OBIT: Charles Z. BAKER, 1941, Duncansville, Blair County, PA

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CHARLES Z. BAKER

A retired Pittsburgh division trainman and former councilman of 
Duncansville borough, died at his home, 406 Sixteenth street, that 
place, on Saturday morning at 10.15 o'clock after a lengthy illness. He 
had been bedfast for the past twelve weeks and in ill health long 
before, necessitating his retirement from the service of the 
Pennsylvania railroad because of disability in October, 1938, after a 
long period of service as a flagman and conductor on the Pittsburgh 
division. He was born on Dec. 8, 1874, at Ore Hill and was a son of 
Andrew and Susan (Zook) Baker. On Jan. 30, 1895, he was united in 
marriage with Miss Mary Jane Brown of Taylor township, this county, the 
ceremony taking place at her parental home. Shortly afterwards they 
took up housekeeping in Duncansville in the same house in which he 
died, living there ever since. Mr. Baker is survived by his wife, three 
children, Mrs. Alma Hammaker and Mrs. Florence Greenleaf of 
Duncansville and Clair Baker of Allegheny township, near Duncansville; 
three sisters, Mrs. Fred Himes, Mrs. John Yingling and Mrs. Essie 
Garber, all of Roaring Spring; two brothers, Bertram Baker also of 
Roaring Spring and Eli Baker of Roaring Spring, R.D., twenty-two 
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Two daughters, Lillian Mae, 
who died in infancy, and Mrs. Cleo Teeter, who died last October, 
predeceased him. He served two terms on the Duncansville borough 
council, rounding out his second term the first of January last year. 
He was a member of the Duncansville Lutheran church for many years, and 
also was a member of the local Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. 
Friends are being received at the family home.

Altoona Mirror, Monday, May 5, 1941, p. 18, col. 1