Baker.Ruby.Brown.1975.Union.OBIT

Ruby Brown Baker obit, from unnamed newspaper, most like the Advocate of
Union County, KY. Photocopy sent to me by David Heady.

Mother of late Supt. L. Baker buried Monday

Mrs. Robert L. (Ruby Brown) Baker, 78 , of Pride, died at 5am Saturday 
at Union County Hospital where she had been a patient for the past 10 
days. She had been in and out of the hospital several times during the 
past year. She was a victim of leukemia, and sustained a broken him and
broken arm in a recent fall at the hospital. She was the mother of the 
late Lewis Baker, superintendent of Union County Schools.

Mrs. Baker, a long time member of Bordley Church of Christ, was the 
daughter of the late James V. Brown and Roxie Owen Brown, and was born 
and reared in Webster County near Dixon.

Surviving are her husband, Robert L. Baker of Pride; a daughter, Mrs. 
Ruby Jean Heady of near Pride; three sons, Willie of Techumseh, Mich; 
Luther of Allen Park, Mich; and Robert of Brighton, Mich; six sisters,
Mrs. Lila Lynn of Dixon; Mrs. Millie Tubbs of Kansas City, MO; Mrs. 
Virginia Yocum of Zebellia, TX; Mrs. Rosa Shaffer of Campbell, Mo; Mrs. 
May Lynn of Flint, Mich; and Mrs. Florence Chesterof Paragould, Ark; two
brothers, Laban Brown of Paragould, Ark., and James Brown of Jonesboro, 
Ark; 16 grandchildren, and 17 great grandchildren. 

The body was taken from Edwards Funeral Home in Clay to Bordley Church 
of Christ for final rites at 11am Monday with Sam Belo, pastor in 
charge. Burial was in Clay, Odd Fellows Cemetery.

(Personal note- Ruby Brown Baker died Nov. 1, 1975, her mother was Roxie 
Owens, daughter of Mathew Henry Owens and Nancy Jane Tripp)

Contributed by Maria & Tim Troutman <troutman@snoopy.bunt.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1997