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Submitted: 5/7/21 • Approved: 5/12/21 • Last Updated: 5/15/21 • R416788-G0-S3
Texas
MASTER SERGEANT Army Air Forces
World War II
April 15, 1913-March 14, 1970
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Rex Rogers Baker, 56, of 815 W. Tenth, are pending at Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
Baker died at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at North Plains Hospital. He had been a Borger resident since 1945 and was a maintenance supervisor for the National Park Service.
Survivors include his wife, Arlene; three sons, Sam J. Baker, Ashville, N.C., Dennis Baskin, Mesquite, and John Baskin, San Saba; one sister, Mrs. Johnny Tompkins, San Marcos; his mother, Mrs. Clara Baker of Borger; and six grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Sunday, March 15, 1970)
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West Virginia, Births Index, 1804-1938
Name: Rex Rogers Baker
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1913
Birth Place: Tyler, West Virginia, United States
Birth County: Tyler
FHL Film Number: 850571
Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: Rex Roger Baker
Age: 25
Birth Date: abt 1913
Marriage Date: 12 Nov 1938
Marriage Place: Jackson, Independence, Missouri
Registration Place: Jackson, Missouri, USA
Spouse: Lilliana Bjorkman
Spouse Age: 19
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Rex Baker
Death Date: 14 Mar 1970
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Rex Rogers Baker
Birth Date: 15 Apr 1913
Birth Place: West Virginia
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Samuel L Baker
Mother: Clara White
Age at Death: 56
Death Date: 14 Mar 1970
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Contributed on 5/7/21
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