Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Baker, George W. 1921
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Payette Enterprise 5-5-1921
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, May 5, 1921
 
BELOVED CITIZEN ANSWERS CALL
 
GEORGE W. BAKER
 
George W. Baker, of this city, died in Portland, Ore., Saturday afternoon, 
April 30, at 10 minutes to three o'clock.  Mr. Baker suffered break-down last 
fall from valvula heart trouble and began to fail rapidly during the winter.  
The end came at the home of his son, Malcolm D. Baker, in Portland, where he 
had been taken from Payette about the middle of March in the hope that his 
health would be benefitted by the change of altitude.  It was, however, of no 
avail as he grew steadily weaker in his unequal fight with death and it had 
been realized for sometime that he had practically no chance for recovery.
 
At his bedside when the end came - of his immediate family, were his wife, who 
had accompanied him to Portland, his son, Malcolm, of that city, and his 
daughter, Mrs. Earl Venable, of Payette.  The sad news was brought to Payette 
in a telegram Saturday afternoon to Mr. Venable, who left that afternoon for 
Portland.  Mr. Baker leaves also in this city to mourn his loss a sister, Mrs. 
D. W. Alney.
 
Funeral services were conducted in Portland Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock, 
from the home of the son, by Dr. W. B. Henson, pastor of the East Side Baptist 
Church of that city.  Interment was in Mount Scott Cemetery, Portland.
 
George W. Baker was born at New Castle, Green county, Indiana, August 8, 
1849.  As a small boy he moved with his parents to Jasper County, Iowa, and in 
that state he spend many years of his useful and active life.  April 16, 1873, 
he was united in marriage with Miss Abbie M. Ellis, in Polk County, Iowa, the 
devoted wife who watched at his bedside only two weeks before he died, upon 
their forty-eighth wedding anniversary.  To this long and happy union were 
born six sons and one daughter, all of whom survive except the second son, 
Charles F., who died in infancy.  The living are; Claude M., of Chicago, Ill.; 
Ward E., of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Malcolm D. of Portland, Ore.; George A., of 
San Antonio, Texas; Kate E. Venable, of Payette, Idaho, and Dwight S., of San 
Francisco, Calif.  Besides his sister, Mrs. D. W. Alney, of Payette.  Mr. 
Baker also leaves a brother, W. H. Baker, of Des Moines, Iowa.
 
Twenty-seven years of his life Mr. Baker resided in Des Moines, Iowa, where he 
was prominent in business and financial circles.  To Des Moines he brought his 
young wife early in their married life and in that city all of their children 
were born.  He was for a number of years cashier of the Capaital City State 
Bank of Des Moines and was later treasurer of the Iowa Building & Loan 
association there.  He was also active in church work in Des Moines.  In his 
early manhood he became a member of the East Des Moines Baptist church and was 
for many years superintendent of its Sunday school.  Later upon coming to 
Payette, he was actively affiliated with the Baptist Church of this city and 
for a conciderable time superintendent of the Sunday school.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Baker with their daughter, who was later married here, and their 
youngest son, Dwight came to Payette in March, 1902.  Here they had since 
resided with the exception of four years spent at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a 
year at Wendell, Idaho.  They returned to Payette in March of last year from 
Wendell after five years' absence, and Mr. Baker, again became connected with 
the First National Bank of this city with which institution before returning 
to Iowa in 1915 he had for several years held the position of assistant 
cashier.
 
It is rarely that a death has so grieved a whole community as his the passing 
of George W. Baker.  Words are sometimes used loosely but it is not too much 
to say of him that he was loved not only by his family and immediate friends 
but by his business associates and all who came within the circle of his 
influence.  The reason is not far to seek because the name of George W. Baker 
must be written high among those who have loved their fellow men.  Blessed 
with splendid health until the final break-down came he went his way through 
life with rare energy and unfailing cheerfulness.  To him life was but an 
opportunity for good deeds, right living  and right  thinking.  He lived his 
religion day by day and year by year.  His faith was screne and as simple as 
that of a child.  So that when  he realized that his end was near he accepted 
it calmly and with no need of preparation.  He bore his suffering wihout 
complaint and passed into the presence of his maker as confidently as he had 
lived -- a kind and loving husband and father, a good neighbor and a true 
friend, in every sense of the word a Christian gentleman.

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