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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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