Baker, Margaret V. 1911-1971

BAKER, CUTLER, SHULL, JENNISON

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 2/3/2005 at 09:30:41

Margaret Baker Services Set

Funeral services for Margaret V. Baker, 60, 213 E. 4th St. S., a lifelong resident of Newton, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Toland-Wallace Funeral Home.

The Rev. Edwin Frohardt, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Survivors are two uncles, Harvey R. Shull of Oskaloosa and William Shull of Ames; two aunts, Mrs. Melo Cutler of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Dora Jennison of Beverly Hills, Calif.; and several cousins. ~ Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, May 26, 1971
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Office Closed: The Jasper County recorder's office will be closed between 10 and 12 noon Friday in memory of Margaret Baker, former county recorder.

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including Roy Brock of Newton and his two daughters, Mrs. Jack (Roberta) Findley of Green Bay, Wis., and Mrs. Russel (Beverly) Schakel of Monroe.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Miss Baker was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Chamber of Commerce, Jasper County Farm Bureau, B & P Women's Club, League of Women Voters and Iowa State Association of County Officers.

She was past president of Conservation Credit Union and former chairman of the Jasper County Red Cross.

Miss Baker, who served as Jasper County recorder from 1956 until 1971, was a bookkeeper at Walgreen's Drug Store in Newton until it was destroyed by fire and had been an employee of the United Telephone Co. She also had been employed in the Jasper Co. assessor's office for four years.

The daughter of Alva and Mabel Shull Baker, she was born Aug. 7, 1910 at the Baker homestead in the Metz community, southwest of Newton.

Miss Baker died at her home following a heart attach.