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Dorothy N. Bailey  Photo courtesy of Heather Serrill Janise |
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Funeral services for Bennie Baines, 92, of Matagorda will be held 11 a. m. Thursday at St. Peter’s Baptist Church of Matagorda with the Rev. E. Byers officiating. Burial will be in Matagorda Cemetery. Visitation will be until 9 p. m. today at Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home and from 10 to 11 a. m. Thursday at the church. Mr. Baines was born Feb. 23, 1896, in Matagorda to John and Frances Suggs Baines and died 4:40 a. m. July 11, 1988, at Twelve Oaks Hospital, Houston. He was a 30-year laborer at Matagorda Shell Co. and a veteran of World War I. He was a member of the Methodist church. Survivors include a son, Hasley Baines of Matagorda; a sister, Lena Mae Robbins and a brother-in-law, Jeff Robbins of Matagorda; and several nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends. Pallbearers include Hasley Baines, Frank Delbert Baines, Gene Gartica, Brent Warren, Eric Warren, Raymond Warren and Elijah Mackey Jr. Arrangements are with Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home, Bay City. Daily Tribune, July 13, 1988
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Funeral services for Frank D. Baines, Jr., 65, of Matagorda, are scheduled for 11 a. m. Saturday at St. Peter’s Baptist Church in Matagorda with the Rev. Isaiah Gartica officiating. Burial will follow in Matagorda Cemetery in Matagorda. Visitation will be until 9 p. m. today at Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home chapel in Bay City. Mr. Baines was born Jan. 20, 1929, in Matagorda to Frank D. And Estella George Baines Sr. and died May 29, 1994, in Matagorda General Hospital in Bay City. He was a member of the Methodist church and a veteran of World War II. Survivors include an aunt, Lena Robbins of Matagorda; a step-sister, Merry G. Luke of Bay City; a play sister, Joy Lee of Matagorda; a play nephew, Montie Lee of Matagorda and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, Estella George Baines and Frank Baines Sr. Pallbearers are Samuel Lee, Walter Lee, Montie Lee, Joe L. Barnes, Jimmy Woods. George Holt Jr., Ireno Trevino and Ricky Bryant. Honorary pallbearers are George Holt and members of the American Legion. Arrangements are with Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home of Bay City. Daily Tribune, June 3, 1994
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John Baines Mary Francis Baines  Photo courtesy of Heather Serrill Janise |
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Raleigh Baines  Photo courtesy of Heather Serrill Janise |
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Mr. Charles Bryan Baker, formerly band instructor in the Bay City school system, died in a Houston Hospital this morning at 8 o’clock from cancer. He was 39 years of age. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Evelyn McNabb Baker, one son, Charles Baker, of Houston; his mother, Mrs. Nora Reed Baker of Austin; one sister, Mrs. C. B. Weller of San Antonio and one brother, Reed Baker of Austin. Funeral services will be held at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon from the Settegast-Kopf Funeral Home in Houston at Milam and Gray. The grave side services will be at the Matagorda Cemetery Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 with Taylor Bros. Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Rev. Herman T. Morgan of the First Methodist Church of Orange and Rev. Wm. M. Harris of the Bethany Methodist Church of Houston will officiate. The family requests that any remembrance be in the form of donation to the Anderson Cancer Foundation of Houston. The family wishes no flowers.
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Mr. Calvin E. Baker, 52, died at the Matagorda General Hospital this morning at 4:30, following a very short illness. Mr. Baker, an employee of the Matagorda Shell Co., was a life long resident of Matagorda county. He was born in Matagorda and has lived in Matagorda and Bay City most of his relatively short life. Affable and easy going Calvin Baker endeared himself to many friends and although he leaves little in the way of material goods he leaves heartfelt remembrances in the hearts of those friends a blessing which makes a man rich in his mortal or immortal sphere. Funeral services will be Wednesday afternoon at 3 from the Taylor Bros. Funeral Home. Interment will be in Matagorda cemetery, with Rev. Jack Lancaster and Rev. Harvey Matney officiating. He was a member of the Methodist Church and the Masonic Lodge. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Etta Mae Baker of Bay City and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Baker of Matagorda. Active pallbearers will be F. J. Balusek, W. O. Watson, Rugeley Serrill, Austin Lee, W. W. Rugeley, Oscar Moberley. Honorary pallbearers are Albert Nolte, Buster Salter, Bob Parker, Sr., Bob Parker, Jr., Arthur Stewart, G. C. Ryman, J. W. Gartrell, Lamar Holloman and John Cherry. Daily Tribune, March 3, 1953
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Cullen Baker, 64, of Matagorda died Sunday at Matagorda General Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Mary Katherine Baker of Matagorda; son, William B. Baker of Matagorda; daughters, Mrs. Rhonda Griffin of Houston, and Penny Baker of Matagorda; sisters, Mrs. Katherin Hansen and Mrs. Mary Chastin of McAllen; and three grandchildren. Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a. m. at the Bay City Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be at Matagorda Cemetery with Simon DeSoto, Foster DeSoto, Jr., Jay Inman, Kenneth Hauff, Sr., John Holt and Rick Davis serving as pallbearers. Services under the direction of Dick R. Elkins Bay City Funeral Home. Daily Tribune, December 19, 1977
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Funeral Services Are Held Thursday For Mrs. Bessie Baker, 77 Funeral services were held Thursday for Mrs. Bessie Baker, 77, at the Methodist Church in Matagorda. The Rev. George Olson officiated. Burial followed in Matagorda. Mrs. Baker is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Amos Lee, Bay City; Mrs. Lou Ellis, Matagorda; Mrs. W. E. McNabb, Matagorda, and Mrs. Lydia Moberley, Matagorda. Also surviving is a brother, Collins Baxter of Matagorda. Mrs. Baker’s husband preceded her in death a short time ago. Taylor Brother Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
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Mary Ann Baker, 62, of Matagorda, passed away June 22, 2017 in Bay City. She was born March 29, 1955 in Conroe, TX to Kenneth and Rita Loyd Bass. Mary is preceded in death by her parents; husband William B. “Dusty” Baker; brother Kenneth Bass, and grandson Dylan Williams. She is survived by daughter Bonnie Williams and husband Keith of Bay City; sons William Scott Baker of Matagorda, and Robert Baker and wife Marla of Hill City, KS; brothers Samuel Bass, John Bass and Till Bass, and grandchildren Kyle Williams, Joseph Baker and Timmy Baker. Services will be held 2:00 pm Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at Matagorda Cemetery.
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During the morning of Saturday, Sept. 13, at Hermann Hospital, in Houston, Texas, Mrs. Mary Baker, wife of Chas. F. Baker, departed this life, following several months of illness. Some 72 years ago, was Mary Louise Gottschalk born in Matagorda, Texas, the daughter of Conrad and Frona Gottschalk. There was spent her childhood, there she grew to young womanhood, there she met and wedded Capt. Chas. F. Baker, there they established and maintained their first home until coming to Bay City and there it was their family of splendid sons and daughters were born. With the removal of the county seat from Matagorda to the newly established Bay City, they came, building and opening the Baker Hotel. There, due to Mrs. Baker’s management, presence and personality, maintained the most ideal family hotel life Bay City has ever known. After some years, growing wearied with the cares of public life and out of consideration for Mrs. Baker’s health, the family retired to private life in their present home on West Sixth Street, where let it be said Mrs. Baker spent ten very happy years—happy in that she daily shared her home with her friends and the friends of her husband and her children. If, as the poet has said “It takes a heap o’livin’ to make a home,” then hers was a real home. To see others happy meant happiness in the fullest meaning to Mrs. Baker, or “Mother” Baker as she has long been familiarly called by many. While Mrs. Baker lived to pass the three score and ten allotted, having always sympathy for, care of and interested in the elderly, sick of distressed, her heart and life were ever with the younger generations. It was to and through these that she gave always the brightest and best expression of herself—a marvelous woman—ever cheerful disposition—a loyal wife and homemaker—a devoted mother—a friend to every one and warmly loved by all who knew her—a Christian. To all who mourn the passing of this good woman, may they emulate her example, may they be often reminded of her beautiful faith, her true and deep spirituality as reflected in her daily life and contacts, as one who believed in God the Father, one who practiced the things she taught, one who “had her house in order” awaiting the summons, and yet, still for the sake of those who were so dear and near to her, made a brave fight to overcome physical illness, knowing full well the battle was lost and cheerfully welcoming the call without a shadow of fear, gloom or sorrow. Entombed in a veritable garden of beautiful flowers, services for Mrs. Baker were read on Monday morning at 10 o’clock by the Rev. Paul Engle from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Bay City. Interment in the family plot in the Matagorda cemetery. Surviving Mrs. Baker are her husband, Mr. Chas. F. Baker; her children, Mr. Ed. C. Baker of Matagorda; Mrs. J. Raymond Cookenboo of Houston; Mr. Louis Amiel Baker, Mr. Warren Baker and Mr. Sherman D. Baker, all of Tampico, Mexico, and Mrs. E. C. Plant of Dallas; a brother and sister, Mr. Gus Gottschalk and Mrs. Fannie Savage of Matagorda and a sister, Mrs. W. R. Franz of Bay City; three grandchildren; Calvin Baker of Matagorda and Sherman D. Baker, Jr., and Beverly Bell Baker of Tampico, with a number of nieces and nephews and a host of friends. As in life her children were her first consideration, so in death they stood close by to tender the last possible service, as active pallbearers, Ed. C. Baker, Louis Amiel Baker, Warren Baker, Sherman D. Baker, J. Raymond Cookenboo and Earnest C. Plant. Honorary pallbearers: W. E. McNabb, Matagorda; John Land, Houston; Roland Rugeley, Dr. Morton, Ed Harris, Jack Walker, R. J. Sisk, Geo. E. Serrill, J. P. Keller, J. C. Sisk, Fred Fields, E. H. Highley, all of Bay City. Daily Tribune, September 1930 Charles F. Baker
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Matagorda, Texas, November 27—Mrs. Mollie F. Baker, aged seventy-three years, died Sunday morning at 2 o’clock in her home at this place after a brief illness, the physicians in attendance never fully determined the nature of her malady. Funeral services were conducted by the Episcopal minister, Rev. Joseph Carden, of which church she was a member, at 3 o’clock that afternoon in the presence of a goodly number of her life long friends of this town. The casket containing the remains was taken to the Matagorda cemetery and the weary body laid to rest beside those of her son and her mother. When all was over the newly made grave was concealed by a snowy covering of chrysanthemums and evergreens. Very little…this estimable woman than that her life was one of unutterable sorrow and sadness. She lost her husband—Dr. Baker, by death in her early married life, leaving her a son who died by his own hand after achieving maturity. From that time, twenty-one years ago, she has lived a very retired life seeming to care nothing for the things of the world but brooding over her sorrows which naturally impaired her health and for many years she has been comparatively an invalid. As she has run her race of three score years and ten, her very few remaining relatives should not grieve, but rejoice rather, that she is relieved from the burdens of this life and is now happy with her newest and dearest in the glory world, for has not the Saviour of men said: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” Matt. 11:28
Matagorda County Tribune, December 4,1914 |
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