From Sharon Gill Vanden Bossche

South Bend Tribune

April 24, 1978

Fannie Idella Baker

Fannie Idella Baker, 66, of 813 Hubbard St., died at 11 pm. Sunday in St. Joseph Hospital after a two-month illness. She had been admitted to the hospital two hours earlier. Mrs. Baker was born on July 23, 1911, in Continental, Ohio, and lived in Mishawaka most of her life, coming here from Columbia City IN. She retired in 1972 from Rubin Dry Cleaners, where she had worked for 25 years. On Feb. 9, 1945, in Mishawaka, as Fannie I. Soule, she married Floyd Leon Baker, who survives with two sons, Richard Howard Soule of Breman, and Wayne Russell Soule of Mishawaka; two daughters, Mrs Ralph (Harriet Soule) Gill jr. of Mishawaka and Mrs. William (Beverly Soule) Stewart of South Bend; Two step sons, Byron Baker of Lake Station, IN, and Leon Baker of Mishawaka; six step-daughters, Mrs Margaret Blackburn, Mrs. Harry Landis, Mrs. Curtis Massey and Mrs Evangeline Roderick, all of Hartford City, Mrs Pat Tayler of Elkhart and Mrs. Delores Buck of Lake Station; 31 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren; a brother Harold Eugene Colvin of Mishawaka and a half sister, Mrs. Eva Schmidt of Pompano Beach, FL. Friends may call in the Bubb Funeral Chapel from 2 to 9 pm Tuesday. Mrs Baker was a member of South Bend's Central United Methodist Church; a past president of the church's Missionary Club; a member of the Women of the Moose Chapter 98, and past president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and Dry Cleaners.