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Edwin Baker March 16, 1922 - April 05, 2005 Poteau, OK
Funeral Service: 2:00 PM April 08, 2005 at Grace Manor Memorial
Chapel,
Poteau, OK Interment: April 08, 2005 at Oakland Cemetery,
Poteau, OK
Edwin "Buddy" Baker, 83, of Poteau, Oklahoma, passed
away at St. Edward Mercy Medical Center, in Fort Smith,
Arkansas, on
Tuesday, April 5, 2005. Buddy was born on March 16, 1922, in
Poteau to
Murray and Ethel (England) Baker. Buddy worked as a delivery man
for Acee
Milk Company for many years and was a musician. He played the
steel guitar
for Oscar Boyd & The Oklahoma Coal Miners and the Sugarloaf
Swing. He was
proud of the role he played in getting Bob Wills & The Texas
Playboys into
Poteau recently. Buddy was a veteran of the U. S. Navy and a
member of the
Mountain View Baptist Church in Glendale.
Buddy was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife,
Eunice Baker; and a brother, Orben Baker.
He is survived by his wife, Devota, of the home; a son, Larry
Allan Baker of Cleveland, Ohio; a daughter, Denise Wilkins of
Houston, Texas; a sister, Patsy Saucier of Grapeland, TX; three
brothers, Emel Baker and his wife, Phyllis of Wichita, Texas,
Dr. Frank Baker and his wife, Phyllis of Norman, Oklahoma, and
Murray (JR) Baker of San Antonio, Texas; a granddaughter,
Jessica Janeway of Conroe, Texas; special friends Howard &
Darlene Daggs of Greenwood, Arkansas, and many other loved ones
and friends. Pallbearers will be John Hunt, Ronnie Burgess, Roy
Carmack, Morris Elder, Les Odom, Bobby Glover
Services will be 2:00 PM Friday, April 8, 2005, at Grace
Manor Memorial Chapel in Poteau with the Rev. Tim Trent
officiating the services under the direction of Grace Manor
Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Oakland Cemetery in
Poteau.
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