Brattleboro Reformer; Brattleboro VT; December 2, 2000

    GERTRUDE ANN BAUER
BRATTLEBORO - Gertrude "Trudy" Ann Bauer, 92, died Wednesday, Nov 29, 2000, 
after years as a cancer patient, the last of those years spent with loving 
care at Eden Park in Brattleboro.
    She was born on June 22, 1998, in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. When she 
was 8 years old, her mother, Valetta (Smith) Lake returned to Canada with two 
of Ms. Bauer's six siblings, leaving Ms Bauer and four siblings with their 
father, Arthur Lake. He plaed them in the children's home in Yaphank, Long 
Island, and later Ms Bauer became a foster child of the Rushmeyers.
    In 1937, she married Paul Bauer, a World War I veteran, who died May 26, 
1942. She lived many years in an orderly, simply furnished, three-room 
apartment in Richmond Hill, N.Y.,supporting herself on a modest income from 
laboring as a bookkeeper.
    She is survived by her brother, George Lake, a niece and a nephew, seven 
grandnieces; and 11 great-grandnieces andnephews, who she loved to watch, 
particularly at play, as long as they didn't move "too much". Order and 
moderation were her guideposts.
    She enjoyed reading and simple poetry. She had a gentle and lively sense 
of humor.
    A memorial gathering will be held in the spring to include scattering Ms 
Bauer's ashes.