Mary Jo Baker 1931 - 2008

BAKER, MULRONEY, OLIVER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/24/2014 at 08:34:48

Sioux City Journal
13 March 2008

Mary Jo Baker, 77, of Sioux City died Monday, March 10, 2008, at a Sioux City hospital following a brief illness.

Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, with the Rev. Merlin Schrad officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a vigil service at 7:30 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mary Jo was born Jan. 18, 1931, in Emmetsburg, Iowa, the daughter of Cletus and Maureen (Mulroney) Oliver. She graduated from Emmetsburg Catholic High School in 1949. She moved to Sioux City in 1951.

She married Jack W. Baker on March 1, 1952, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Sioux City. She worked part-time for the Shrine Circus office for 27 years. She worked at the Boys and Girls Home as a home health care provider for five years. She then was employed at Western Iowa Tech Community College with promise jobs for 13 years, retiring in 2001.

She was an avid bridge player, playing with two different groups of which one had been a member for 53 years. The couple were members of a 500 card club that played together for 50 years. She had been active in church activities throughout the years and had been a member of the Catholic Daughters of America for 50 years.

Survivors include her husband, Jack W.; six children and spouses, Joe and Paula Baker of Victorville, Calif., Cathy and Bob Skarin of Sioux City, Patty and Walter Max of Rochester, Minn., Bill and Karen Baker of Sioux City, Mary Beth Bailey of Los Angeles, Calif., and Bridget and Tim Cuka of Prescott, Ariz.; nine grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a sister, Patricia Neary of Emmetsburg, Iowa; two brothers, James Oliver of Bancroft, Iowa, and Jerry Oliver of Houston, Texas; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and a daughter-in-law, Carol Baker of Rapid City, S.D.

Pallbearers will be her grandchildren.