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Geraldine Marie (Jerry/Geri) Baker Russum, 92, of El Dorado, died on Monday, July 26, 2010 at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Carlson Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Sunset Lawns Cemetery.
Geri was born on July 22, 1918 on a farm near Andover, to Florence T. (Long) and Ben Harrison Baker. She had worked as a secretary for the City of Wichita Municipal Court.
She was married to Emerson L. “Russ” Russum on April 2, 1942, in Newkirk, Okla. They were married almost 50 years before Mr. Russum preceded her in death on Oct. 22, 1991.
She had made her home in the Wichita and El Dorado area all of her life. She was a member of First Christian Church; Victory Sunday School Class; a life member of VFW Auxiliary; a former member of Knife and Fork Club; Community Concert; Life Enrichment; and El Dorado Senior Center, which are all in El Dorado, and the Daughters of the Nile in Wichita.
Those she leaves are: a sister, Maxine Baker Windhorst and her husband LeRoy of Wells, Kan.; nephews, Randy Windhorst and wife Bernie of Wichita and Phillip Windhorst and wife Stacy and their children Andrea and Alex of Bennington, Kan.; a brother-in-law, Marty Day; and several other Russum nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her parents and a sister-in-law, Betty Day.
Memorials to her memory for the First Christian Church Youth Department may be left with Carlson Funeral Home, where friends may call.
Geraldine Marie (Jerry/Geri) Baker Russum, 92, of El Dorado, died on Monday, July 26, 2010 at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Carlson Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Sunset Lawns Cemetery.
Geri was born on July 22, 1918 on a farm near Andover, to Florence T. (Long) and Ben Harrison Baker. She had worked as a secretary for the City of Wichita Municipal Court.
She was married to Emerson L. “Russ” Russum on April 2, 1942, in Newkirk, Okla. They were married almost 50 years before Mr. Russum preceded her in death on Oct. 22, 1991.
She had made her home in the Wichita and El Dorado area all of her life. She was a member of First Christian Church; Victory Sunday School Class; a life member of VFW Auxiliary; a former member of Knife and Fork Club; Community Concert; Life Enrichment; and El Dorado Senior Center, which are all in El Dorado, and the Daughters of the Nile in Wichita.
Those she leaves are: a sister, Maxine Baker Windhorst and her husband LeRoy of Wells, Kan.; nephews, Randy Windhorst and wife Bernie of Wichita and Phillip Windhorst and wife Stacy and their children Andrea and Alex of Bennington, Kan.; a brother-in-law, Marty Day; and several other Russum nieces and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by her parents and a sister-in-law, Betty Day.
Memorials to her memory for the First Christian Church Youth Department may be left with Carlson Funeral Home, where friends may call.
