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Submitted: 10/3/21 • Approved: 10/3/21 • Last Updated: 10/6/21 • R460881-G0-S3
1922-1934
Please see Baker Family Marker
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WHEELER, Dec. 6 (AP) - A strange malady that has claimed seven members of the A.J. Baker family in the last month today threatened to take one, and possibly three, of the four remaining members.
Funeral services were conducted here Wednesday for the last three victims to die.
Hoyt Baker, son of A.J. Baker, was the first to be afflicted, but is still alive. His wife, two sons, a daughter, two brothers and a sister have died.
One son, Teddy, 3, a brother, Guy Noel, 8, and the sister, Corine, 17, died Tuesday. They were buried late yesterday. Teddy died during his mother's funeral.
Mrs. Hoyt Baker died Monday night. She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, who died November 3, and a son, Daniel Wayne, 4, who died Sunday. Melton Baker, 14, son of A.J. Baker died Friday.
Physicians said the disease was serebro spinal influenza, a form of meningitis which affects the spine and brain. They said it differed from regular spinal meningitis in that the infection was caused by influenza.
The Baker cases were the first of the disease to be reported in Wheeler County.
A.J. Baker, Hoyt Baker, and Hoyt's son, Thalman, 12, remained in a serious condition. Physicians held slight hope for the recovery of Thalman. Mrs. A. Bentley of Canadian, daughter of A.J. Baker, was the only member of the family not affected by the disease.
The Baker home is on a farm one and a half miles northeast of Wheeler.
(Published in Amarillo Globe Times, December 6, 1934)
Contributed on 10/3/21
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