OBIT: Christian H. BAKER, 1976, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  CHRISTIAN BAKER
  
  Christian H. Baker, 82, the son of Samuel and Mary Miller Baker, died
  November 19.  He was born and raised near Salisbury, where the family
  engaged in farming.  He and his first wife, Mary Keim Baker, moved to
  Uniontown, Fayette County, during the 1920's and continued to farm and
  operate several coal mines in the Masontown-New Geneva area.  Following
  retirement in 1956, Mr. Baker moved to Vista, California and continued to
  live there until his death at Tri-City Hospital, Oceanside, following a
  recurring bout with cancer.
  Surviving are his widow, Margaret Goldsborough Baker; the following
  children: Dr. Grace Goebel, Ross, Calif.; Ruth Lang, San Diego, Calif.;
  Betty Shadburn, Long Beach, Calif.; Virginia Shallenberger, Marietta, Ohio;
  Marie Long, Pasadena, Calif.; thirteen grandchildren, and one sister, Orpha
  Wagner, Phoenix, Arizona.
  Services were conducted by Dr. Graeme Smith, Vista Community Church, of
  which Mr. Baker was an active member and elder.  Interment rites were 
  held at Eternal Hills, Oceanside, Calif., November 20, 1976.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, December 2, 1976
  
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