BAKER FUNERAL WILL BE FRIDAY
SERVICES FOR FORMER COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT TO BE AT CURE AND HENSLEY'S
Funeral services for W. O. Baker, who died Wednesday afternoon at 12:35 at his home at 353 West Harrison street, will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Cure and Hensley funeral home. The Rev. Glenn L. Tudor will conduct the service, to be followed by burial in Greenlawn cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home any time after 7 o'clock this evening.
Mr. Baker's illness had lasted more than nine months, but he did not give up his active career until May 1. Although he had last been engaged in the insurance business, for many years he was a teacher, county superintendent, and representative of one of the large publishing houses of the country.
Mr. Baker was born on a farm west of Paragon Sept. 23, 1866, the son of Andrew J. and Margaret Baker, who with two half brothers, Ephraim and Henry Goss, and a brother, Alvinso Baker, preceded him in death. He was graduated from Paragon high school and from Indiana State Teachers college at Terre Haute, and, at 19, began his teaching, a profession which he followed until 1897 when he was elected superintendent of the Morgan county schools. While in this office, he was the first to promote rural transportation for the children, and inaugurated the plan of combining all the grade commencements in the county into one, an all-day meeting at Bethany Park.
At the end of 10 years, the longest period this office has been held by any one person, he resigned to represent Charles Scribner's Sons' Publishing Co. in Wisconsin and Minnesota, making his home in Oshkosh, Wis. After eight years, he became Pacific coast manager for the same firm, with a territory covering everything west of Denver from Canada to Mexico, and including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. His headquarters were in San Francisco, although he made his home in Oakland.
After 25 years of service with Scribners, he was retired, and then engaged in general insurance business which he continued after his return to Martinsville in 1934.
He was married in 1899 to Miss Amy Lou Watson of Martinsville, who, with his only remaining brother, John Baker, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were with him at the time of his death.
Mr. Baker was a member of the First Christian church and an active member of its Church Board, and also belonged to the Lions club.
Martinsville Daily Reporter - July 26, 1945
SERVICES FOR FORMER COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT TO BE AT CURE AND HENSLEY'S
Funeral services for W. O. Baker, who died Wednesday afternoon at 12:35 at his home at 353 West Harrison street, will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Cure and Hensley funeral home. The Rev. Glenn L. Tudor will conduct the service, to be followed by burial in Greenlawn cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home any time after 7 o'clock this evening.
Mr. Baker's illness had lasted more than nine months, but he did not give up his active career until May 1. Although he had last been engaged in the insurance business, for many years he was a teacher, county superintendent, and representative of one of the large publishing houses of the country.
Mr. Baker was born on a farm west of Paragon Sept. 23, 1866, the son of Andrew J. and Margaret Baker, who with two half brothers, Ephraim and Henry Goss, and a brother, Alvinso Baker, preceded him in death. He was graduated from Paragon high school and from Indiana State Teachers college at Terre Haute, and, at 19, began his teaching, a profession which he followed until 1897 when he was elected superintendent of the Morgan county schools. While in this office, he was the first to promote rural transportation for the children, and inaugurated the plan of combining all the grade commencements in the county into one, an all-day meeting at Bethany Park.
At the end of 10 years, the longest period this office has been held by any one person, he resigned to represent Charles Scribner's Sons' Publishing Co. in Wisconsin and Minnesota, making his home in Oshkosh, Wis. After eight years, he became Pacific coast manager for the same firm, with a territory covering everything west of Denver from Canada to Mexico, and including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. His headquarters were in San Francisco, although he made his home in Oakland.
After 25 years of service with Scribners, he was retired, and then engaged in general insurance business which he continued after his return to Martinsville in 1934.
He was married in 1899 to Miss Amy Lou Watson of Martinsville, who, with his only remaining brother, John Baker, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were with him at the time of his death.
Mr. Baker was a member of the First Christian church and an active member of its Church Board, and also belonged to the Lions club.
Martinsville Daily Reporter - July 26, 1945
BAKER FUNERAL WILL BE FRIDAY
SERVICES FOR FORMER COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT TO BE AT CURE AND HENSLEY'S
Funeral services for W. O. Baker, who died Wednesday afternoon at 12:35 at his home at 353 West Harrison street, will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Cure and Hensley funeral home. The Rev. Glenn L. Tudor will conduct the service, to be followed by burial in Greenlawn cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home any time after 7 o'clock this evening.
Mr. Baker's illness had lasted more than nine months, but he did not give up his active career until May 1. Although he had last been engaged in the insurance business, for many years he was a teacher, county superintendent, and representative of one of the large publishing houses of the country.
Mr. Baker was born on a farm west of Paragon Sept. 23, 1866, the son of Andrew J. and Margaret Baker, who with two half brothers, Ephraim and Henry Goss, and a brother, Alvinso Baker, preceded him in death. He was graduated from Paragon high school and from Indiana State Teachers college at Terre Haute, and, at 19, began his teaching, a profession which he followed until 1897 when he was elected superintendent of the Morgan county schools. While in this office, he was the first to promote rural transportation for the children, and inaugurated the plan of combining all the grade commencements in the county into one, an all-day meeting at Bethany Park.
At the end of 10 years, the longest period this office has been held by any one person, he resigned to represent Charles Scribner's Sons' Publishing Co. in Wisconsin and Minnesota, making his home in Oshkosh, Wis. After eight years, he became Pacific coast manager for the same firm, with a territory covering everything west of Denver from Canada to Mexico, and including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. His headquarters were in San Francisco, although he made his home in Oakland.
After 25 years of service with Scribners, he was retired, and then engaged in general insurance business which he continued after his return to Martinsville in 1934.
He was married in 1899 to Miss Amy Lou Watson of Martinsville, who, with his only remaining brother, John Baker, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were with him at the time of his death.
Mr. Baker was a member of the First Christian church and an active member of its Church Board, and also belonged to the Lions club.
Martinsville Daily Reporter - July 26, 1945
SERVICES FOR FORMER COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT TO BE AT CURE AND HENSLEY'S
Funeral services for W. O. Baker, who died Wednesday afternoon at 12:35 at his home at 353 West Harrison street, will be held Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Cure and Hensley funeral home. The Rev. Glenn L. Tudor will conduct the service, to be followed by burial in Greenlawn cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home any time after 7 o'clock this evening.
Mr. Baker's illness had lasted more than nine months, but he did not give up his active career until May 1. Although he had last been engaged in the insurance business, for many years he was a teacher, county superintendent, and representative of one of the large publishing houses of the country.
Mr. Baker was born on a farm west of Paragon Sept. 23, 1866, the son of Andrew J. and Margaret Baker, who with two half brothers, Ephraim and Henry Goss, and a brother, Alvinso Baker, preceded him in death. He was graduated from Paragon high school and from Indiana State Teachers college at Terre Haute, and, at 19, began his teaching, a profession which he followed until 1897 when he was elected superintendent of the Morgan county schools. While in this office, he was the first to promote rural transportation for the children, and inaugurated the plan of combining all the grade commencements in the county into one, an all-day meeting at Bethany Park.
At the end of 10 years, the longest period this office has been held by any one person, he resigned to represent Charles Scribner's Sons' Publishing Co. in Wisconsin and Minnesota, making his home in Oshkosh, Wis. After eight years, he became Pacific coast manager for the same firm, with a territory covering everything west of Denver from Canada to Mexico, and including Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. His headquarters were in San Francisco, although he made his home in Oakland.
After 25 years of service with Scribners, he was retired, and then engaged in general insurance business which he continued after his return to Martinsville in 1934.
He was married in 1899 to Miss Amy Lou Watson of Martinsville, who, with his only remaining brother, John Baker, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were with him at the time of his death.
Mr. Baker was a member of the First Christian church and an active member of its Church Board, and also belonged to the Lions club.
Martinsville Daily Reporter - July 26, 1945
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