January 7, 1929 to September 9, 2024
Dr. Frederic Wells Baum (Ted) of Carpinteria, California passed away on September 9, 2024, at age 95. He died peacefully in his own home, surrounded by his family.
Ted was a loving and supportive father to five children and four grandchildren, an enthusiastic golfer, an aggressive doubles tennis player, a dedicated choir singer, and a general tinkerer/builder/fixer of things. As a voracious reader, writer, and literary raconteur, he was widely heralded as “The James Thurber” of his many writing groups. He loved to camp and took dozens of road trips throughout the western United States, always searching for the perfect hike, waterfall, or vista…