Mary Cramer

Mary Therese Cramer (; 10 July 189323 September 1984) was an Australian charity and community worker. She was the wife of Sir John Cramer, a Liberal federal politician and minister.

Biography Mary Therese Earls was born in New South Wales in 1893, the eldest of six children of William Earls and his wife Maria (née Kirby), who had emigrated to Australia from Ireland several years earlier.

She became a teacher. On 14 January 1922, she married John Cramer in the Sydney suburb of Petersham, and they had four children: John, Erle, Bronwyn and Leonie.

When World War II broke out, she organised a Voluntary Aid Detachment for North Sydney, and also the first group of the Women's Australian National Service in Sydney and became its first commandant. She was president of the New South Wales division of the Australian Red Cross and of the Advisory Board of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in North Sydney. which was said to have left an indelible mark on the lower North Shore. Her husband outlived her by almost a decade, dying in 1994, aged 98.