Fannie May (Parsons)& Donal Phillip "Don" Baker
Tombstone Photo
Silent Home Cemetery
Roll, Roger Mills County, OK

© Karen Harman

Donald P. Baker

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Donald P. Baker was born August 9, 1894 in Page, Nebraska to Sara Francis and Henry W. Baker and passed away December 20, 1992 in the Hemphill County Hospital of Canadian, Texas at the age of 98 years, 4 months and 11 days.

Don was one of ten children born to this pioneer family. The family left Nebraska and came to the Oklahoma Territory in the fall of 1900 in a covered wagon when Don was 6 years old.

He spent his early years helping on the family farm along with his brothers and sisters.

When he was a teenager he hired out as a ranch hand on the Trammell Ranch.

When he was 19 years old he went on a picnic in the Durham community and it was there that he met his wife to be, Frannie Mae Parsons. They were married September 5, 1915 in Durham.

Their first home was a farm between Midway and Durham and they moved in 1920 to Midway, Oklahoma where he worked in a grocery store, was assistant postmaster, and was a barber in his off hours. He worked and lived there for five years.

In 1927 he leased a farm near the Texas-Oklahoma line and lived there for a year.

In 1928 he brought three quarters of land southwest of Durham and he remained there until 1944 when he sold his farm and moved to Durham where he entered the trucking and cattle trading business which he continued until his retirement.

Don was a member of Durham Church of Christ.

He was preceded in death by parents; his wife and two sons; Guy Pride and Henry Wilburn; five brothers; three sisters and three grandchildren, Patsy Dale Davis, Mary Jolene Baker and James Henry Baker.

Services were at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 22, 1992 at the Durham Community Building officiated by Donald Parsons.

Interment will be in the Silent Home Cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service.

Survivors include his wife, Ruby of Reydon, Oklahoma; two sons, Dale P. Baker of Elk City, Oklahoma; Eddie Baker of Beaver, Oklahoma; one sister, Mary Lane of DeSoto, Kansas; eleven grandchildren; thirty great grandchildren; and fourteen great great grandchildren.