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Geraldine Marie (Jerry/Geri) Baker Russum, 92 of El Dorado, died on Monday, July 26 at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital. Services will be 2:00 PM, Thurs,...
Geraldine Marie (Jerry/Geri) Baker Russum, 92 of El Dorado, died on Monday, July 26 at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital. Services will be 2:00 PM, Thurs, July 29 at Carlson Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Sunset Lawns Cemetery.
Geri was born on July 22, 1918 on a farm near Andover, Kansas to Florence T. (Long) and Ben Harrison Baker. She had worked as a secretary for the City of Wichita Municipal Court. She married Emerson L. “Russ” Russum on April 2, 1942, in Newkirk, Oklahoma. They were married almost 50 years before Mr. Russum preceded her in death on October 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, Kansas; Nephews Randy Windhorst and wife Bernie, Wichita; Phillip Windhorst and wife Stacy and their children Andrea and Alex of Bennington, Kansas. A brother-in-law Marty Day also survives. Several other Russum nieces and nephews also survive.
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
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