Obituary of Billy Joe Baum, LaSalle Parish, La.
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Submitted by Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

Thank You to the Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal and the LaSalle Parish
Library for allowing the following to be add to the Archives.

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal
Microfilm located at the LaSalle Parish Library in Jena.

DATE: Wednesday, January 2, 2002 
Page: 3B

Headline:
Area Deaths

Billy Joe Baum

Billy Joe Baum, 68, of Columbia, died Sunday, December 30, 2001, at the North
Monroe Medical Center of Monroe.

He was a retired painter and sandblaster and a veteran of the Korean Conflict
having served in the U.S. Air Force. He was born February 17, 1933 in Pollock
to the union of Charles Richard and Lula Laura Treadway Baum.

Service were held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at the Pine Grove
aposolic Church east of Kelly with the Revs. Johnny barnhill and Heath
Barnhill officiating.

Interment followed in the New Light Cemetery of Liddieville under direction of
riser Funeral Home of Columbia.

Survivors include his wife, Jessie Ates Baum of Columbia; one step-daughter,
Cheryl Jarrette of Monticelloo; four brothers, Marvin Baum of Pollock, Charles
L. Baum of Libuse, Dewey Baum and Travis G. Baum, both of Pineville; six step-
grandchildren and eight step-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were William Baum, James Barnhil, Benny Campbell, A.M. Tomlinson
and Henry Townsend.

Honorary pallbearers were Elmer Lizenby, Jerry Douglas, and Eddie Proffer.