Ethel Baker
Passed Away
January 21st
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Leaves Twelve Children to
Mourn Her Loss; Funeral
Services Monday
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Laura Ethel Turner-Baker was born in Stuart, Iowa April 20, 1884, and died in Edgar, Nebraska, January 21, 1928, at the age of 43 years, 9 months and one day.
From Stuart, Iowa, she, with her parents, later moved to Cambridge, Nebraska. It was here that she graduated from high school. She immediately continued her education, spending one year at Doane College, Crete, Nebraska, and three years at Bellevue College, Bellevue, Nebraska. It was at the later that she was granted her A. B. degree in 1905.
She was married to Arthur J. L. Baker of Cook, Nebraska, on June 28, 1905. They moved to Clay County in 1919 and lived on a farm three miles east and one-half miles north of Edgar. Mr Baker passed away three years ago leaving his wife and twelve children.
She is survived by the children, Leslie J., Gwendolyn Pauline, Margaret Hazel, Harlan Turner, Edith Winifred, Arthur Rector, George Jackson, Clarence Henry, Ethel Lurilla, Doris Maxine and Dorothy Eileen (twins) and Ralph Eugene, ranging in ages from three to twenty-one years; a sister, Mrs Charles Drake, Portland, Oregon, and other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her loss.
Her parents were killed east of Edgar some 24 years ago while crossing the railroad tracks.
At an early age Mrs. Baker joined the Congregational church. While a resident of Edgar she attended the Christian Church.
The death of Mrs. Baker is one of the saddest we have had to chronicle for some time in that it has taken the mother from this home leaving twelve children ranging in ages from three to twenty-one, orphans. Mrs Baker was artistically inclined and was a good, kind mother.
Such a sorrowful tragedy as this is hardly comprehensible by the human mind, and we sometimes wonder why the hand of destiny is so often arranged to make such incidents in life possible. The guiding hand of the mother is gone and the binding ties of the home are forever gone. Through the sadness of it all we can but pray to God Almighty that the family ties remaining may not be severed and that the brothers and sisters may still continue as such. Mrs. Campbell will take the children to Lincoln with her where they will make their home.
Funeral services were held from the home Monday afternoon at 2:30 conducted by Ralph Tietsort of Lincoln, Nebraska. The choir of the church rendered several numbers. Interment was made in the Edgar Cemetery.
Contributor: Jan Plambeck (46975511) • [email protected]
Ethel Baker
Passed Away
January 21st
---
Leaves Twelve Children to
Mourn Her Loss; Funeral
Services Monday
--
Laura Ethel Turner-Baker was born in Stuart, Iowa April 20, 1884, and died in Edgar, Nebraska, January 21, 1928, at the age of 43 years, 9 months and one day.
From Stuart, Iowa, she, with her parents, later moved to Cambridge, Nebraska. It was here that she graduated from high school. She immediately continued her education, spending one year at Doane College, Crete, Nebraska, and three years at Bellevue College, Bellevue, Nebraska. It was at the later that she was granted her A. B. degree in 1905.
She was married to Arthur J. L. Baker of Cook, Nebraska, on June 28, 1905. They moved to Clay County in 1919 and lived on a farm three miles east and one-half miles north of Edgar. Mr Baker passed away three years ago leaving his wife and twelve children.
She is survived by the children, Leslie J., Gwendolyn Pauline, Margaret Hazel, Harlan Turner, Edith Winifred, Arthur Rector, George Jackson, Clarence Henry, Ethel Lurilla, Doris Maxine and Dorothy Eileen (twins) and Ralph Eugene, ranging in ages from three to twenty-one years; a sister, Mrs Charles Drake, Portland, Oregon, and other relatives and a host of friends to mourn her loss.
Her parents were killed east of Edgar some 24 years ago while crossing the railroad tracks.
At an early age Mrs. Baker joined the Congregational church. While a resident of Edgar she attended the Christian Church.
The death of Mrs. Baker is one of the saddest we have had to chronicle for some time in that it has taken the mother from this home leaving twelve children ranging in ages from three to twenty-one, orphans. Mrs Baker was artistically inclined and was a good, kind mother.
Such a sorrowful tragedy as this is hardly comprehensible by the human mind, and we sometimes wonder why the hand of destiny is so often arranged to make such incidents in life possible. The guiding hand of the mother is gone and the binding ties of the home are forever gone. Through the sadness of it all we can but pray to God Almighty that the family ties remaining may not be severed and that the brothers and sisters may still continue as such. Mrs. Campbell will take the children to Lincoln with her where they will make their home.
Funeral services were held from the home Monday afternoon at 2:30 conducted by Ralph Tietsort of Lincoln, Nebraska. The choir of the church rendered several numbers. Interment was made in the Edgar Cemetery.
Contributor: Jan Plambeck (46975511) • [email protected]
Inscription
Children of Arthur J. & L. Ethel Baker
Leslie J., Gwendolyn P., Margaret H., Harlan T., Edith W., Arthur R., George J., Clarence H., Ethel L., Doris M., Dorothy E., Ralph E.
Family Members
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Leslie J Baker
1906–1985
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Gwendolyn Pauline Baker Schroeder
1907–1999
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Margaret Hazel Baker Cramer
1909–2002
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Sgt Arthur Rector Baker
1914–1944
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George Jackson Baker
1915–1944
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Clarence Henry "Buddy" Baker
1918–1941
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Clarence "Buddy" Baker Samuelson
1918–1941
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Ethel Lourilla Baker
1919–1932
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Doris Maxine Baker Jackson Beck
1922–2009
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