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Subject: obit result - BAKER - Kern Co
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 22:52:23 EDT

Here is the obit you requested for the following person:

Robert Lee Baker
DOB: 4/6/1920 Bald Knob, Ark
DOD: 1/30/1960 Auto Accident at Stockdale Hwy & Buena Vista Rd., Bakersfield,
California
Buried: 2/3/1960 Union Cemetery Bakersfield CA
Survived By wife Josephine Baker
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Bakersfield Californian, Tuesday, February 2, 1960
Pg. 31
BAKER, Robert L. - Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 10
a.m. at the Hopson Mortuary Chapel of Robert L. Baker, 39, McFarland, who died
Jan. 30 at a Bakersfield hospital. The Rev. S. V. Grissom will officiate. Mr.
Baker was a native of Arkansas and had resided in this community the past 15
years. He was a veteran of World War II. Survivors include his widow,
Josephine of Bakersfield; two sons, Skipper and Chris of Bakersfield; five daughters,
Tana, Lana, Pamela of Bakersfield, Barbara Ann Sly of Williamson and Georgia
Baker of Shafter; parents Mr. and Mrs. Gar Baker of Bakersfield; brother,
George Baker of Bakersfield; three sisters, Opal of Arkansas, Clara Rogers of
Bakersfield and Mary Jo Willingham of Eugene, Ore. Internment will be in the
veterans plot at Union Cemetery. The Hopson Mortuary is in charge.


Sharon
Kern Co Volunteer

Checking backards in the paper...
Bakersfield Californian, Monday, February 1, 1960
Pg. 17
Girl, Man Killed in Accidents
The month of January closed with two traffic deaths in rural
Bakersfield to bring the county's traffic toll to nine dead for the 31-day
period. This compares with 10 dead in January of 1959, the California Highway
Patrol reports.
The two latest fatalities occurred Saturday evening. The victims were
Laura Dominguez, 18, 900 South Baker St., a pedestrian struck by a westbound
pickup truck on Panama Road, and Robert Lee Baker, 39, McFarland ranch foreman,
thrown to his death when his eastbound pickup collided with a sedan on
Stockdale Highway near Buena Vista Road.

----did not transcribe next three paragraphs regarding Miss Dominguez
death-------

Baker was driving east on Stockdale Highway at 8:10 p.m. with three
passengers in the front seat of his 1959 half-ton pickup truck. They were Lydia
Hampton, 41, Mettler Farms, Shafter; Owen W. Lancaster, 14, 2323 Roberts Lane;
and Daniel Schrimscher, 13, 6620 Lowry St.
At a curve in the highway, the pickup sideswiped a westbound 1953
sedan, operated by Ben Gholston, 57, 1220 McNew Court. The impact caused Baker and
Mrs. Hampton to be thrown from the truck, which overturned, Patrolman C. B.
Davidson reported.
Baker was pronounced dead on arrival at Kern General Hospital. Also
taken to the county hospital by Garges Ambulance were Mrs. Hampton, who was
released after treatment, and the two teen-aged boys, examined and found to have
no apparent injuries. The body of Baker was taken to the Hopson Mortuary.
Gholston told Davidson he was driving west at 20 miles an hour as he
entered the sharp curve. The truck, he said, was coming towards him in the
westbound lane, Gholston steered his car as far to the right of the highway as he
could, attempting to avoid a head-on collision, the CHP report reads.



Sharon
Kern Co Volunteer

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