The Life of GERALD LYMAN BAKER
Gerald Lyman Baker, 60, of 421 S.W. Westlawn Drive, Ankeny, died of emphysema Thursday at Iowa Methodist Medical Center. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Calvary Lutheran Church for the Deaf, of which he was a member. Burial will be in Highland Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Mr. Baker was born in Mount Ayr and moved to Ankeny from Des Moines in 1966. He retired as a carpenter at Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Surviving are his wife, Harriet; a son, Randy of Des Moines; a daughter, Kristina Baker of Dallas; five brothers, Darrell of Gainesville, Fla., Ralph of Blue Springs, Mo., Richard of Des Moines, Kenneth of Osceola and Terry of Broomington, Colo.; and three sisters, Evelyn Bradley of Minneapolis and Rosemarie Blauer and Cheryl Smith, both of Des Moines.
Friends may call after 3 p.m. today at Hamilton''s Near Highland Memory Gardens Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
Mr. Baker was born in Mount Ayr and moved to Ankeny from Des Moines in 1966. He retired as a carpenter at Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Surviving are his wife, Harriet; a son, Randy of Des Moines; a daughter, Kristina Baker of Dallas; five brothers, Darrell of Gainesville, Fla., Ralph of Blue Springs, Mo., Richard of Des Moines, Kenneth of Osceola and Terry of Broomington, Colo.; and three sisters, Evelyn Bradley of Minneapolis and Rosemarie Blauer and Cheryl Smith, both of Des Moines.
Friends may call after 3 p.m. today at Hamilton''s Near Highland Memory Gardens Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m.