Mrs. Hazel Baker, 84, 109 W. Madison Ave., life-long resident, died March 24 in Mercy Hospital, Janesville, following a long illness. Funeral rites were held March 28 in the Albrecht Funeral Home with Rev. Earl Cruzan, pastor of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church officiating. Burial was in Milton Cemetery with Howard Drake, Carl Sunby, Clarence Morrissey, Fred Schultz, Richard Anderson and Frank Bolac as pallbearers.
Mrs. Baker was born August 2, 1887 in Albion, the daughter of Randolph and Julia Osborne Burdick. Her marriage to Uriah M. Baker took place in 1903 at Rockford, Ill. He died in 1957.
She held membership in the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church, Fortnightly Club and Milton Historical Society.
Surviving is a son, Harold R., Diamond Dale, Mich.; and a daughter, Miss Florence Baker, who resided with her mother; two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the Arthritis Foundation.
