Bertie County NcArchives Obituaries.....Baker, Alberta Newsome 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net March 16, 2014, 4:03 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 02-11-1971, SECT. II, P. 11 ALBERTA NEWSOME BAKER COURTLAND – A funeral service for Mrs. Albert Newsome Baker was conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in Sandy Run Baptist Church, Roxobel, N.C. by the Rev. John R. Blanchard, assisted by the Rev. Harold Lewis. Burial was in the family cemetery with Garrett Funeral Home in charge. Pallbearers were Walter Baker, Samuel Baker, Walter J. Newsoms, William T. Newsoms, Donald baker and Jimmie Baker. Mrs. Baker, 96, died Thursday at 2:45 a.m. in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Vick. A native of Bertie County, she lived in the Courtland area more than six years. She was a daughter of David and Laura Bryant Newsome and the widow of Junius Gaston Baker. Surviving are three sons, William J. Baker, Rocky Mount, N.C., Roy N. Baker, Kelford, N.C. and David B. Baker, Marietta, Ga.; five daughters, Icie B. Baker and Elizabeth B. Vick, Courtland, Edna B. Burhett, Ahoskie, N.C., Mary B. White, Aulander, N.C. and Ruth Oakey, Indian Hood, Md.; one brother, W.W. Newsome, Suffolk; 30 grandchildren; 57 great-grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie/obits/b/baker1669nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb