Bethena Baker, 84, of Garnett, died Thursday, July 15, 2010, at Golden Heights Living Center in Garnett.
She was born in Moran on Oct. 25, 1925, daughter of Samuel Ernest and Elizabeth (Boggs) Fowler. She was graduated from Moran High School and attended college at Allen County and Neosho County Community Colleges.
She married Lloyd Dale “Bill” Baker in August 1944 in Iola. They moved to Wichita where she worked as an office manager for an oil company. She was a Girl Scout leader in Wichita for more than 15 years. They moved to Garnett in 1968, where she worked part time at a fabric shop for the Eichmans. He died in 1989.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Garnett and Order of the Eastern Star since age 16. She also was a member of the quilt guild in Garnett. She loved to cook, bake, play pitch and bridge, paint and do arts and crafts.
She is survived by her son, John S. and his wife, Sharon, Olathe; her daughter, Cindy Adams, Yates Center; three grandchildren, Cheri Young and her husband, Kris, Cheney, Chris Baker and his wife, Jill, Olathe, and Kelci Botts and husband, Jason, Bronson; and four great-grandchildren.
Four brothers, Ted, Bill, Francis and Homer; and three sisters, Gladys, Pearl and Dutch, died earlier.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church in Garnett. Burial will follow in Moran Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Garnett.
Memorials can be made to the Bill and Beth Baker Memorial Music Scholarship Fund. Online condolences may be sent to www.feuerbornfuneral.com.
Bethena Baker
