The Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 10, 1935
MRS. MATILDA BAKER
Services for Mrs. Matilda Baker, 77 years old, 609 Northeast Sixth street. will be conducted by Rev. Elmer Ridgeway at 10 am Saturday from the Hahn funeral chapel.
Burial will be In Fairlawn cemetery. Mrs. Baker, city resident for 36 years. died Thursday at her home following a prolonged illness.
Matilda Baker
1858 - 8 Aug 1935
Burial Fairlawn Cemetery
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
Died Aug. 8 at her home at 609
NE 6th Street; resident of OKC for 36 years, having previously lived in
Missouri; survived by husband, H. S. Baker and a sister, Mrs. B. M. Bittle, both
of OKC
Henry S. Baker
1852 - 9 Nov 1940
Burial Fairlawn Cemetery
November 11,
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Services Are Set For Henry S. Baker
Retired Officer
Worked For City, County
Services for Henry S. Baker, 88-year-old retired city
policeman, who died Saturday night at his home, 609 Northeast Sixth street, will
be at 2 p. m. Monday in the Perrine funeral home. Burial will be in Fairlawn
cemetery.
Baker, who served on the city police force from 1900 to 1921
and was county jailer from 1921 to 1923 and from 1923 to 1929, had been ill for
over a year. The immediate cause of his death was peritonitis.
Born in
Missouri, Baker was a guard in the Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson City and
sheriff of Barton county, Mo., before coming to Oklahoma City in 1899.