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The Sun-Courier, Thursday, March 23, 1989

Nannie Roop Baker

Nannie Roop Baker, age 8, a resident of Arjay, KY., died Thursday, March 17, 
1989 at the Pineville Community Hospital. She was born October 27, 1900 in 
Laurel County, KY., the daughter of
the late Charlie Roop and Elizabeth Patterson Roop.  She was joined in holy 
matrimony February 28, 1929 in Bell County, KY., to Boad Baker, son of Grant and 
Nancy Grubbs Baker.  She was a member of the Walker Baptist Church, Walker, KY. 
She was preceded in death by mother and father, her husband, Boad Baker in 1973 
and one son, William “Billy” Melvin Baker in 1969. She is survived by nine 
children, Mrs. Elsie Bailey, Mrs. Ruby Goodin and James Baker, all of Arjay, 
KY., Guy Carpenter, Waukegan, IL., Mrs. Pauline Warren, Flat Lick, KY., Mrs. 
Thelma Webb, Mundelein, IL., Mrs. Lucy Baker, Dallas, TX., Mrs. Agnes Alons, Las 
Cruces, NM., and Charlie Baker, Walker, KY.; one brother, Curlis Roop, Richmond, 
KY.; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Jaynes, Walker, KY., and Mrs. Myrtle Cates,
Richmond, KY.; 34 grandchildren and 37 great grandchildren. Services were at 2 
p.m. Sunday, March 19 at the Durham Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Danny Robbins. 
 Burial followed in Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Middlesboro, KY. Her grandsons 
served as pallbearers. 
Durham  Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.