Pearl Janet Crawford Baker

Pearl Baker JEFFERSON, Iowa #45;- Pearl Janet Crawford Baker, 95, of Jefferson, died Thursday, April 27, 2000. Services were today at the First United Methodist Church in Jefferson. The Rev. Judy Miller officiated. Pallbearers were Jim North, Dr. Merton Hawk, Roger Olhausen, Dr. Robert Burke, Brian Wright, and Dr. Eugene Houk. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. George Canady, Les Siglin, Dr. Lawrence L. Marshall, Francis Tasler, Russell Holt. Mrs. Baker was born July 13, 1904, in Lone Tree, the daughter of Thomas A. Crawford and Jo Anna Cone Crawford. She married Dr. Edwin G. Baker on June 29, 1928, in Rockwell City. The couple moved to Jefferson that year and started a dental practice. She was active in her husband practice, going into homes since Jefferson didn't have a hospital. She was a Red Cross nurse and taught home nursing to five different schools in the county. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She was past matron and life member of the Order Of The Eastern Star and past president and honorary member of Friday Literary Club. She was a leader of the Girls Camp Fire for many years. She was the first in the county to work for the Americ...[more]

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Cancer Society and worked on the blood mobile in Jefferson. She was a life member of the University of Iowa Alumni Association. Survivors include her son, Dr. Bruce Baker and his wife, Marsha of Sun City, Ariz.; a son-in-law, Eddie Coover and his wife, Nancy, of Longmont, Colo.; a sister, Blanche Lewis of Muscatine; four grandchildren, Lisa Coover Otto and her husband, Darrel, Todd Coover and his wife, Angeli, Kirk Baker and his wife, Mika, and Pam Johnson and her husband, Dave; six great-grandchildren, Hannah and Drew Otto, Kari and Jamie Coover, Ashley Johnson and Angela Baker; and other family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1987; a daughter, Nancy in 1974; four sisters; and three brothers.