Warren Kenneth Baum, Sr.

Warren Kenneth Baum, Sr. passed away after a long battle with cancer, Tuesday, August 22, 2017, at the Good Samaritan Center in Goodland, Kansas.  Warren, who is known as Ken to his family and friends, was born November 27, 1933, at home, to Gilbert and Caroline (Holder) Baum in Pequannock, New Jersey. Ken married Carol Martha (Rogers) Baum on May 21, 1960, in Pompton Plains, NJ.

Ken attended elementary school at Pequannock Grade School, then graduated from Butler High School, Butler, NJ in 1952.  He worked a variety of jobs, like for a peddler who delivered vegetables and on a vegetable farm in Pequannock.  He worked for his older brother Jack, at John J. Baum’s excavating business, in Wayne, NJ.  In 1952, he joined the U.S. Navy he schooled as an engineman in San Diego, CA.  He served on two Navy Tugboats, #YTM 131 and #YTB 347, as well as on LSM #398.  After he was discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1956, he worked at the Ford Plant in Mahwah, NJ.  He worked on the first Edsel car to come off the production line.  Following working for Ford, Ken went to work for Garden State Farms in Wyckoff, NJ, doing maintenance until 1977, when he decided to bring his family to Goodland, KS to buy and run the Goodland KOA Kampground until 1990.  While living in Goodland, he also worked at the Sugar Beet Factory, Goodland Post Office, for the county, the United Methodist Church in Goodland, drove the city bus, and finally for the city parks department.

Throughout the years Ken was a member of the of the Goodland United Methodist Church, attended Cross Fire Reflections Sunday School; member of Silentia Masonic Lodge #168 in Butler, NJ; member of Scottish Rite in Paterson, NJ; Goodland Masonic Lodge #321, Worshipful Master of the Lodge 1997-1998, Secretary of the Lodge 1999-2012, Treasurer of the Lodge 2013-2016; Member of the American Legion Goodland Post #117, Commander of the Post 2001-2004; member of the USS LSM – LSMR Association.

Ken is survived by his wife, Carol; his sons, Roy Daniel (Annette Yungeberg) of Topeka, KS and Warren Kenneth Jr. (Michele Highland) of Commerce City, CO; grandsons Justin Levi (Andrea Kaberline) Gilstrap and Daniel Jonathan Baum of Topeka; granddaughter Kelly Danae (Andrew) Purviance of Hays, KS; great granddaughter Hope Anne Gilstrap and step great granddaughter Macie Faye Chretien (Purviance);  brother Joseph Norman Baum, Sr. of Pompton Plains, NJ; sister Carolyn Edna Rick of Pittstown, NJ; brother-in-law:  Edward W. Rogers and wife Catherine of Pequannock, NJ, brother - in- law Franklin Annaheim of Florida, sister-in-law Ruth Landis and husband Robert; 12 nieces, 8 nephews, and many great nieces and nephews.

Preceding him in death are his parents, his step-father Ralph Frint, brothers Gilbert Benjamin Baum, Sr.; John James Baum, Sr.; Raymond Richard Baum; Eugene Carroll Baum, Sr.; 2 nieces and 6 nephews.

Visitation will be Friday, August 25, 2017, with family present 5 to 7 p.m. MDT, at Bateman Funeral Home, 211 East 11th Street in Goodland.  Funeral services will be Saturday, August 26, 2017, at 10:30 a.m. MDT at the Goodland United Methodist Church with Pastors Gordon Pettibone and Zach Anderson officiating.  Interment will be later at the Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery in Wakeeney, KS.  In lieu of flowers, memorials may be designated to the Northwest Kansas Foundation for Hope, P.O. Box 187, Colby, KS 67701.  Online condolences may be left at www.batemanfuneral.com