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- Mattie Baker, 88, resident of Golden Rule Nursing Center, died there Monday, Jan. 30, after a long illness.
She was born Oct. 17., 1906 in Livingston, Ky., to John and Margaret Jane Goins Parks and had lived in Richmond most of her life.
She was the former co-owner of Middleboro Lakes, with her husband, Charles, who died in 1960.
Survivors include several grandchildren, including Charles Denver Johnson of Illinois, whom she raised; several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, one brother, William "Bill" Parks of Palmer, Alaska; one sister, Jean Mulvbaney of Cincinnati; nieces and nephews. Three sons, Edward, Donald and Kenneth Baker and a daughter, Geneva Johnson, are deceased.
Service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb 2., at Stegall-Berheide-Orr Funeral Home. Burial will be in Earlham Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, at the funeral home.
(Richmond Palladium-Item, Tuesday, 31 Jan 1995)
[Cemetery records have DOB of 10/16/1906, contradicting the obituary. Until I have a "tie-breaker", I'll leave it that way.)
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