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Submitted: 4/15/10 • Approved: 4/15/10 • Last Updated: 6/27/23 • R310027-G310027-S3
Thomas 26 Aug 1904-2 Aug 1978
Mr. Thomas Boyce Baker, 73, of Wilmar, died August 2, 1978 at his home in Wilmar.
Mr. Baker was born August 26, 1904 in Bradley County, a son of James Thomas Baker and Nannie Zuella Milholland Baker. He was a retired flooring plant foreman for Partee Flooring Company at Magnolia, Arkansas and a member of the First Assembly of God Church at Warren.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edna Mae Upshaw Baker; a son, Boyce W. Baker of Virginia Beach, Va.; two daughters, Mrs. Roger Tucker of Kingwood, Texas and Mrs. H. L. Childrey of Pine Bluff; three sisters, Mrs. Prather O'Neal of Warren, Mrs. Alex Cooper of Stow, Ohio and Mrs. Cone Kinard of Warren; and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Friday at the First Assembly of God Church by Rev. David Wiggins. Burial was in Ebenezer Cemetery by Frazer Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Earl Rawls, Doyle Gill, Vance Ozment, W. T. Outlaw, Donnie Hollingsworth, Dewey Rodgers, Otis Gill and Artie Savage. -- from the Eagle Democrat, Warren, AR
Triple Marker with Edna Mae Upshaw Baker and Lucy Cornelia Wherry Baker
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Parents:
James Thomas Baker (1873 - 1941)
Nannie Zuella Milholland Baker (1877 - 1964)
Children:
Infant Boy Baker (1930 - 1930)
Boyce Walton Baker (1934 - 2008)
Vada Beatrice Baker Million (1937 - 1999)
Spouses:
Lucy Cornelia Wherry Baker (1907 - 1930)
Edna Mae Upshaw Baker (1910 - 1981)
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Contributed on 4/15/10 by tootied
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