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Lumina “Minnie” <I>Robitaille</I> Baker

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Lumina “Minnie” Robitaille Baker

Birth
Quebec, Canada
Death
1952 (aged 90–91)
Burial
Midland, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada Add to Map
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W/16/1A
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Lumina Robitaille was born December 8, 1861, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, the fourth of ten children to Euphrosine St. Michel and Francois Xavier Robitaille, then raised on a farm in Lafontaine, Tiny Township, Simcoe County Ontario. She married George Irwin Baker May 23, 1887, at the Ste. Croix Parish Church in Lafontaine and they had ten children, nine of whom survived to adulthood. When her husband George drowned in Georgian Bay in 1910, she was 48 years old and a strong woman who raised nine children alone by operating a boarding house for dock workers and sailors in Port McNichol. She never remarried and lived with her daughter Annie for several years in Midland, Ontario before she died April 12, 1952, age 90. And she had her 15 minutes of fame posthumously. Her grandson Bob was a GM employee in the 1980s who submitted his grandmother's name and won the $25,000 employee contest for naming the new model. The "Lumina" automobile was introduced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors in 1989 and named after Lumina.

Contributor: Bill Glover (48312323) •

(Photo - Ancestry.ca - Ron C. JOHNSTON)
Lumina Robitaille was born December 8, 1861, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, the fourth of ten children to Euphrosine St. Michel and Francois Xavier Robitaille, then raised on a farm in Lafontaine, Tiny Township, Simcoe County Ontario. She married George Irwin Baker May 23, 1887, at the Ste. Croix Parish Church in Lafontaine and they had ten children, nine of whom survived to adulthood. When her husband George drowned in Georgian Bay in 1910, she was 48 years old and a strong woman who raised nine children alone by operating a boarding house for dock workers and sailors in Port McNichol. She never remarried and lived with her daughter Annie for several years in Midland, Ontario before she died April 12, 1952, age 90. And she had her 15 minutes of fame posthumously. Her grandson Bob was a GM employee in the 1980s who submitted his grandmother's name and won the $25,000 employee contest for naming the new model. The "Lumina" automobile was introduced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors in 1989 and named after Lumina.

Contributor: Bill Glover (48312323) •

(Photo - Ancestry.ca - Ron C. JOHNSTON)

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  • Created by: Ron JOHNSTON
  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184608654/lumina-baker: accessed ), memorial page for Lumina “Minnie” Robitaille Baker (8 Dec 1861–1952), Find a Grave Memorial ID 184608654, citing Saint Margarets Cemetery, Midland, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada; Maintained by Ron JOHNSTON (contributor 50764622).