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Anne Marie Martino Cramer: A Modest Leader

 

"There was a seven-years difference, yet I looked up to her," Patricia Nilsen said of her younger sister, Anne Marie Martino Cramer. "She was somebody we all looked up to, even my brother. She had a good job, and was a dedicated person. And I wish I could've been more like her.

"My sister was the type of person who never brought attention to herself, she never liked a fuss," she said. "Even as a kid, if she got hurt, if something went wrong, it was no big deal: she'd get up and walk away.

"She just picked up and would just keep going. That's just the way she was."

Jack Leahy, who worked with Ms. Cramer at Fiduciary Trust in the World Trade Center, where she was a tax specialist, said she was difficult to replace. "She was somebody you could confide in when things weren't going well," he said. "She'd support you in any and all decisions you had to make."

Ms. Cramer, 47, who lived with her mother in West Brighton, Staten Island, had a special love for Snoopy. Ms. Nilsen remembers giving her many Snoopy-related items. "She had them in her office," Ms. Nilsen said. "It all went with her."

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From "Profiles in Grief" of The New York Times