Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Cocklin Funeral Home here for Mrs. Elizabeth S. Baker who died last Thursday morning at 7 o'clock. Rev. G. N. Young of Dillsburg Lutheran Church officiated and interment was in Franklin Church Cemetery. Mrs. Baker, 78, had been in ill health about a year. She was the widow of William H. Baker, who died 15 years ago.
Surviving are: children, Elvin, Mt. Joy; Roy and Percy, Florin; and Boyd, Carlisle; sisters, Mrs. Catherine Grossman, and Mrs. M. A. Hinkle, Dillsburg; and Mrs. Geo. Kiester, New Cumberland; brother, John W. Burtner. She also leaves 21 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
~obituary posted 2MAY1940 in The Weekly Bulletin, Vol.24, No. LXIV~
* After the death of her husband, William Henry, and her daughter, Orey, a seriously ill Lizzie Baker rallied and survived to raise her granddaughter (Orey's only child), Winifred Elizabeth Wagner, who was 9 years old at the time.
Surviving are: children, Elvin, Mt. Joy; Roy and Percy, Florin; and Boyd, Carlisle; sisters, Mrs. Catherine Grossman, and Mrs. M. A. Hinkle, Dillsburg; and Mrs. Geo. Kiester, New Cumberland; brother, John W. Burtner. She also leaves 21 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
~obituary posted 2MAY1940 in The Weekly Bulletin, Vol.24, No. LXIV~
* After the death of her husband, William Henry, and her daughter, Orey, a seriously ill Lizzie Baker rallied and survived to raise her granddaughter (Orey's only child), Winifred Elizabeth Wagner, who was 9 years old at the time.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Cocklin Funeral Home here for Mrs. Elizabeth S. Baker who died last Thursday morning at 7 o'clock. Rev. G. N. Young of Dillsburg Lutheran Church officiated and interment was in Franklin Church Cemetery. Mrs. Baker, 78, had been in ill health about a year. She was the widow of William H. Baker, who died 15 years ago.
Surviving are: children, Elvin, Mt. Joy; Roy and Percy, Florin; and Boyd, Carlisle; sisters, Mrs. Catherine Grossman, and Mrs. M. A. Hinkle, Dillsburg; and Mrs. Geo. Kiester, New Cumberland; brother, John W. Burtner. She also leaves 21 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
~obituary posted 2MAY1940 in The Weekly Bulletin, Vol.24, No. LXIV~
* After the death of her husband, William Henry, and her daughter, Orey, a seriously ill Lizzie Baker rallied and survived to raise her granddaughter (Orey's only child), Winifred Elizabeth Wagner, who was 9 years old at the time.
Surviving are: children, Elvin, Mt. Joy; Roy and Percy, Florin; and Boyd, Carlisle; sisters, Mrs. Catherine Grossman, and Mrs. M. A. Hinkle, Dillsburg; and Mrs. Geo. Kiester, New Cumberland; brother, John W. Burtner. She also leaves 21 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
~obituary posted 2MAY1940 in The Weekly Bulletin, Vol.24, No. LXIV~
* After the death of her husband, William Henry, and her daughter, Orey, a seriously ill Lizzie Baker rallied and survived to raise her granddaughter (Orey's only child), Winifred Elizabeth Wagner, who was 9 years old at the time.
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Wife of William Henry Baker. Daughter of Christian Burtner and Elizabeth Burtner nee Kapp.
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