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Joyce <I>Plummer</I> Baum

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Joyce Plummer Baum

Birth
Death
12 Sep 2007 (aged 81)
Burial
New Cumberland, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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Posted by Geib funeral home 2007.

Joyce Baum, age 81, of Dover, died early Wednesday morning, September 12, 2007, in her residence. Born at Dover, February 4, 1926, Joyce was a daughter of the late Richard Plummer and Rose Webb Plummer. Joyce was a 1944 graduate of Dover High School and throughout her life, kept in touch with classmates who met over the years for mini-reunions. She retired from the packing department of the former Miracle Adhesive at Dover. She was a longtime member of the New Cumberland United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women at New Cumberland, the Fairfield Grange, and the Pamona Grange. Joyce and her husband frequented many of the local grange square dances over the years. Bowling was also a favorite pastime. Joyce loved to crochet and knit, then graciously share her hand-made goods with family and friends, who will now cherish them as keepsakes. Mrs. Baum will be remembered for her beautiful flower gardens, as in independent person, and for dearly loving her daughters and husband. On February 12, 1946, Joyce married the late Robert A. Baum and the couple observed their sixty-first wedding anniversary prior to his June 23, 2007 death. Together, they reared a family of four daughters that includes Joyce Ann, Patricia, Roberta and Peggy Raye, 8 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren.Two sisters, Irene Mitchell of Glendale, Arizona, and Martha (Dale) Grimm of Dover, as well as two sisters-in-law, Kathleen Plummer of Colton, California and Edith Plummer of Dover, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins complete the family. In addition to her parents and husband, Joyce is preceded in death by her son Robert Daniel Baum, sisters Alice Eash, Frances Gamble and Rosie Plummer, who died in infancy, and brothers Richard, Frank, John and young Robert Plummer, who also died in infancy. Friends are invited to call Friday afternoon, from 5PM - 8PM in the Geib Funeral Center at Dover where Chaplain Rick Brinsley and the Rev. Bud Milligan will lead funeral services for Mrs. Baum Saturday morning at 10AM. Burial will follow in New Cumberland Cemetery. Family and friends are invited to a reception following the committal service in the Geib Funeral Center at Dover. Those unable to attend are invited to share memories and condolences with the family by visiting the funeral home's website. In gratitude for their exemplary care, the Baum family requests that memorial contributions be made to Hospice of Tuscarawas County, 201 West Third Street Dover, Ohio, 44622.

**Edits of names of the living were done for security reasons.
Contributor: Daisy (51212967)
Posted by Geib funeral home 2007.

Joyce Baum, age 81, of Dover, died early Wednesday morning, September 12, 2007, in her residence. Born at Dover, February 4, 1926, Joyce was a daughter of the late Richard Plummer and Rose Webb Plummer. Joyce was a 1944 graduate of Dover High School and throughout her life, kept in touch with classmates who met over the years for mini-reunions. She retired from the packing department of the former Miracle Adhesive at Dover. She was a longtime member of the New Cumberland United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women at New Cumberland, the Fairfield Grange, and the Pamona Grange. Joyce and her husband frequented many of the local grange square dances over the years. Bowling was also a favorite pastime. Joyce loved to crochet and knit, then graciously share her hand-made goods with family and friends, who will now cherish them as keepsakes. Mrs. Baum will be remembered for her beautiful flower gardens, as in independent person, and for dearly loving her daughters and husband. On February 12, 1946, Joyce married the late Robert A. Baum and the couple observed their sixty-first wedding anniversary prior to his June 23, 2007 death. Together, they reared a family of four daughters that includes Joyce Ann, Patricia, Roberta and Peggy Raye, 8 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren.Two sisters, Irene Mitchell of Glendale, Arizona, and Martha (Dale) Grimm of Dover, as well as two sisters-in-law, Kathleen Plummer of Colton, California and Edith Plummer of Dover, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins complete the family. In addition to her parents and husband, Joyce is preceded in death by her son Robert Daniel Baum, sisters Alice Eash, Frances Gamble and Rosie Plummer, who died in infancy, and brothers Richard, Frank, John and young Robert Plummer, who also died in infancy. Friends are invited to call Friday afternoon, from 5PM - 8PM in the Geib Funeral Center at Dover where Chaplain Rick Brinsley and the Rev. Bud Milligan will lead funeral services for Mrs. Baum Saturday morning at 10AM. Burial will follow in New Cumberland Cemetery. Family and friends are invited to a reception following the committal service in the Geib Funeral Center at Dover. Those unable to attend are invited to share memories and condolences with the family by visiting the funeral home's website. In gratitude for their exemplary care, the Baum family requests that memorial contributions be made to Hospice of Tuscarawas County, 201 West Third Street Dover, Ohio, 44622.

**Edits of names of the living were done for security reasons.
Contributor: Daisy (51212967)


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