Obituaries: Pearl Johnson Baker, 1984, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 7, 1984 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Mrs. Pearl J. Baker

Services for Mrs. C. M. (Pearl) Baker, 78, of Minden, were held at 2 p.m.
Friday, March 2, 1984 at the Rose-Neath Funeral Home Chapel in Minden.  Dr.
Ronald Prince officiated.  Burial was in Garden of Memory in Minden.

Mrs. Baker, the widow of the late Dr. Claude M. Baker, Sr., M. D. of Minden,
died Wednesday, February 28, 1984, at her residence following a lengthy
illness.  

Mrs. Pearl Baker was born at New Verda, La., on December 2, 1905.  She was the
daughter of James Lawrence Johnson and Minni Lou McManus Johnson.  She
attended Verda High School, graduating in 1923.  She attended Louisiana
College and Northwestern at Natchitoches.  She taught school for two years in
one-room schools.  Mrs. Pearl Baker was a member of the church choir.  She was
a Sunday School teacher and was active in other ladies organizations of the
City of Minden.  She was "Woman of the Year" in the 1950s.

Survivors include four stepsons and three sisters, Mrs. Allie Dyson of
Cameron, La., Mrs. Myrtle Watts of Haughton, La., and Mrs. Ida Lee Collier of
Atlanta, La.; fourteen grandchildren, numerous great grandchildren, and
several nieces and nephews.