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