Champaign County OhArchives Obituaries.....Baker, Geneva (Bair) January 31, 1936
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The St. Paris News-Dispatch
Mrs. Simon BAKER, 27, popular young mother of Terre Haute, passed away at the 
Champaign County Hospital at Urbana at 3 o'clock this morning of burns 
suffered yesterday morning at her home when her clothes became ignited as the 
result of a mishap while cooking. Both Mr. and Mrs. BAKER were removed to the 
hospital for treatment, the mother being more severely burned.
Mrs. BAKER's wounds were inflicted while she was cooking meat on a kerosene 
stove. When it boiled over onto the stove burner the flames spread rapidly 
throughout the room due to the heavy content of grease, and in her attemp to 
extinguish the blaze her clothes became ignited. Every shred of clothing had 
been burned from her body when she and her husband were removed from the 
burning residence by neighbors. Both were lying on the kitchen floor amid the 
flames in a semi-conscious condition when found. Mr. Baker is reported today 
has having a fair chance for recovery.
Mrs. BAKER was a member of the "Westville Methodist Church" and was wlll known 
throughout this section, being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jason BAIR of 
Westville.
Surviving her are her husband, one son, Homer, 6, and a daughter, Helen, 5, in 
addition to her parents, two sister, Mrs. Edwin DAVIS, Springfield, and Miss 
Ruth BAIR, Urbana, and four brothers, A. J. BAIR, Jason Jr., Marvin and 
Raymond.
Funeral service will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Westville 
Methodist Church, the Rev. Fields of Terre Haute officiating. Rev. Charles 
FURROW, Urbana will assist. Interment will be made in the Honey Creek Cemetery 
by Frank & Barger, funeral directors.


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