Baker, Everett 1913-1994

BAKER, BAIR, TRAUBE

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 1/16/2005 at 19:14:46

Everett Baker, 81, a resident of the Newton Health Care Center since 1992 and a former longtime resident of rural Haverhill, died Sunday, July 17, at the Skiff Medical Center.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Baxter Congregational United Church of Christ.

The Rev. Charles Holmgren, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in St. John’s Cemetery in Haverhill.

Visitation with the family will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Boyd-David Funeral Home in Baxter.

Memorials to the Everett Baker Memorial Fund will be accepted.

Survivors are his wife, Margaret of Baxter; a daughter, Delores (Mrs. Charles) Jennings of Haverhill; a son, Robert, of Marshalltown; two step-sons, Tommy Johnston of Wahoo, Neb., and Wendell Johnston of Costa Mesa, Calif.; two step-daughters, Carol (Mrs. Dennis) Jontz of Baxter and Janice (Mrs. Dennis) Lynch of fort Collins, Colo.; six grandchildren; 10 step-grandchildren; and a step-great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, Lydia, in 1981, his step-mother, two sisters, two sons and a granddaughter.

Mr. Baker, who farmed and operated a trucking business near Haverhill for many years, retired from farming in 1980 but continued his trucking business until 1991.

He was a member of St. John’s United Church of Christ in Haverhill and later became a member of the Congregational United Church of Christ in Baxter.

The son of Charles and Bertha Bair Baker, he was born July 7, 1913 in Newton and was educated in Newton schools.

He was married to Lydia Traube Sept. 7, 1935 in Rudd and to Margaret Johnston Dec. 12, 1981 in Haverhill. ~ The Newton Daily News, Newton Iowa, July 19, 1994.