Lillian Florence Burrows Gum
Former El Dorado resident Lillian Florence Burrows Gum of Emporia died Friday evening, May 25, 2007 at the Holiday Resort where she had lived since mid-March. She was 86.
Mrs. Gum taught first through third grades at a Bible school in Gravette, Ark. She came to Butler County in the early 1940s and worked in the housekeeping department at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital for many years.
The daughter of the Rev. Earl Alfred and Alfreda Ruth Makepeace Burrows, she was born May 31, 1920, at Fairfield, Iowa. She graduated from the Centerville High School. She married Virgil Gum on March 21, 1939, at Gravette.
Mrs. Gum was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene in Emporia. She also was a member of the Newman Hospital Auxiliary and TOPS of El Dorado and Emporia.
She is survived by two sons, Darel Gum of Willow Springs, Mo., and Harold Gum of Denver, Colo.; two daughters, Patricia Gum and Rita Scribner, both of Emporia; one brother, Wesley Burrows of Kalona, Iowa; one sister, Frances Freeburg of Britt, Iowa; two granddaughters; one great-grandson; and four great-granddaughters. One son, Jerald Gum; two brothers; two sisters; one grandson; and one great-granddaughter died earlier.
The service to celebrate her life will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Church of the Nazarene. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Sunset Lawns Cemetery at El Dorado.
Memorial contributions to the Emporia Rescue Fund, the Multiple Myeloma Research or the Lyon County Historical Society may be sent in care of the Kirby-Morris Funeral Home, 224 W. Ash, El Dorado, KS 67042.
Messages to the family may be left at www.kirbymorrisfuneralhome.com.
Lillian Florence Gum is also survived by four grandsons. This information was omitted from Mrs. Gum’s obituary published May 30.