BAKER, Mildred A.

BAKER, WILSON

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/15/2013 at 12:16:59

Mildred A. Baker, 95, died Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003, at the I.O.O.F. Home in Mason
City. A memorial service will be held Thursday, April 24, 1:30 p.m. at the
United Methodist Church, 508 2nd Ave N., Clear Lake, with the Rev. Jan Burnett
officiating. Visitation with the family will be one hour preceding the service
at 12:30 p.m. The interment was held February 3, 2003 in the Clear Lake
Cemetery.

Memorials can be given to the United Methodist Church in Clear Lake or to a
charity of your choice in memory of Mildred.

Mildred was born at the Pinewood Farm east of Clear Lake on Dec. 29, 1907, the
daughter of Laverne Charles and Gertrude (Wilson) Baker. She graduated from a
Lake Township rural school and went on to graduate from the Clear Lake High
School from the Normal Training Course. Mildred then attended the University of
Northern Iowa and graduated from the two year Primary Course. She then worked as
an elementary and primary teacher for fifteen years, teaching in rural schools
and in the towns of Goodell, Clarion, and Clear Lake. Mildred retired early from
teaching to take care of her mother and sisters. She was a life long member of
the United Methodist Church of Clear Lake and served as the Sunday School
Superintendent for many years.

Mildred is survived by four cousins, Frank R. Baker and his wife, Ruth Elaine,
of Clear Lake, Madge Brandau of Rudd, Iowa, Charleen Sivwright of Rockwell, Iowa
and Shirley Dean and her husband, Richard, of Mason City, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents: two sets of twin brothers in infancy;
and two sisters, Viola Ruth and Annie Lucy.