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Ralph Floyd Baker

BAKER, GILBERT, FREY, KURTZWEIL, MITCHELL

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/18/2006 at 18:47:28

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
June 10, 1959

RALPH BAKER Of Winterset Dies

Ralph F. Baker, a life-long resident of Winterset, died Wednesday, June 3, 1959, at a Des Moines hospital. He was 61 years of age, and had been a patient at the hospital for several weeks.

Mr. Baker had been employed for 40 years as a Madison county road maintenance man.

A son of John A. and Ida M. Gilbert Baker, he was born in Winterset Dec. 5, 1897. He was married in Des Moines on Nov. 24, 1920, to Velma Frey.

Surviving are his wife; three sons, John and Ralph Baker, Jr. of Winterset and Billy Baker of Cedar Rapids; two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Kurtzweil and Mrs. Ethel Mitchell, both of Des Moines. He also leaves 12 grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Friday from the Richards Funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Robert A. Owens, pastor of the Winterset Christian church. Burial was made in the Winterset Cemetery.


 

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