Mildred A. BAKER

BAKER, WILSON, BRANDAU, SIVWRIGHT, DEAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/1/2008 at 14:01:27

Clear Lake Mirror Reporter, IA
April 2003

Mildred A. Baker, 95, died Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003, at the I.O.O.F. Home in Mason City. A memorial service will be held Thursday, April 24, 1:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 508 2nd Ave N., Clear Lake, with the Rev. Jan Burnett officiating. Visitation with the family will be one hour preceding the service at 12:30 p.m. The interment was held February 3, 2003 in the Clear Lake Cemetery. Memorials can be given to the United Methodist Church in Clear Lake or to a charity of your choice in memory of Mildred.

Mildred was born at the Pinewood Farm east of Clear Lake on Dec. 29, 1907, the daughter of Laverne Charles and Gertrude (Wilson) Baker. She graduated from a Lake Township rural school and went on to graduate from the Clear Lake High School from the Normal Training Course. Mildred then attended the University of Northern Iowa and graduated from the two year Primary Course. She then worked as an elementary and primary teacher for fifteen years, teaching in rural schools and in the towns of Goodell, Clarion, and Clear Lake. Mildred retired early from teaching to take care of her mother and sisters. She was a life long member of the United Methodist Church of Clear Lake and served as the Sunday School Superintendent for many years.

Mildred is survived by four cousins, Frank R. Baker and his wife, Ruth Elaine, of Clear Lake, Madge Brandau of Rudd, Iowa, Charleen Sivwright of Rockwell, Iowa and Shirley Dean and her husband, Richard, of Mason City, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her parents: two sets of twin brothers in infancy; and two sisters, Viola Ruth and Annie Lucy. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 110 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake is handling the arrangements.