Augusta “Gussie” Marie (Thiessen) Baum

Augusta “Gussie” Marie (Thiessen) Baum, 81, passed away peacefully with her children by her bedside at the Kansas City Hospice House on October 28, 2009 in Kansas City  Missouri. 

 

She was born in Buhler, Kansas on December 3, 1927.  While she worked as a pediatric nurse at Children’s Mercy Hospital she attended Kansas City Bible College.  She graduated in 1952 and went to the Philippines as a pediatric nurse with the International Christian Leprosy Mission.  She was married in 1955 and joined her husband, Wilhelm, “Bill”, serving in Japan and Germany until 1980 with SEND International. 

 

She was preceded in death by her husband.  She is survived by a daughter, Mary Esther and her husband, Mark, of Japan; a son, Timothy, and his wife, Denise, of Pennsylvania; 6 grandchildren; a brother she adored, Abe Thiessen, of Inman, Kansas; and a sister-in-law, Charlotte Frank, of Overland Park, Kansas. 

 

Graveside and Memorial Service

 

A graveside service will be at 11 a.m., Sunday, November 1, 2009 at Shawnee Cemetery.  A memorial service will be held at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, November 1, 2009 at Woods Chapel Bible Fellowship, 701 N.W. Woods Chapel Road, Blue Springs, Missouri. 

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