Thomas S. Baker Dies Sunday At Anderson Hospital
Funeral services Will Be Conducted Here On Wednesday
Death came to a former Johnson county resident and well known figure in state athletics, when Thomas Sherman Baker, died in the St. John's Hospital at Anderson, Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Baker suffered a heart attack at the Central Junior High School where he was principal, and was taken to the hospital. He appeared to be recovering and then suffered another seizure shortly after noon Sunday.
The body was taken to the Baker Brothers funeral home in Anderson and will be brought to the Flinn and Maguire funeral home Tuesday, where services have been set for 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The Rev. Monroe Schuster, pastor of the Anderson Central Christian church, will be in charge of the services and burial will be in the family lot in the Harris cemetery in Union township.
Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday afternoon from 2 o'clock until 9 o'clock in the evening. They are invited to attend the rites.
Mr. Baker was born on the Baker farm in Union township, on Jan. 9, 1906, and his parents were the late Sherman and Dessie Badgley Baker. He received his education in the Union township schools and was graduated from that high school in 1923.
Began Career at Union
He then went 12 weeks to Normal Training and began his teaching career that fall in the Union township school. Mr. Baker became principal of the old Bargersville grade school where he remained until 1936, when he went to Anderson as a teacher in the schools there. Later he was principal in the Mt. Hope school and ten years ago he became principal of the Central Junior High School in Anderson.
During the summers while Mr. Baker was teaching he received his A. B. and Master's degrees from Butler University.
Mr. Baker began his career as an athlete in the Union school. During his high school days he was an outstanding player on the basketball and baseball teams in that high school.
For 30 years he had been one of the outstanding officials in both high school and college sports of all kinds. For five years he was an official at the state final basketball tournaments and had also refereed college games in the state.
In 1929 Mr. Baker was married to Miss Helen Yaste at Whiteland and a daughter was born to them.
A member of the Christian Chapel church since his boyhood, Mr. Baker had continued his membership there. He was a member of the Union Village Masonic Lodge No. 545, the Scottish Rite of Indianapolis and the Indiana School Men's Club.
The widow survives with the daughter, Tomya Baker, a junior in the Anderson High School; two brothers, Custer Baker, of Providence, superintendent of the Johnson county schools, and Kye Baker, of Cashmere, Wash,; and four sisters, Mrs. Tilford Spicer, of Providence, Mrs. Elizabeth French, Mrs. Irma Terrill, and Mrs. Claudia Yount, of Martinsville.
*Published in the Franklin Evening Star, 16 May 1955, page 1 & 8, with photo.
Funeral services Will Be Conducted Here On Wednesday
Death came to a former Johnson county resident and well known figure in state athletics, when Thomas Sherman Baker, died in the St. John's Hospital at Anderson, Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Baker suffered a heart attack at the Central Junior High School where he was principal, and was taken to the hospital. He appeared to be recovering and then suffered another seizure shortly after noon Sunday.
The body was taken to the Baker Brothers funeral home in Anderson and will be brought to the Flinn and Maguire funeral home Tuesday, where services have been set for 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The Rev. Monroe Schuster, pastor of the Anderson Central Christian church, will be in charge of the services and burial will be in the family lot in the Harris cemetery in Union township.
Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday afternoon from 2 o'clock until 9 o'clock in the evening. They are invited to attend the rites.
Mr. Baker was born on the Baker farm in Union township, on Jan. 9, 1906, and his parents were the late Sherman and Dessie Badgley Baker. He received his education in the Union township schools and was graduated from that high school in 1923.
Began Career at Union
He then went 12 weeks to Normal Training and began his teaching career that fall in the Union township school. Mr. Baker became principal of the old Bargersville grade school where he remained until 1936, when he went to Anderson as a teacher in the schools there. Later he was principal in the Mt. Hope school and ten years ago he became principal of the Central Junior High School in Anderson.
During the summers while Mr. Baker was teaching he received his A. B. and Master's degrees from Butler University.
Mr. Baker began his career as an athlete in the Union school. During his high school days he was an outstanding player on the basketball and baseball teams in that high school.
For 30 years he had been one of the outstanding officials in both high school and college sports of all kinds. For five years he was an official at the state final basketball tournaments and had also refereed college games in the state.
In 1929 Mr. Baker was married to Miss Helen Yaste at Whiteland and a daughter was born to them.
A member of the Christian Chapel church since his boyhood, Mr. Baker had continued his membership there. He was a member of the Union Village Masonic Lodge No. 545, the Scottish Rite of Indianapolis and the Indiana School Men's Club.
The widow survives with the daughter, Tomya Baker, a junior in the Anderson High School; two brothers, Custer Baker, of Providence, superintendent of the Johnson county schools, and Kye Baker, of Cashmere, Wash,; and four sisters, Mrs. Tilford Spicer, of Providence, Mrs. Elizabeth French, Mrs. Irma Terrill, and Mrs. Claudia Yount, of Martinsville.
*Published in the Franklin Evening Star, 16 May 1955, page 1 & 8, with photo.
Thomas S. Baker Dies Sunday At Anderson Hospital
Funeral services Will Be Conducted Here On Wednesday
Death came to a former Johnson county resident and well known figure in state athletics, when Thomas Sherman Baker, died in the St. John's Hospital at Anderson, Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Baker suffered a heart attack at the Central Junior High School where he was principal, and was taken to the hospital. He appeared to be recovering and then suffered another seizure shortly after noon Sunday.
The body was taken to the Baker Brothers funeral home in Anderson and will be brought to the Flinn and Maguire funeral home Tuesday, where services have been set for 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The Rev. Monroe Schuster, pastor of the Anderson Central Christian church, will be in charge of the services and burial will be in the family lot in the Harris cemetery in Union township.
Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday afternoon from 2 o'clock until 9 o'clock in the evening. They are invited to attend the rites.
Mr. Baker was born on the Baker farm in Union township, on Jan. 9, 1906, and his parents were the late Sherman and Dessie Badgley Baker. He received his education in the Union township schools and was graduated from that high school in 1923.
Began Career at Union
He then went 12 weeks to Normal Training and began his teaching career that fall in the Union township school. Mr. Baker became principal of the old Bargersville grade school where he remained until 1936, when he went to Anderson as a teacher in the schools there. Later he was principal in the Mt. Hope school and ten years ago he became principal of the Central Junior High School in Anderson.
During the summers while Mr. Baker was teaching he received his A. B. and Master's degrees from Butler University.
Mr. Baker began his career as an athlete in the Union school. During his high school days he was an outstanding player on the basketball and baseball teams in that high school.
For 30 years he had been one of the outstanding officials in both high school and college sports of all kinds. For five years he was an official at the state final basketball tournaments and had also refereed college games in the state.
In 1929 Mr. Baker was married to Miss Helen Yaste at Whiteland and a daughter was born to them.
A member of the Christian Chapel church since his boyhood, Mr. Baker had continued his membership there. He was a member of the Union Village Masonic Lodge No. 545, the Scottish Rite of Indianapolis and the Indiana School Men's Club.
The widow survives with the daughter, Tomya Baker, a junior in the Anderson High School; two brothers, Custer Baker, of Providence, superintendent of the Johnson county schools, and Kye Baker, of Cashmere, Wash,; and four sisters, Mrs. Tilford Spicer, of Providence, Mrs. Elizabeth French, Mrs. Irma Terrill, and Mrs. Claudia Yount, of Martinsville.
*Published in the Franklin Evening Star, 16 May 1955, page 1 & 8, with photo.
Funeral services Will Be Conducted Here On Wednesday
Death came to a former Johnson county resident and well known figure in state athletics, when Thomas Sherman Baker, died in the St. John's Hospital at Anderson, Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Baker suffered a heart attack at the Central Junior High School where he was principal, and was taken to the hospital. He appeared to be recovering and then suffered another seizure shortly after noon Sunday.
The body was taken to the Baker Brothers funeral home in Anderson and will be brought to the Flinn and Maguire funeral home Tuesday, where services have been set for 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The Rev. Monroe Schuster, pastor of the Anderson Central Christian church, will be in charge of the services and burial will be in the family lot in the Harris cemetery in Union township.
Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday afternoon from 2 o'clock until 9 o'clock in the evening. They are invited to attend the rites.
Mr. Baker was born on the Baker farm in Union township, on Jan. 9, 1906, and his parents were the late Sherman and Dessie Badgley Baker. He received his education in the Union township schools and was graduated from that high school in 1923.
Began Career at Union
He then went 12 weeks to Normal Training and began his teaching career that fall in the Union township school. Mr. Baker became principal of the old Bargersville grade school where he remained until 1936, when he went to Anderson as a teacher in the schools there. Later he was principal in the Mt. Hope school and ten years ago he became principal of the Central Junior High School in Anderson.
During the summers while Mr. Baker was teaching he received his A. B. and Master's degrees from Butler University.
Mr. Baker began his career as an athlete in the Union school. During his high school days he was an outstanding player on the basketball and baseball teams in that high school.
For 30 years he had been one of the outstanding officials in both high school and college sports of all kinds. For five years he was an official at the state final basketball tournaments and had also refereed college games in the state.
In 1929 Mr. Baker was married to Miss Helen Yaste at Whiteland and a daughter was born to them.
A member of the Christian Chapel church since his boyhood, Mr. Baker had continued his membership there. He was a member of the Union Village Masonic Lodge No. 545, the Scottish Rite of Indianapolis and the Indiana School Men's Club.
The widow survives with the daughter, Tomya Baker, a junior in the Anderson High School; two brothers, Custer Baker, of Providence, superintendent of the Johnson county schools, and Kye Baker, of Cashmere, Wash,; and four sisters, Mrs. Tilford Spicer, of Providence, Mrs. Elizabeth French, Mrs. Irma Terrill, and Mrs. Claudia Yount, of Martinsville.
*Published in the Franklin Evening Star, 16 May 1955, page 1 & 8, with photo.
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