Rash's Surname Index
Notes for James Henry BALDERSTON
A memorial service will be held next Saturday for Margareta H. Kramer of Palo Alto and her husband, James H. Balderston, who were killed in Ecuador on a plantation they were developing near Quito.
Kramer's father, Raymond, said he was told by State Department officials yesterday that the couple's bodies were found on the 230-acre plantation near the settlement of Coca, on the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains. Balderston had a bullet wound in his head and Kramer's skull had been crushed.
The father said he was told local officials have several suspects in custody but do not know the motive for the killings. The couple were buried yesterday in Quito after a Quaker ceremony.
Kramer and Balderston met while attending the University of California at Davis and were married in July 1977. They went to Brazil, where he taught in a university for three years, and then to Ecuador, where they bought the plantation. They planned to clear the land for palm oil production.
Kramer, 34, was raised in Palo Alto and took her undergraduate degree at UC Davis and a master's in ornithology at Indiana University. Balderston, 44, was from Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University and a doctorate in vegetable crops at UC Davis.
In addition to her father, Kramer is survived by her stepmother, Peggy, of Palo Alto; two sisters, Susan Caulk of Burbank and Jacqueline Schroeder of Santa Clara; a brother, Paul, of Berkeley; a stepbrother, Tom Greeley of Los Altos, and a grandmother, Lucile Kramer of West Bend, Iowa.
Balderston is survived by five sisters, Betsy of Philadelphia, Caroline Parry of Toronto, Laura Laky of Ambler, Pa., Anne Peery of Westfield, Ind., and Susan Blanchford of Monterey, Tenn.
The memorial service will be at 2 p.m. at the Friends Meeting of Palo Alto, 957 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto. Contributions are suggested to the American Friends Service Committee, in care of the above address.
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