Mildred I. Kraemer Greimann

1926 - 2018

Mildred I. Kraemer Greimann obituary, 1926-2018, North Branford, CT

BORN

1926

DIED

2018

Mildred Greimann Obituary

Greimann, Mildred I. Kraemer
Mildred Isabel Kraemer Greimann, daughter of Mary Eisenschmidt & William Kraemer, died on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 in North Branford, Connecticut. Born on June 25, 1926, she was the youngest of seven children who lived with her parents and siblings on Winthrop Avenue in New Haven. She loved roller skating, eating pizza at Pepe's Pizza and fried clams at Jimmies of Savin Rock, and singing in her Walther League Lutheran Church group quartet.
An active member of Zion Lutheran Church on Davenport Ave. in New Haven, Millie met Stanley Virgil Greimann, a Yale student from Minnesota, when he showed up at church. Having fallen in love with her wit and creative energy, Stan proposed, and they were married on the Yale campus in 1952. Following Stan's graduation, the Army stationed him at a base in Virginia, to which the couple relocated, and within a few years Millie gave birth to her first child in 1955. Upon Stan's discharge from the Army they moved back to New England and settled in Guilford, Connecticut to raise their three children, Garth Hunter, Amy Elizabeth, and Eric Rendall.
Millie made "the Arts" central in her family and community, not only inviting neighborhood kids to draw with artist Hunter Mallory in her home on Lovers Lane, but also hauling kids every week to the Saturday Morning Musical School held at the home of violinist Broadus Earle. She also taught creative dramatics in the local elementary school, Calvin Leete, and co-directed the Pickle Players, a children's drama troupe, with Katrina VanTassel Wuerth with whom she wrote a book entitled Creative Dramatization, published by MacMillan. In her spare time, she enjoyed gardening, taking art classes, and regularly meeting with the members of Sew & Go - a neighborhood ladies social group that she helped establish. In her later years she volunteered to rock babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital, an experience that she cherished for the rest of her life.
A resident of Evergreen Woods in North Branford for the last ten years of her life, Millie delighted people with her personable nature, sincerity, wit and off-the-cuff remarks. Her dramatic flair, concern for others, and intense love of family was never extinguished despite her battle with dementia.
She is survived by her three children: Garth (and wife Lindsay), and Eric, both of Cambridge, MA; and Amy Carlson (and husband Reed) of Leavenworth, WA. She is also survived by her three grandchildren: Mallory McManus (and husband Jamie) of Winchester, England; Hannah Nash (and husband David) of Hingham, MA; and Reid (and wife Christine) of Denver, Colorado; and her three great-grandchildren: Zoe McManus, and Hunter and William Nash.
A memorial service will be held at Tabor Lutheran Church, 45 Tabor Drive, Branford, CT on her birthday, June 25, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. with a strawberry shortcake social to follow. Please join the family in celebrating Millie's full and rich life. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her honor to Edgerton Park Conservancy (www.edgertonparkconservancy.org) and Yale New Haven Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (https://www.givetoynhh.org/give-in-honor). To send a condolence to her family, please visit:
www.beecherandbennett.com.

Published by The New Haven Register & Shoreline Times from Feb. 11 to Feb. 16, 2018.
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Dear Garth, Amy and Eric very saddened learning of your mothers passing. I have pleasant memories of your mother, her creativeness and witty intelligence. She was definitely the coolest mom in our neighborhood when you lived on Union Street across from Benton's Market. Your mom was so interesting and always willing to instruct, demonstrate and introduce new and wonderful things, how to tune her slide guitar. She did yoga long before anyone else even knew what it was! Her methods of child rearing were what is labeled childhood education now. Even your backyard did not have a swing set but a wonderfully unique whirligig! On a snow day from school, she loaded a sled and the 3 of us into the VW bug to drive into a park in New Haven where we spendt the afternoon sledding, making snow angels and enjoying hot chocolate from huge Stanley thermos. Your lives have been blessed with a mother such as she was Garth, Amy & Eric. Deepest sympathy

Debbie Gesner Givano

June 25, 2018

What a great mama; I listen to myself and watch the things I do - she is still here!

Amy Carlson

February 14, 2018

Dear Garth, Amy & Eric,

Memories of my first years in Guilford (the 60's) are filled with such lovely thoughts of the Greimann family. Your parents were so supportive of our music program and all community arts activities. After 37 years teaching music in Guilford and now 16 years retired, memories of those first years are still most vivid and the Greimanns are most prominent. Your mom has been missed in recent years due to her illness but certainly not forgotten; her enthusiastic and caring nature was a beautiful gift to us all.

My the love of our Lord keep you all well until that ultimate time of heavenly reunion - when we shall all hear Bach as never before.

Jack Thompson

February 13, 2018

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