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Robert A. Baker

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Robert A. Baker

Birth
Blue Ridge, Shelby County, Indiana, USA
Death
4 May 1952 (aged 63)
Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Blue Ridge, Shelby County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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In failing health since January and in a critical condition since suffering a paralytic stroke last Wednesday, Robert A. Baker, 63, Waldron resident, died at the W. S. Major Hospital Sunday morning at 3:15.

Funeral Rites will be held at the Carmony Funeral Home in St. Paul Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. with Rev. R. O. McRae officiating. Burial will be in the Blue Ridge cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Employed by the Chambers Corporation as a painter, Mr. Baker had lived in Waldron for 35 years. He was born at Blue Ridge on August 29, 1888, the son of Joseph and Mollie (Montgomery) Baker. He married Laura Meltzer on December 13, 1908, and she survives with two children, Stanley Baker of Waldron and Mrs. Lorene Dwiggins of Flat Rock R. R.

Mr. Baker was one of a family of nine children and seven brothers and sisters survive. They are Earl, Virgil and Dolph Baker and Mrs. Lavanchie Lowe of Blue Ridge; Clarence Baker of Indianapolis; Russell of Anderson and Mrs. Grace DeBaun of near this city. There are five grandchildren.

Mr. Baker was a member of the Waldron Methodist Church.

Obit is from the Shelbyville News - Monday, 5/5/1952
In failing health since January and in a critical condition since suffering a paralytic stroke last Wednesday, Robert A. Baker, 63, Waldron resident, died at the W. S. Major Hospital Sunday morning at 3:15.

Funeral Rites will be held at the Carmony Funeral Home in St. Paul Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. with Rev. R. O. McRae officiating. Burial will be in the Blue Ridge cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.

Employed by the Chambers Corporation as a painter, Mr. Baker had lived in Waldron for 35 years. He was born at Blue Ridge on August 29, 1888, the son of Joseph and Mollie (Montgomery) Baker. He married Laura Meltzer on December 13, 1908, and she survives with two children, Stanley Baker of Waldron and Mrs. Lorene Dwiggins of Flat Rock R. R.

Mr. Baker was one of a family of nine children and seven brothers and sisters survive. They are Earl, Virgil and Dolph Baker and Mrs. Lavanchie Lowe of Blue Ridge; Clarence Baker of Indianapolis; Russell of Anderson and Mrs. Grace DeBaun of near this city. There are five grandchildren.

Mr. Baker was a member of the Waldron Methodist Church.

Obit is from the Shelbyville News - Monday, 5/5/1952


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43065847/robert_a-baker: accessed ), memorial page for Robert A. Baker (29 Aug 1888–4 May 1952), Find a Grave Memorial ID 43065847, citing Blue Ridge Cemetery, Blue Ridge, Shelby County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by jwright (contributor 46879761).