Baber, Dorothy Eloise Stewart (1916-1980)

BABER, STEWRT, HERD, MARK, GRISWOLD, ANDERSON, NEELY

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 8/30/2016 at 19:49:34

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Tuesday, December 2, 1980

Mrs. Dorothy S. Baber, 64, wife of the late Frank A. Baber, died late Monday evening at Crestview Manor where she had resided since February, 1980. She had been in ill health the past year.

Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd with Father David Titus officiating and with burial in Graceland cemetery. Friends may call at the Foster Funeral home until noon Thursday when the casket will be taken to the church.

Dorothy Eloise Stewart, daughter of Arthur William and Lora Herd Stewart, was born Nov. 18, 1916 at Hutchinson, Kan. She was reared and educated in Hutchinson and later attended a lab and x-ray technician school in Kansas.

She was married Jan. 15, 1939 to Frank A. Baber and the couple resided in Joplin, Mo. In the fall of 1939, they moved to Mason City where they lived until November, 1946, when the family moved to Webster City. Mr. Baber then engaged in the implement business and later in the automobile business, operating the Baber Ford Co.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Nov. 26, 1971.

Mrs. Baber secured her securities broker license in 1969 and was employed by the R.G. Dickinson Co. in Webster City, but in April, 1974, she moved to Campbell, Calif., where she was a lab technician in a medical clinic. She returned to Webster City in February, 1980.

She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Jerome (Barbara) Mark of Sheridan, Wyo., Mrs. G. Robert (Trudy) Griswold of Westport, Conn., and Mrs. Jackie Anderson of Webster City; eight grandchildren; two brothers and one sister, Wayne Stewart of San Jose, Calif., James Stewart of Mountain View, Calif., and Mrs. Howard (Marjorie) Neely of Hays, Kan.; and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, one brother and two sisters.

She was a member of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd; the Women of the Moose, and a former member of the Webster City Country club.