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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025)

THE PARIS NEWS, Tuesday, May 1, 1956, p. 6: “Baker Services. The funeral of Mrs. D. H. Baker, 75, will be conducted Wednesday at 10 a. m. at Fry-Gibbs chapel by the Rev. Robert Richardson of Central Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Baker was a member. Burial will be made in Evergreen Cemetery, pallbearers to be Grady Fry, Gus Baize, James Allen Hickman, Frank Underwood, George Henderson and Chester S. Terrell. Mrs. Baker, widow of a longtime Paris furniture dealer, died Monday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Neil Bozeman, 238-10th SE where she lived. The former Miss Cora Smith daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Marshall T. Smith, Mrs. Baker was born in Fort Smith, Ark., August 23, 1879. Surviving are three daughters: Mrs. Bozeman here; Mrs. C. H. Dorman, Houston, and Mrs. W. L. Cobb, Dallas; five grandchildren, one great-grandchild; a sister, Mrs. W. F. Sheppard, Paris; and two brothers, Grover Smith, San Antonio, and E. H. Smith, Long Beach, Calif.

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Cora Baker
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 30 Apr 1956
Event Place: , Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 76
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 23 Aug 1879
Birth Year (Estimated): 1880
Birthplace: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Father’s Name: Marshall E Smith
Mother’s Name: Mary Moore
Digital Folder Number: 005145250
Record Number: 32017
GS Film Number: 2114766
Digital Folder Number: 005145250
Image Number: 01324
Citing this Record
“Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3QN-R95 : 13 March 2018), Mary Moore in entry for Cora Baker, 30 Apr 1956; citing certificate number 32017, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,114,766.

Married Dudley H. Baker.