Viola G. Baker

BAKER, SPERRY, JACKSON, BROEKER, SMITH, LINDER

Posted By: Judy Kelley (email)
Date: 3/6/2009 at 21:30:53

Viola Grace Baker, age 95, New London, died Tuesday, August 2, 1994 at the Henry County Health Center in Mt. Pleasant.

The daughter of George Alfred and Ann Lucretia (Sperry) Jackson, she was born July 31, 1899, at Center, Missouri.

On July 27, 1920 she married William O. Baker at Wapello, Iowa; he died April 9, 1963. Viola cooked at the Morning Sun school for many years and was a homemaker for her family.

She is survived by three daughters; Grace Broeker of Morning Sun; Veda Smith of Diamond Bar, California; Shirley Linder of Stronghurst, Illinois; two sons William E. Baker of New London and Kenneth Baker of Arkansas; 15 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two sisters, one brother, one granddaughter, and one grandson.

Funeral services were held Friday, August 5, 1994 at 2:00 p.m. from the Hagele and Honts Funeral Home, Morning Sun, with Rev. Robert Dodder officiating. Musis was provided by Geneva Samuels, organist. Casket bearers were Bill Broeker, Larry Linder, Marvin Linder, Clarence Baker, Joe Lounsbury, and Brent Brocker. Internment was in the Elmwood Cemetery. A memorial has been established for the New London Rescue Unit.

Morning Sun News-Herald, 11 August 1994