Custer County NeArchives Obituaries.....Baker, Russell J. March 2, 2009
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Lexington Clipper-Herald March 7, 2009
Russell J. Baker, 51, of Callaway, died Monday, March 2, 2009, at the Callaway 
District Hospital in Callaway. 

Funeral Services were Friday, March 6, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. at the Callaway 
Community Center in Callaway with the Rev. Jerry Schwarz and Pastor Dean 
Haidle officiating.   

Visitation was Thursday, March 5, 2009, at the Timm-Reynolds-Love Funeral Home 
in Callaway.
  
Survivors include his wife, Deena Baker; one son, Russ Baker; one daughter, 
Autumn Baker; mother and stepfather, Jean and Jiggs Gorn, all of Callaway; 
brothers, Roger Gorn of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Richard (Sandy) Baker of 
Thermopolis, Wyo., Roger (Debbie) Baker of Alamogordo, N.M.; mother-in-law, 
Pat Stanley of Memphis, Tenn.; stepbrother and stepsister, Gary and Vickie; 
father, Richard and numerous nieces, nephews and friends.  
 
Russell was preceded in death by his grandparents, father-in-law, Dick Stanley 
and stepsister, Debbie.  

He was born Feb. 26, 1958, at Omaha, to Richard and Jean (Fox) Baker.   
Russell attended grade school in Needles, Calif.  The family then moved back 
to Omaha where he graduated from Omaha Benson High School.  
 
At the age of 16 he paved his first driveway.  After high school Russell 
started a construction crew with his two brothers in Denver, Colo.  While 
working in Denver, he met the love of his life, Deena.  The couple lived in 
Maine where they ran a tourist business and his construction business.  They 
lived in Maine from 1987 to 1993 when they returned to Canon City, Colo.  The 
couple ran a miniature putt-putt golf course, go-cart track and ran two gift 
shops, and a concrete company until 2005.  In 2005, the couple moved to 
Callaway where he ran his own construction company.  


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