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| Baker, Frank D. 263984 |
| Birth: 03/02/1933 Death: 03/24/2014 Marriage: 08/13/1955 |
| Cemetery: See Notes |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/16/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, March 26, 2015: "Frank D. Baker, 82 of Paris, passed away Tuesday, March 24, 2014, at Paris Regional Medical Center. Bright-Holland Funeral Home has scheduled services for 10 a.m. on Friday, March 27, at Springlake Baptist Church with Rev. Herb Bullock officiating. Burial, with military honors, will follow at 4 p.m. at Lake Chapel Cemetery in Fairfield. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home. Mr. Baker, the son of John Slater and Mollie Mae Willard Baker, was born March 2, 1933, in Fairfield. He served in the U. S. Air Force from Aug. 22, 1950 – Aug. 21, 1954, during the Korean Conflict. He was in Strategic Air Command and was a Radar Tech on a bomber. He graduated, with honors, from Sam Houston State University with degrees in mathematics and physics. His career in mid-management with Texas Instruments spanned thirty-eight years. During those years he worked in engineering, sales, and planning with the last years in research and as training manager for DMOS5, which produced the first 256K silicon memory chip. Frank was a member of Springlake Baptist Church where he taught the Elder Men’s Sunday School Class. He was an amateur Biblical Historian and for forty years has taught at churches in Plano, Lubbock, Wimberley, Wylie and Paris. While living in Plano he was active in Civitan and had served as president of that organization. Survivors include his wife, Sue Craig Baker, whom he married on Aug. 13, 1955, building almost sixty years of family and memories; two children, Alisa Swayze and husband Ken of Wylie and Les Baker and wife Carmen of Mulberry, Arkansas; a grandson, Shea Baker and wife Abby of Cherokee Village, Arkansas; nephews, Michael, Patrick, and Craig Barry, Dobie G. Craig, Lance Craig and Jake Barry; nieces, Kay Lynn Culp, Valarie Busby, Maureen Henderson and Emily Barry. Honorary bearers will be members of the Men’s Sunday School Class at Springlake Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Springlake Baptist Church, 3500 Clarksville St., Paris, TX 75460, in Frank’s memory. To leave a message or tribute for the family please visit www.brighthollandfuneralhome.com." |
| War Notes Rank Korean War |