Services were Friday afternoon at Leiter-Reinke Funeral Home for George E. Baum, 75, Flora, who passed away at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday of last week at the Americana Nursing Home, Lafayette.  Burial was in Maple Lawn Cemetery.  The Rev. Charles Wickizer officiated.  Military graveside rites were in charge of American Legion.
  He had been in ill health for seven months.
  Born Dec. 7, 1896, at Delphi, he was the son of Harry G. and Blanche Eversol Baum.  He was married October 20, 1920, at Flora to Hilda De Vinney, who survives.
  The World War I Navy veteran had been manager of the Flora Sanitation Plant since Oct., 1954.  He was a member of the Flora Christian Church, where he was a former Deacon, Trustee, Sunday School Superintendent and sang in the choir.
  He was a charter member of the Delphi American Legion Post 75 and the Flora Lions Club.  A 1914 graduate of Delphi High School, he was graduated in 1918 from De Pauw University, where he was affiliated with the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
  Surviving with the widow are his step-mother, Mrs. Harry Baum of Delphi; one son, Bill Baum of Flora; three daughters, Mrs. Ernest L. Jones and Mrs. Glen W. Little, both of Albuquerque, N. Mex., and Mrs. Marilyn Lyon of Detroit, Mich.; one brother, Charles W. Baum of Wheeling, W. Va.; 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
 
Obituary notice taken from the Journal-Citizen, Thursday, July 6, 1972