Martin Douglas "Doug or Sonny" Stram

Itasca Veterans Project2020-09-24T13:56:54-05:00

Name: Martin Douglas "Doug or Sonny" Stram
Location of Birth: Hibbing, Minnesota
Date of Birth: December 4, 1922
Date of Death: August 29, 1984 (61 years old)
Parents: Martin Stram and Ida (Poepke) Stram
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Other Branch: Merchant Marines
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World War II

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Doug lived in this area all his life and married Dorothea J. Connolly on September 19, 1964 at Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

Doug worked as a parts man for Corcoran Auto Supply and Nord Auto Parts, both of Grand Rapids, Minnesota and as a salesman for Charmaster Furnace Company in Grand Rapids, Minnesota before retirement in 1976.

Doug was a member of the Cohasset Over 50 Club and he was a member of St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Cohasset, Minnesota.

A sister, Harriet Frame preceded him in death as did his first wife, Marjorie.

Survivors are his wife, Dorothea; three daughters, Roberta, Sandra, and Melanie; two sons, Martin and Gordon; four sisters, Amelia Greniger, Jeanette Carlson, Isabelle Nolette, and Marion Brenden, and a brother, Irvin Stram.

Doug died at Itasca Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and is buried in Wildwood Cemetery at Cohasset, Minnesota. (Plot c48e12)

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