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.