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Gerry Busse Dunham of Minneapolis, died in Kansas City on Monday, October 3, 2016 at the age of 86. Gerry was born on April 26th 1930 in St. Paul Minnesota. She was the daughter of George and Ruth Busse and is survived by her sister Virginia Willmus, daughter Kim Dunham Williams, son Todd Dunham, and grandchildren Lindsay Williams, Randi Ray Williams and Carson Dunham. Gerry went to Como Park Grade School as a child then graduated from Murray High School in St. Paul. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Minnesota in Psychology. Her first position after graduation was at Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) working as a Personnel Research Assistant, and she spent many years in the human resources field working for several other companies in the Twin City area. She always enjoyed restaurants and made a career change to work in that industry as a hostess or in various customer service capacities. In the summer of 2014, at the golden age of 84, Gerry finally decided to retire. She was the oldest working hostess at Ruth’s Chris in Minneapolis and she was very proud of this position. Gerry was married to Raymond Elliott Dunham on August 24, 1951. They were married for 58 years before Ray preceded her in death in March of 2009. Ray died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Gerry loved to travel and has been to many sites in the United States and Europe, though her favorite trip was to Egypt to see the pyramids. Donations in honor of Gerry may be made to the ALS foundation in the fight against ALS in lieu of flowers. http://www.alsfoundation.org/give/
