Vera Baum, 'Grandma' of Ohio's Grandpa's Cheesebarn, dies two days after husband Paul Baum
ASHLAND, OHIO: Vera Baum, the "Grandma" of the widely celebrated Grandpa's Cheesebarn, died on Saturday, December 10, just two days after the death of her husband, Paul "Dick" Baum, who died at the age of 93.
Less than a week ago, on Sunday, December 4, the couple celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary, the Ashland-based company announced in a Facebook post. The couple first met back in 1949, when Vera was just the checkout girl out front and Paul was a meat cutter in the back. “Her brother asked me one time to take her home because he couldn’t take her home, and that was that,” Paul told News 5 in 2015 while recalling their first meet. At the time, his “sweetie” helped at Sweetie’s Chocolates, the candy store adjoining the barn.