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Shirley
Baker
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[April
09, 2008]
MOUNT
PULASKI -- Shirley Jean Baker, 69, of Mount
Pulaski, died Monday, April 7, 2008, at 9:08
p.m. at St. John's Hospital in Springfield.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday
at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount
Pulaski.
Her funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at
Mount Pulaski Zion Lutheran Church, with the
Rev. Mark Drews officiating. |
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Burial will be in Union Cemetery, Lincoln.
Mrs. Baker worked in sales at Stahl's Furniture
of Mount Pulaski and Wal-Mart in Springfield.
She was born Jan. 8, 1939, in Lincoln to
Ralph and Inez Menzel Broughton. She married
Russell D. Baker in Mount Pulaski on Nov. 19,
1979.
She is survived by her husband, of Puyallup,
Wash.; her mother, Inez Broughton of Naperville;
three daughters, Kathleen (and Tom) Bruce of
Lincoln, Elizabeth (and Ken) Bertram of
Naperville and Ellen Claypool of Pleasant
Plains; three sons, Gene (and Deborah) Schoth of
Mount Pulaski, Shawn Baker of Riverton and
Nicholas Baker of Springfield; eight
grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father. |
She was a member of Mount Pulaski Zion
Lutheran Church and the American Business
Woman's Association.
Memorials may be made to Shriners Hospitals.
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