Submitted by: Dan Rich
Lester Baker
May 14, 1912 - Sept. 3, 1994
South Bend Tribune 9/6/1994
SOUTH BEND - Lester Baker, 82, of
Palisades Avenue, died at 6:45 p.m. Saturday in Michiana
Community Hospital after an illness. Mr. Baker retired from the
University of Notre Dame as a machinist in the Germ-Free
Laboratory. He was born May 14, 1912, in South Bend and was a
lifelong area resident.
He is survived by three nieces, Mary Haslett
and Joan Cunningham, both of South Bend, and Catherine Minegar
of Osceola; a nephew, Raymond Baker of Hernando, Fla.; 11
great-nieces and nephews; and 16 great-great-nieces and nephews.
There will be no services. Cremation will take place, with burial in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park, Granger. Welsheimer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.