OBIT: Lena (CONRAD) BAKER, 1918, Catfish, Blair County, PA

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BAKER.

  Mrs. Lena Conrad Baker, wife of Blair Baker, died at the family home 
at Catfish yesterday morning at 2.30 o'clock after a short illness from 
an attack of influenza.  She was born in Newry 28 years ago, the 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Conrad and is survived by her husband 
and parents and by one sister, Miss Laura, at home, and one brother, 
Stanley Conrad of this city.  She was a constant member of the Newry 
Lutheran church.  Interment will be made in the Lutheran cemetery at 
Newry.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, October 31, 1918

NEWRY

  The good people of the town and neighborhood were shocked beyond 
measure, when the sad news was flashed from ear to ear, that Mrs. Lena 
Conrad Baker, one of the best known and respected matrons in all the 
community had passed away on Wednesday morning, at 2.30 o'clock after a 
short illness.  About a week ago she was attacked with the Spanish flu, 
but as she was of a robust nature her friends hoped that she would be 
able to safely combat the disease and only within the last few days, 
did it assume a violent form.  Everything that medical skill and kind 
friends could do, proved of no avail, and the end came as peacefully as 
a summers morning.  Mrs. Baker was the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Daniel Conrad, of Allegheny street, and was born and reared under the 
shadow of the town, where she grew up into a very attractive woman 
amidst the surroundings of a happy home.  She infused into the life of 
her companions the glow and sunshine of lively womanhood, and where she 
went all seemed to take pleasure in following in her footsteps.  A few 
years ago she became the wife of Blair Baker, a prosperous young farmer 
of Blair township, residing at Catfish, and there was seemingly a 
bright future before them.  But the allwise Creator has willed it other 
wise and although the loss to her young husband, her parents and 
brother and sister and her many friends is a sad one, we must all 
submit to his mandate.  She will be much missed in the church in the 
Sunday school and all social gatherings.  She will also be missed in 
the meetings of the Catfish literary society of which she was one of 
its most attentive and brightest members devoting her time and her 
talents to the upbuilding and progressive spirit of advancing the 
interest of the community, morally and intellectually.    In all these 
gatherings, she was a leading spirit but now she is gone from our 
midst, to that land from which no traveler has yet returned.  And as we 
who are left behind gather around our social gatherings, may we not 
believe that Lena is looking down upon us from the eternal heights of 
her heavenly home, with that benign smile with which she was wont to 
greet her friend while here on earth.  Besides her deceased husband, 
she is survived by her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Daniel Conrad, one 
sister, Miss Laura of Newry, and one brother, Stanley Conrad, of 
Altoona, too all of which we extend our sympathy and condolences in 
this their hour of sad bereavement.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, October 31, 1918