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Submitted: 12/15/20 • Approved: 12/15/20 • Last Updated: 12/18/20 • R372115-G0-S3
August 18, 1904-August 31, 1980
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Services for Leonard D. Baker of 213 Dolomita, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Ed Brown & Sons Chapel of the Fountains, with the Rev. Michael O'Conner, pastor of Bunavista United Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park by Ed Brown & Sons.
Mr. Baker died at 10:30 p.m. Sunday in Magic Plains Nursing Home.
A retired safety supervisor for Phillips Petroleum Company at the Plains Plant, Mr. Baker was an elder at Bunavista United Methodist Church. He was a member of Isom Masonic Lodge No. 1242.
Survivors include his wife, Blanche; one son, Dr. Thomas L. Baker of Andrews; one brother, M.A. of Modesto, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. David Roberts of Claypool, Ariz., and Mrs. M.A. Wortham of Muskogee, Okla.; and one grandson.
Honorary pallbearers will be Herman Robinson, W.R. Horton, Louis Kleiss, Jesse Derr, W.E. Medler, C.E. Coble, O.R. Kiphart, Wayne Melton, George Glasscock, Ken Blewit [sic], Steve Oates and E.W. Whitson.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Tuesday, September 2, 1980)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Leonard Baker
Death Date: 31 Aug 1980
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Leonard Dee Baker
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 76
Birth Date: 18 Aug 1904
Birth Place: Arkansas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 31 Aug 1980
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: Newton J Baker
Mother: Ollie Roxie Pearson
Spouse: Blanche Mades
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Leonard Baker
Last Residence:
79007 Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
BORN: 18 Aug 1904
Last Benefit: 79007, Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, United States of America
Died: Aug 1980
Contributor: Edith Guynes Stanley
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