Gerald Dean Berry

Born: Sat., Jun. 24, 1944
Died: Wed., Sep. 26, 2012


Memorial Service

12:00 PM Fri., Sep. 28, 2012
Location: Coon Creek Baptist Church


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Gerald Dean “Pa” Berry, a 68 year old Trenton, MO resident, passed away at 3:55 a.m., Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton.

Memorial services are scheduled for 7:00 p.m., Friday, September 28, 2012 at Coon Creek Baptist Church near Edinburg, MO.  Memorial donations are suggested by the family to St. Jude’s in lieu of flowers and may be left or mailed to Whitaker Eads Funeral Home.

Gerald Berry was born June 24, 2012 1944 in Trenton, MO to Earl and Doris Hancock Berry.  On September 16, 1964 he was united in marriage to Betty Brown in Kansas City, MO.  They lived the majority of their lives in the Trenton area.  Gerald worked at Trenton Foods for many years as a high lift operator and a line lead man as well as serving as president of the union.  He was an accomplished mechanic and loved working on machines as well as farming and hunting on his farm in Spickard, MO.

Surviving relatives include 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, MO, a sister Nadine Gardner of GA, three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Those preceding him in death include his parents, a daughter Gwendolyn Siever, three sisters Betty Russell, Mildred Sheppard and Joyce Axtel, and two brothers Robert and Dale Berry.

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Shelly Reeve
   Posted Thu September 27, 2012
Aunt Betty,

I am so sorry to hear about Gerald. I am also sorry that I will not be able to be there on Friday at the Memorial Service. Please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you. I love you.

Shelly Reeve

Gerald L. Berry Jr.
   Posted Thu October 11, 2012
I read of Gerald''''s death and realized that we were no doubt related.
My fathers name was Gerald Leo Berry, my Grandfathers name was Fred Alfred Berry, and my Great-Great Grandfathers name was Daniel Berry.
They all lived and farmed north of Galt, Mo.
I was born in Trenton on April 26, 1938, and we lived on a farm west of Bedford from 1943 until I graduated from High School and went into the Air Force in 1956.

I have been a Baptist pastor for almost 50 years, and live in Raymore,
MO along with my wife Jan. I still co-pastor with our oldest son, Gary.

Gerald may have worked at Trenton Foods with my brother in law, Roy Golden.

Sorry for you lost, but God says that death looks different from heavens view than from ours. Psalm 116.15

In Christ,

Dr. Gerald L. Berry Jr.
Southland Baptist Church
Belton, Mo

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