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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. |
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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