Verne Baker

BAKER, PIERCE

Posted By: Mari Nielsen - volunteer (email)
Date: 2/9/2010 at 23:38:03

VERNE BAKER

Wapello – Verne McKay Baker, 81, Wapello, died early this morning at the Wapello Nursing Home.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home. Rev. Richard Smith will officiate. Burial is in the Wapello Cemetery. Visitation begins Friday afternoon. A memorial fund has been established at the funeral home.

The son of Horace and Katherine Pierce Baker, he was born Aug. 17, 1900 in Winfield. He was a life resident of the Wapello area and had served in the U.S. Navy. Mr. Baker had worked as a chauffeur and truck driver for 30 years.

One brother, Pierce of Iowa City, survives.

He was preceded in death by two brothers.

Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of October 1, 1981