Obit: Wesley Goldberg Baum, 1962, Grant Parish La
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Colfax Chronicles Dec 30, 1962

Wesley G. Baum Of Pollock Dies 

Wesley Goldberg Baum,  77, of Pollock, died of a stroke Friday, Nov. 2 at 
9:15 a.m. at an Alexandria hospital. The Rev. Harold Brown officiated at the 
funeral services which were held Sunday from the Clear Creek Methodist Church 
at 2 p. m. Burial was in the Clear Creek Cemetery. 

Pallbearers were Larry Robertson, Marvin Baum, Jarrell Perry, Bruce Perry, 
Roy Perry and Lamar Hatfield.

Baum was born in Pollock on Oct. 25, 1885 and was a life-long resident of 
Grant Parish.  He married the former Nancy Collins, who  survives him, in 
1910 and was a retired farmer. 

Other survivors include: four sons, Harvey, Alvin and Aaron Baum, all of 
Po1lock, and Charles Baum of Winnfield; three, daughters, Mrs. George L. 
Perry, Mrs. Ethel Hatfield  and Miss Bernice Baum, all of Pollock; one 
brother, Charles Baum of Pineville; four sisters, Mrs. Alice Pettway of 
Pineville, Mrs. Altha Nugent and Mrs. Bertie Leckie, both of Pollock, and 
Mrs. Mae Lee of Eureka, Calif. ; 16 grandchildren and two great 
grandchildren.