OBIT: Ruth A. (BARRON) BOWMAN BAKER, 1973, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  BAKER
  
  Mrs. Ruth A. Bowman Baker, 78, of Colonial Heights, Va., formerly of
  Somerset RD 2, died Feb. 10 at the Siemon Nursing Home.  She was born April
  12, 1894, in Somerset County, a daughter of the late Wilson and Sadie
  Shaffer Barron.  She also was preceded in death by her first husband Homer
  F. Bowman, her second husband John L. Baker, six brothers and three
  sisters.  She is survived by children, Mrs. M. H. (Lena) Grove of Somerset;
  Mrs. Roy (Fern) Saylor of Lebanon; Mrs. Ruben (Norma) Burgess of Colonial
  Heights, Va.; Wayne of Van Nuyes, Calif.; a step-son Clarence Baker of
  Connellsville; nine grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.  She was a
  member of St. Paul's United Church of Christ and Wimodausis Rebekah Lodge,
  Somerset. Friends will be received after 2 p.m.
  today in the Richard E. Hauger Funeral Home where services will be
  conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Richard Shellenberger,. 
  Interment in Lavansville Reformed Cemetery.

   Daily American, 13 February 1973
  
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