In March 1995, Kramarov underwent what is normally routine surgery to remove a bowel tumor.
Thanks to the personal contributions of fellow former Soviet exiles of Kramarov's including artist Mikhail Chemiakin, a unique gravestone containing "casts of [Kramarov's] comedy masks, scripts, [and] make-up brushes," and his framed photograph was placed at the Jewish cemetery Hills of Eternity Memorial Park in Colma, California, in 1997 [REF].