OBIT: Frank William BAKER, 1944, Greenville Township, Somerset County, PA

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FRANK WILLIAM BAKER

  Frank William Baker died at his home in Greenville Township at 12:20 a.m., on 
Sunday, November 26th, of silicosis, which he contracted about three years ago 
while a fire clay miner for the Union Mining Co., at Mt. Savage, Md.  He was 
unable to work the last year and a half, but was not bedfast much of the time. 
  He was born in Greenville Township on March 26, 1899, a son of the late 
Solomon and Alwilda (Berkebile) Baker and lived 45 years and 8 months.  
Surviving are his wife, the former Martha L. Keefer, and three children, Betty 
Louise, Grace Elizabeth and Samuel Franklin; four sisters, Mrs. William Keefer, 
Meyersdale; Mrs. Samuel Mathias, Somerset, and Mrs. Jacob Baer and Mae Baker of 
Greenville Township and six brothers: Jesse, Meyersdale; Elmer, Cumberland, and 
Harvey F., George, Clarence A., and John, of Greenville Township.
  He was a member of the White Oak Reformed Church, but funeral services were 
conducted at St. Mark's Reformed Church in Pocahontas, at 2:30 p.m. on 
Wednesday, November 29th, with Rev. J. E. Gindlesperger officiating.  Interment 
in the Greenville Cemetery with Mortician Stanley M. Thomas in charge.

Meyersdale Republican, November 30, 1944