Obits: BAKER, HELEN, Caddo Parish, LA
Submitted by:  Peggy Hale
Date Submitted:  May 24, 2007
Contact:  Peggyhale@aol.com
Source: The Shreveport Times


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Helen Baker

VIVIAN, LA - Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Baker, 92, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 23, 2007
at McGuire Funeral Home Chapel with Ben Brewster, minister of Airline Church of Christ officiating. Burial
 will be at Evans Richie Memorial Gardens, Vivian, LA. 

Mrs. Baker, a homemaker, died May 21, 2007 at Garden Park Nursing Home, Shreveport after a period 
of declining health. She was born March 2, 1915 in Arkadelphia, AR and was a resident of the Vivian/Oil 
City area since 1945 until recently when she resided in West Monroe and Shreveport, LA. She was a
 member of Vivian and Airline Church of Christ. She was a Sunday School teacher, former Cub Scout
 den mother and room mother for the Vivian School, was a former member of the Vivian Garden Club 
and a loving grandmother. 

She was preceded in death by her husband Lester E. Baker; 2 sisters and 3 brothers. 

She is survived by her son and his wife Les Baker and Melinda of Ida, LA; daughters Patricia Kee 
of Russellville, AR, Mary (Betty) Coile and her husband Charles of Ennis, TX; sister Frances Kelly 
of Lancaster, TX; brother and his wife Frank and Goldie Noblit of Sulphur; 8 grandchildren; and 
15 great-grandchildren. 

Pallbearers will be her grandsons and great-grandson. 

The family wishes to express their deep appreciation to St. Joseph's Hospice and to the staff at 
Garden Park Nursing Home for their loving care. McGuire Funeral Home