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Leroy Baker

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Leroy Baker

Birth
Death
15 Oct 1970 (aged 78)
Burial
Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 12, Row 6
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Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Friday, October 16, 1970

Leroy Baker
Leroy BAKER, 78, R.R. 1, Macy, died at 7:20 p.m. Thursday in the Canterbury nursing home. He had been a patient since Saturday and seriously ill six months.
Born Aug. 10, 1892, near Macy, he was the son of Philip and Daisy WAGONER BAKER. His marriage was June 23, 1947, in LaPorte, to Alice M. BECKER, who survives. A retired farmer, he had spent his entire life in the Macy community. He was a former employee of the Studebaker corportion and a member of the Lincoln Masonic Order at Macy, the Macy Christian church and Rochester American Legion Post. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the World War I Barracks.
Surviving with his wife are one brother, Ray BAKER, Macy; a sister, Mrs. V. D. (Retha) MIKESELL, South Bend; three nephews, Oris BAKER, Fulton; Jerry BAKER, Rochester; and Philip BAKER, Phoenix, Ariz.; two nieces, Mrs. Neil STANTON, South Bend, and Mrs. Robert FRAZIER, Denver, Colo. One brother preceded in death.
Final rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. The Rev. Chester WALTHER will officiate. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Saturday. The family has requested that memorials other than flowers be made to the Cancer fund.

SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1970
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Friday, October 16, 1970

Leroy Baker
Leroy BAKER, 78, R.R. 1, Macy, died at 7:20 p.m. Thursday in the Canterbury nursing home. He had been a patient since Saturday and seriously ill six months.
Born Aug. 10, 1892, near Macy, he was the son of Philip and Daisy WAGONER BAKER. His marriage was June 23, 1947, in LaPorte, to Alice M. BECKER, who survives. A retired farmer, he had spent his entire life in the Macy community. He was a former employee of the Studebaker corportion and a member of the Lincoln Masonic Order at Macy, the Macy Christian church and Rochester American Legion Post. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the World War I Barracks.
Surviving with his wife are one brother, Ray BAKER, Macy; a sister, Mrs. V. D. (Retha) MIKESELL, South Bend; three nephews, Oris BAKER, Fulton; Jerry BAKER, Rochester; and Philip BAKER, Phoenix, Ariz.; two nieces, Mrs. Neil STANTON, South Bend, and Mrs. Robert FRAZIER, Denver, Colo. One brother preceded in death.
Final rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. The Rev. Chester WALTHER will officiate. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Saturday. The family has requested that memorials other than flowers be made to the Cancer fund.

SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1970
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh


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  • Created by: April Gross
  • Added: May 18, 2009
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37240271/leroy-baker: accessed ), memorial page for Leroy Baker (10 Aug 1892–15 Oct 1970), Find a Grave Memorial ID 37240271, citing Rochester IOOF Cemetery, Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by April Gross (contributor 47041501).