Albert A. Baker (1959)

BAKER, MARKLEY, KIRK, KNOUF, STIFEL, MCCHESNEY, CARTER, BUSH, MOREY, ALLEN, DRAKE, PATTERSON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 7/18/2008 at 10:29:00

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
May 20, 1959

ALBERT A. BAKER,
St. Charles Man Takes Own Life

Albert A. Baker, 52, of St. Charles, fatally wounded himself Sunday afternoon in the trailer house at Bevington occupied by Wallace Grasty.

Baker was alone in the trailer at the time, but Grasty was nearby and heard the shot. When he investigated, Baker was found with a fatal head wound, from a rifle bullet. He died shortly after Sheriff Rex Rouse arrived.

Coroner Paul Eggleston arrived shortly later. After an investigation, he officially termed the death as suicide.

Mr. Baker was born in Osage county, Kansas, on April 17, 1907, a son of Rufus and Susan Markley Baker, but most of his life had been spent in Madison county.

He was married Sept. 4, 1937, to Maxine Kirk, who preceded him in death in 1948.

He was employed by the Des Moines Glove company as a cutter. He was a member of the Masonic lodge at St. Charles.

Surviving are a son, Dean Baker of St. Charles; his father and step-mother, Mr. And Mrs. Rufus Baker; three brothers, Clarence and Floyd Baker of Macksburg and Earl Baker of Peru; two sisters, Mrs. Virgil Knouf of Des Moines and Mrs. John Stifel of Selah, Wash.; three half brothers, Charles Baker of Tracy, Calif., Harold Baker of the U. S. navy, and Russell Baker of Des Moines; and seven half sisters, Mrs. Russell McChesney, Mrs. Laura Carter of Norwalk, Mrs. Gene Bush of Annabelle, Mo., Mrs. Claude Morey of Macksburg, Mrs. Glenn Allen of St. Charles and Mrs. Wanda Drake and Mrs. Ernie Patterson of Des Moines.

Funeral services were to be held this Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. From the Richarads Funeral home in Winterset, conducted by the Rev. Marlin Love of St. Charles. Burial was to be made in Union cemetery in Clarke county.

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