leader, mentor, sewing circle member and church council member. She was not afraid to ask difficult questions or to challenge narrow thinking, and she actively made friends with people of all ages and backgrounds. Her all-encompassing love is a cherished legacy.

Doris served as the secretary of the Women’s Service Auxiliary and was the first woman on the Mennonite Board of Missions. She regularly hosted international visitors, spoke at churches, visited the women’s prison and gave generously of her time and money. In the last decade of her life, she sewed 4,753 bags for Mennonite Central Committee kits.

Doris was preceded in death by infant son Phillip James in 1947; husband Raymond; her parents; sisters, brothers and their spouses, Mariette Stamper (Carl), Paul (Laverne), Lois Schlabach (David), John (Ann), (Helen) and Charles (Mai Britt).

She is survived by her brother, James Miller; children Jonathan (Janet MacDonald), Paul (Nancy Needham), Phyllis, Marcus (Catherine Robertson), Daniel (Laura Gray), Stephanie and Mary Ette (Peter Yoder); 20 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.