Calista Amelia Baker
Dec. 31, 1851-Aug. 10, 1937
Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, August 11, 1937, page 1, col. 7, microfilm Niles District Library
Berrien Resident 62 years is dead
Mrs. Calista A. Baker, 86, stricken after brief illness.
Mrs. Calista Amelia Baker, 86, prominent Niles resident, died at 10:20 o’clock Tuesday night at her home, 815 Main Street. She had been ill since Sunday when she suffered a stroke of paralysis.
Mrs. Baker had lived in Niles since February 1905, having moved her with her husband, M.D. Baker, from Galien. She was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Niles.
Last of 8 sisters
The daughter of the late Daniel and Martha Smith, Mrs. Baker is the last of a family of eight children. She was born in Akron, O. December 31, 1851.
She was married to Mr. Baker in North Manchester, Ind., June 15, 1875. Shortly after their marriage they moved to Galien to live. Mr. Baker died in Niles in 1925.
Mrs. Baker leaves four daughters, Phena Baker, an instructor in State Teachers college, Milwaukee, Wis, Mrs. Lillian Walton and Mrs. Georgia Campbell, both of Niles and Mrs. Lynn Nack, Three Rivers, a son, Paul, Niles, also nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Baker home followed by burial in Silverbrook Cemetery.
The body will be at the Price and Kiger Funeral Home where friends may call until Friday morning.
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, August 12, 1937, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
Services Friday for Member of Pioneer Family
Final rites for Mrs. Calista Amelia Baker, 85, will be held at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Baker home, 315 Main street, with the Rev. Wanser Brunella, of the First Presbyterian church, Buchanan, officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.
Relatives who will serve as pallbearers are: Robert and Lynn Mack, Theodore Wienke, Burdette Palmer, and Ray and Orville Smith.
Mrs. Baker, a prominent Niles resident, died at her home Tueesday night following a brief illness.
Friends may call at the Price and Kiger funeral home until Friday morning when the body will be removed to the Baker home.