Obit: Baker, Martha #3 (1897 - 1961)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Baker, Schuette, Hardrath, Nelson, Fischer, Sheldon

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 07/20/1961

Baker, Martha #3 (18 MAY 1897 - 18 JUL 1961)

Funeral services will be held Friday, July 21, at 2:00 o’clock from the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home for Mrs. William Baker.  The deceased passed away July 18, 1961 at a hospital here, with death being attributed to complications of old age.  Burial will be made in the family plot in the Town of Beaver Cemetery.  Serving as pallbearers will be Alden, Harley and Harold Hardrath, Roscoe Alexander, Stanley Stevens and Glenn Fischer.

Born May 18, 1897 in the Town of Green Grove (Clark Co., Wis.), she was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hardrath.  She had been a lifelong resident of the towns of Green Grove and Beaver up until 1959 when she retired to Owen.

In October 1915 she was united in marriage to the late Arthur Schuette who preceded her in death, passing away in 1941.  On Sept. 6, 1949, she married William Baker in a ceremony performed at Abbotsford.

Today her passing is mourned by her husband, William Baker; two sisters, Mrs. Clara Nelson, Loyal, and Mrs. Elwood (Esther) Fischer, Owen; three brothers, Herman and Louis Hardrath, both of route 1, Owen, and Albert Hardrath of route 1, Loyal; and three step-children, Charles Baker, Clinton, Maryland, Harry Baker, Lynbrook, N.Y., and Mrs. Eleanor Sheldon, Lynbrook, N.Y.