McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    	JOHN BAKER

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::Broken Bow Cemetery--Broken Bow OK

McCurtain County Local Newspaper: April 9, 1931

JOHN BAKER COMMITTED SUICIDE

Monday morning about 8:30 o'clock the citizens of Broken Bow were 
shocked as the sad news was passed around that John Baker, aged 80, 
had committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a 45 
caliber pistol.

Mr. Baker was never married and had been making his home with his 
brother,Joe Baker, for the past several months, at which place he 
ended his life.

The infirmaties of old age is said to be the cause of Mr. Baker 
taking this means of ending his worldly troubles.

The deceased is survived by three brothers and two sisters, R.C. and 
Joe Baker, of Broken Bow, and C.A. Baker; Mrs. Lizzie L. Bran, Kansas 
City, Mo.; Mrs. Clara Finley, Fort Worth, Texas.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the 
home of Joe Baker, by Rev. A.R. Luton, pastor of the First Methodist 
Church.

Interment was made in the Broken Bow cemetery.

The News extends sincere sympathy to the grief stricken relatives.
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