Obit of Baker, John H - Grady County, Oklahoma Transcribed by: Maggie Wettengel 22 May 2005 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Rush Springs Cemetery--Rush Springs OK Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1782.1 Message Board Post: From the Rush Springs Gazette, Rush Springs, Grady county, Oklahoma, Thursday, August 12, 1971, front page. Funeral Services for John Baker Were Held Here Sunday. Funeral services for John H. Baker, 90, were held Sunday, August 8th at 2:30 p.m. from the Church of Christ in Rush Springs with Raymond Murray officiating. Baker was born May 26, 1881 in McClelan County, Texas and died Thursday, August 5th, at 11:55 p.m. at his home following a heart attack. He was married to Martha Leverett on December 4, 1904 in Montague County, Texas, and had lived in Rush Springs for 59 years. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Church of Christ. Burial was in the Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction of the Callaway-Smith Funeral Home. Bearers were C.C. Jinks Burnes Burns, Jim Leu, Glen Jones, M.L. Todd and Raymond Gibbs. Survivors include his wife, Martha Baker of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Margie Cloud of Rush Springs; one granddaughter, Mrs. Maxine Barrington of Rush Springs; 3 grandsons, Randle Cloud of Norman, Gary Cloud of Rush Springs and Douglas Cloud of Lawrence, Kansas and five great grandchildren. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html