OBIT: Mrs. Mary BAKER, 1930, native of Somerset County, PA

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MARY BAKER

  Mrs. Noah Baker of Lincoln, Neb., died recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. 
C. Skilling, Beloit, Kansas after an illness of nine weeks' duration.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Baker had been in Beloit since November for a visit with their daughter and 
her husband.  Mrs. Baker became bedfast soon after Christmas.
  She was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1854.  Her marriage 
to Noah Baker took place May 11, 1871.  The home of the couple has been near 
Lincoln, Neb., for many years.
  Mrs. Baker leaves her husband, nine children, 32 grandchildren and three 
great-grandchildren.  One sister is living.  The bereaved husband is a brother 
of Joseph E. Baker of Greenville Township.
  Mrs. Baker's remains were taken to Lincoln, Neb., for burial, following a 
short service conducted by Rev. Norman R. Alter, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal 
Church, at the Skilling home in Beloit, Kansas, which is 175 miles from Lincoln, 
Neb.

Meyersdale Republican, February 13, 1930