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SGT Herman Burton Baker

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SGT Herman Burton Baker

Birth
Kingsbury County, South Dakota, USA
Death
18 Feb 1973 (aged 79)
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
Plot
Square 61, Lot 3 E 1/2, Grave 12
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South Dakota, Birth Index, 1856-1915, a collection found on Ancestry.com: Herman Burton Baker, DOB 16 Feb 1894 in Kingsbury, South Dakota, to Edwain (how it is spelled in the collection) Franklin Baker and Bertha Johnson.

Found in The State 19 February 1973: Herman Burton Baker, 79, of 2825 Kershaw St., retired manager of Bay Way Laundry, Gainesville, Ga., died Sunday in Rikard Nursing Home. Born in South Dakota, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Frank Baker. He was a veteran of World War I and II. Surviving is a brother, E. Frank Baker of Columbia. Services will be at 4 p.m. today in Dunbar Funeral Home, Gervais Street chapel, conduced by the Rev. Dr. Enoch C. Brown. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be E. H. Craig, Gilbert J. Bristow, F. P. Wunder, D. H. Long, Bobby J. Long and Bill Pierce.

He is buried in the Samuel Fair Smith/Thurgood Thornton family plot. I believe his relationship with this family is that he is the brother of Louise Smith Baker's husband, Edwin Frank Baker.
South Dakota, Birth Index, 1856-1915, a collection found on Ancestry.com: Herman Burton Baker, DOB 16 Feb 1894 in Kingsbury, South Dakota, to Edwain (how it is spelled in the collection) Franklin Baker and Bertha Johnson.

Found in The State 19 February 1973: Herman Burton Baker, 79, of 2825 Kershaw St., retired manager of Bay Way Laundry, Gainesville, Ga., died Sunday in Rikard Nursing Home. Born in South Dakota, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Frank Baker. He was a veteran of World War I and II. Surviving is a brother, E. Frank Baker of Columbia. Services will be at 4 p.m. today in Dunbar Funeral Home, Gervais Street chapel, conduced by the Rev. Dr. Enoch C. Brown. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be E. H. Craig, Gilbert J. Bristow, F. P. Wunder, D. H. Long, Bobby J. Long and Bill Pierce.

He is buried in the Samuel Fair Smith/Thurgood Thornton family plot. I believe his relationship with this family is that he is the brother of Louise Smith Baker's husband, Edwin Frank Baker.

Gravesite Details

Transcribed from the book, Interment Records of Elmwood Cemetery, Columbia, SC (three volumes)



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  • Created by: rdsxfan
  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172849924/herman_burton-baker: accessed ), memorial page for SGT Herman Burton Baker (16 Feb 1894–18 Feb 1973), Find a Grave Memorial ID 172849924, citing Elmwood Memorial Gardens, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA; Maintained by rdsxfan (contributor 47525613).