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Luella Mae Davis Baker
© Enid News and Eagle
01-17-2008
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

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Luella Mae and Ralph Joseph BARKER

Enid Cemetery


The funeral for Luella Mae (Davis) Baker will be 2 p.m. today at Central Christian Church. Rev. John McLemore will officiate. Burial will be in Enid Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.

Luella was born to Albert H. and Ida Mae Guernsey Davis on July 3, 1923, in Pond Creek, OK and died Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008, at 5:20 p.m. at her home at Trinity PlaceAssisted Living in Enid.

After graduating from high school in Pond Creek as valedictorian, she attended and graduated from Enid Business College. Upon graduation, she worked as church secretary at Central Christian Church.

She married Ralph J. Baker April 14, 1946, in Enid, after he returned from World War II. He passed away May 14, 2006. She had been introduced to him by his sister, Mary Ruth (Baker) Cooper. After a career in farming, they retired and moved back to Enid. They enjoyed 60 years of marriage.

She was proud to have been a charter member of the Sooner Sunday school class at Central Christian Church where she served in several officer positions, including president. She was selected as Mother of the Year of the church in 2003. She enjoyed being a member of the Bethany Extension Club until health problems prohibited her from attending. What made her most proud were her children and grandchildren.

Besides her husband, Ralph, she was preceded in death by both of her parents, her sister, Dorothy Walters, and stepgranddaughter, Lisa VonWerder.

She is survived by her children, Danny Baker and his wife Suzi, Lindy Baker and his wife Connie, Connie Jo Collins and her husband Rick, all of Enid, and Steve Baker and his wife Kathi of Ponca City; seven grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; five great-grandchildren; nine stepgreat-grandchildren; and two stepgreat-great-grandchildren. She also is survived by her sisters-in-law, Mary Ruth Cooper and Vera Sue Bunch and her husband Frank, both of Enid.



Ralph Joseph BAKER
Enid, Garfield Co., OK
May, 18, 2006
Submitted by: Jo AGUIRRE


OBITUARY
Funeral services for Ralph Joseph Baker, 86, will be 2 p.m. today at Central Christian Church. The Rev. John McLemore will officiate. Burial will be in Enid Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.
Ralph was born to Ernest Ralph Baker and Violette Etta (Jacobs) Baker on Sept. 14, 1919, at home on the family farm southwest of Enid, where Vance Air Force Base is now located, and died at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center on Sunday, May 14, 2006, after a period of ill health. After graduating from Enid High School in 1936 at the age of 16, Ralph attended Phillips University for two years and then farmed before being drafted into the Army. He was transferred to the Enid Army Air Base for his basic training, and several news articles around the country reported that "Cadet learns to fly in his own back yard," since the base now stood on his dad's former farm. He served in the Army Air Corps as a pilot and first lieutenant and flew 70 dangerous missions over "The Hump," in the China-Burma-India Theater over 17 months, having to bail out once over China. While there, he received several important commendations, including the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Distinguished Flying Cross, also with one Oak Leaf Cluster. After his overseas service, he was transferred back to the states to complete his service. Upon returning home, his sisters and mother introduced him to the church secretary, Luella Mae Davis. After a brief courtship, they married in Central Christian Church on April 14, 1946. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary just last month.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Luella; his children Danny Baker and Suzi Powell, Lindy Baker and his wife Connie, Connie Jo Collins and her husband Rick, all of Enid, and Steven Baker and his wife Kathi of Ponca City; and two sisters, Mary Ruth Cooper and Vera Sue Bunch and her husband Frank of Enid; nine grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, two infant brothers, Laverne and Duane, and two sisters, Zella Fairleigh and Ernestine Malden.


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