Name: Bakis, Dr. Eduard
Burial Date: 1970, 01/07
Age at Death: 69
Plot Location: 178 L
Notes: Husband of Linda(Liuga)
Eduard Bakis, son of Julius and Elisa Bakis, was born in Estonia May 21, 1900. In 1932 Eduard married Linda Luiga, born April 30, 1902, in Estonia, daughter of Georg Eduard and Emilie Luiga. The couple lived in Tartu, Estonia, where Eduard was a professor of psychology at the University of Tartu.
In the fall of 1944, the Russian Red Army was invading and occupying Estonia. Not wanting to live under Communist rule, and especially not wanting their children to grow up in a Communist country, Eduard and Linda Bakis with their children fled to Germany. Then Eduard secured employment at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia. The family remained there until the Red Army threatened that city. In the spring of 1945, the Bakis family fled westward to Waldkirchen, Bavaria, Germany. There the American Army drove out the German Army in a fierce battle. The family remained in Waldkirchen until the end of WWII, a few days later, and also spent the summer there.
The Bakis family spent the next four years in Displaced Person Camps in American-Occupied West Germany, mostly in Hanau. In the fall of 1949, the Bakis family was able to come to America. The first year was spent in Portland, Oregon, where Eduard worked as a janitor.
In the fall of 1950, the Bakis family came to Sterling, KS. Eduard taught psychology at Sterling College until his death in 1970. LLB
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