Gerald Dean “Pa” Berry, a 68-year-old Trenton resident, died at 3:55 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 at Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton.
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Memorial services are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 at Coon Creek Baptist Church near Edinburg.
Mr. Berry was born on June 24, 1944 in Trenton, the son Earl and Doris Hancock Berry. He was married on Sept. 16, 1964 in Kansas City to Betty Brown. They lived the majority of their lives in the Trenton area. He worked at Trenton Foods for many years as a high lift operator and a line leadman as well as serving as president of the union. He was a mechanic and enjoyed working on machines as well as farming and hunting on his farm at Spickard.
He is survived by his wife, Betty of the home; a daughter, Bev Denney and her husband, Larry of Trenton; a son Jerold Rumbley of Lenexa, KS; three brothers including a twin, Ronald Berry of Noble, OK, Oscar Berry of Trenton and Virgil Berry of Chillicothe; a sister, Nadine Gardner of GA; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter, Gwendolyn Siever; three sisters, Betty Russell, Mildred Sheppard and Joyce Axtel; and two brothers, Robert and Dale Berry.
Memorial donations are suggested by the family to St. Jude’s and may be left at or mailed to Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home at Trenton.
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