Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Baker, Robert N. Jr., 1967 

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ROBERT NEWTON BAKER, JR.

FUNERAL DIRECTOR DIES AT 60

   SUFFOLK - Robert Newton Baker, Jr., 60, partner and manager of the R.W. 
Baker & Co. Funeral Home here for 27 years, died Thursday at his home 509 
W. Washington St.

   He was a past president of the Virginia Funeral Directors Association 
and had been secretary-treasurer of the Tidewater group for 20 years.

   A Suffolk native, he was the son of the late Robert N. Baker Sr. and 
Mrs. Ethel Ames Baker who survivors him.  He is also survived by his wife, 
Mrs. Allie Oliver Baker.

   Mr. Baker was a graduate of Suffolk High School and Virginia Military 
Institure with a degree in electrical engineering.

   He was a member of Main Street Methodist Church and a past lay member of 
the annual Virginia Methodist Conference.  He was a member of the Virginia 
Conference Board of Missions and a past steward of the Portsmouth Methodist 
District.

   Other survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Allie Baker Brueggeman of 
Virginia Beach, Mrs. Roberta Baker Powell of Suffolk and Mrs. Lynn Baker 
Baines of Syracuse, N.Y. , and a son, Robert Newton Baker, III of Suffolk.

   A funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Main Street Methodist 
Church.  The body will be taken from Baker Funeral Home at 12:30 p.m. 
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.


Robert Newton BAKER, Jr., manager of R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home, 
Suffolk native, d. 23 Nov 1967, at home, Suffolk, age 60, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 79*), Suffolk, 25 Nov 1967, 
"The Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Nov. 25, 1967 

*His parents are buried in Block H, Lot 47. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

His father's ("Smithfield Times," Apr. 25, 1940, p. 1) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b260r3ob.txt 

His widow's obit ("Virginian-Pilot," Apr. 21, 1990) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b260a1ob.txt 


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