Beloved Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother.
Delores was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Glenn and Hazel (Penoyer) Roberts. She lived on a farm in her youth on Collins Rd. which now belongs to MSU Agricultural College. Her family learned to live off the land during the depression years. She went to Holt High School and after High School was soon married to Joe Philip Baker on December 6, 1952.
She started her family of five children and eventually bought a house and ten acres in Mason, Michigan, on Dart Rd. She always had a big garden, started an orchard and canned as much as she could for the winter. She loved her yard. She was always planting a new tree or shrub. She mowed her own lawn and pulled her own weeds, until she could no longer do it, because she loved it. While raising her family Delores worked at a variety of jobs before retiring after twenty years at the Dimondale Care Facility. She was a great cook and we all loved her holiday meals especially! She cooked and canned with lots of love. Her Coconut Cream Pie was a favorite dessert.
Delores was an animal lover all her life, and enjoyed feeding the birds in her latter years. She was an avid reader of all kinds of books, but crime novels were her favorite. Most of all she looked forward to those phone calls from her kids and grandkids where she would talk for hours about what was going on with her and the world.
Delores was preceded in death by her parents; her ex-husband, Joe; brothers, Charlie, Gene, and Edward Roberts; sister, Marie (Woodman) Keiholtz, and granddaughter, Lori Duffey.
Surviving are her children, Phil Baker (Janet Briggs) of Roscommon, Karen (Gary Smith) Vallance of Mason, and Kaye (David) Maddix of Gaylord, Mark (Linda) Baker of Grayling and Ft. Myers, FL., and Scott Baker of Lansing; 10 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; 4 great great grandchildren along with several nieces and nephews.
Delores was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Glenn and Hazel (Penoyer) Roberts. She lived on a farm in her youth on Collins Rd. which now belongs to MSU Agricultural College. Her family learned to live off the land during the depression years. She went to Holt High School and after High School was soon married to Joe Philip Baker on December 6, 1952.
She started her family of five children and eventually bought a house and ten acres in Mason, Michigan, on Dart Rd. She always had a big garden, started an orchard and canned as much as she could for the winter. She loved her yard. She was always planting a new tree or shrub. She mowed her own lawn and pulled her own weeds, until she could no longer do it, because she loved it. While raising her family Delores worked at a variety of jobs before retiring after twenty years at the Dimondale Care Facility. She was a great cook and we all loved her holiday meals especially! She cooked and canned with lots of love. Her Coconut Cream Pie was a favorite dessert.
Delores was an animal lover all her life, and enjoyed feeding the birds in her latter years. She was an avid reader of all kinds of books, but crime novels were her favorite. Most of all she looked forward to those phone calls from her kids and grandkids where she would talk for hours about what was going on with her and the world.
Delores was preceded in death by her parents; her ex-husband, Joe; brothers, Charlie, Gene, and Edward Roberts; sister, Marie (Woodman) Keiholtz, and granddaughter, Lori Duffey.
Surviving are her children, Phil Baker (Janet Briggs) of Roscommon, Karen (Gary Smith) Vallance of Mason, and Kaye (David) Maddix of Gaylord, Mark (Linda) Baker of Grayling and Ft. Myers, FL., and Scott Baker of Lansing; 10 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; 4 great great grandchildren along with several nieces and nephews.
Beloved Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother.
Delores was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Glenn and Hazel (Penoyer) Roberts. She lived on a farm in her youth on Collins Rd. which now belongs to MSU Agricultural College. Her family learned to live off the land during the depression years. She went to Holt High School and after High School was soon married to Joe Philip Baker on December 6, 1952.
She started her family of five children and eventually bought a house and ten acres in Mason, Michigan, on Dart Rd. She always had a big garden, started an orchard and canned as much as she could for the winter. She loved her yard. She was always planting a new tree or shrub. She mowed her own lawn and pulled her own weeds, until she could no longer do it, because she loved it. While raising her family Delores worked at a variety of jobs before retiring after twenty years at the Dimondale Care Facility. She was a great cook and we all loved her holiday meals especially! She cooked and canned with lots of love. Her Coconut Cream Pie was a favorite dessert.
Delores was an animal lover all her life, and enjoyed feeding the birds in her latter years. She was an avid reader of all kinds of books, but crime novels were her favorite. Most of all she looked forward to those phone calls from her kids and grandkids where she would talk for hours about what was going on with her and the world.
Delores was preceded in death by her parents; her ex-husband, Joe; brothers, Charlie, Gene, and Edward Roberts; sister, Marie (Woodman) Keiholtz, and granddaughter, Lori Duffey.
Surviving are her children, Phil Baker (Janet Briggs) of Roscommon, Karen (Gary Smith) Vallance of Mason, and Kaye (David) Maddix of Gaylord, Mark (Linda) Baker of Grayling and Ft. Myers, FL., and Scott Baker of Lansing; 10 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; 4 great great grandchildren along with several nieces and nephews.
Delores was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Glenn and Hazel (Penoyer) Roberts. She lived on a farm in her youth on Collins Rd. which now belongs to MSU Agricultural College. Her family learned to live off the land during the depression years. She went to Holt High School and after High School was soon married to Joe Philip Baker on December 6, 1952.
She started her family of five children and eventually bought a house and ten acres in Mason, Michigan, on Dart Rd. She always had a big garden, started an orchard and canned as much as she could for the winter. She loved her yard. She was always planting a new tree or shrub. She mowed her own lawn and pulled her own weeds, until she could no longer do it, because she loved it. While raising her family Delores worked at a variety of jobs before retiring after twenty years at the Dimondale Care Facility. She was a great cook and we all loved her holiday meals especially! She cooked and canned with lots of love. Her Coconut Cream Pie was a favorite dessert.
Delores was an animal lover all her life, and enjoyed feeding the birds in her latter years. She was an avid reader of all kinds of books, but crime novels were her favorite. Most of all she looked forward to those phone calls from her kids and grandkids where she would talk for hours about what was going on with her and the world.
Delores was preceded in death by her parents; her ex-husband, Joe; brothers, Charlie, Gene, and Edward Roberts; sister, Marie (Woodman) Keiholtz, and granddaughter, Lori Duffey.
Surviving are her children, Phil Baker (Janet Briggs) of Roscommon, Karen (Gary Smith) Vallance of Mason, and Kaye (David) Maddix of Gaylord, Mark (Linda) Baker of Grayling and Ft. Myers, FL., and Scott Baker of Lansing; 10 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; 4 great great grandchildren along with several nieces and nephews.
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