Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Baum, Curtiss A July 3, 1972 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Maureen Cross mcross3454@gmail.com April 16, 2020, 12:00 am Lake Odessa Wave CURTISS A BAUM PASSES AWAY Curtiss A. Baum, 23 passed away Monday night at Kent Community Hospital, Grand Rapids, following a long illness. he was admitted to Blodgett Memorial Hospital Oct. 23 and underwent brain surgery and was transferred to Kent Community on Jan. 20. He was born July 13, 1948, in Hastings, Barry County, the son of James and Bernadine (Brown) Baum and was a 1966 graduate of Lake Odessa High School. He began work at the Oldsmobile at Lansing in August of the same year, then from March, 1968, for two years was in the U.S. Army, serving in Vietnam. Curtiss married Julie Wencel of Charlotte May 31, 1968, and had attended the Congregational Church at Charlotte and was employed at Oldsmobile at the time of his illness. Surviving are his wife, Julia of Lake Odessa; a three year old daughter, Tammy; his mother, Mrs. Lloyd (Bernadine) Stalter of Lake Odessa; his father, James Baum of Drayton Plains; three brothers, Charles (Mick) VanDeVelde and Jon Stalter of Lake Odessa and Monte Baum of Charlotte. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/baum35615nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb