The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-11-25
MRS. r. A. BAKER.
Feeling Tribute to Memory of True
Christian Woman.

L
Christian Woman.
Mrs. Louise Wing Baker, whose
mother was cousin of Abraham Lin
coin, was born at BIZ rlwster, Mass,
March 19, 1886. Thent , in early life
with her family she moved to Michi-
Igan, where, in Medina township,
| she was married in 1854 to
Reusalear A. Baker, and there lived
| on farm until her husbands death
lin 1883; after which, with her three
children-Eugene, Carrie and Her
| bert-she moved to Morenci, Michi-
gan, which place she eveRI afterwards
considered her home. In 1894 she
came to White Castle, La, to live with
her son, Herbert L. Baker, who year
| before had accepted position with
the White Castle Lumber Co.
| Following a custom of spending
the summer months with friends and
home folk in Morenci, from which she
| nad varied only once since coming
| south, it was on the occasion of this
annual home-going visit, in company
| with her granddaughter, Miss Olive
Baker, who was acting as both her
companion and her nurse, that she
| ascended to "the house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens" Fri
day morning, Oct. 20, 1916, while
guest of V. E. Baldwin, brother of
Mrs. H. L. Baker.
Assisted by the pastor of the Mo-
renci Baptist church, of which Sister
Baker had continued to be member,
and the pastor of the local Methodist
church, the funeral was conducted by
Rev. C. E. Wakefield, of the Michi-
gan M. E. Conference, longtime
friend of the family, and member of
the firm of Baker Wakefield Cypress
Co., of Plattenville, La, The pail
bearers were old friends of the FAM
lily from the Medina Baker home COM
munity, and the music was rendered
by the local Methodist choir.
Since Sister Baker was lover of
flowers, and took special notice of
them as love tokens at the burial of
friends and dear ones, it was happy
coincidence that her casket should
have been profusely covered with
shese fragrant emblems of love and
purity. For since they could not be
present in person, her friends and the
ber mill at Plattenville, La, where as
4 member of the family his mother
had spent the last years of her life,
sent through northern florists a very
beautiful offering of artistically ar
ranged flowers. The members Of the
Donaldsonville Sunday School, of
which Brother Baker is the superin-
sendent, also sent floral offering. To
the flowers from Donaldsonville were
attached a card bearing the inscrip-
lion: "A love token from Louisiana
friends who were blessed by the last
years Of her genuinely pieus and ufl- !.
selish life
While from other standpoints Sis M
ter Baker was most exemplary
character, it was in her home that
her practical saintliness was seen to
BEST advantage, and her mother love
was seen to be most beautiful. Her
ton, with whom she lived, was her
ideal and her joy-her own boy
Bert" And his wife and daughter
were to her as dear children, and min
'stered to her needs during the years
of her increasing feebleness with a
tenderness all but as rare as it was
beautiful In them was her life
wrapped up.
But Sister Bakers interests and
service did not stop in the home, for
every cry of human need appealed to
aer, and she was close observer and
student of the times, even to having
4 lively interest in the political issues
Of the country And the church
never had a more devoted and con-
secrated adherent than was she.
Her characteristics, as nearly as
any one whom we have ever known,
were those set forth as marks Of the
IDEAL woman in Proverbs 81 1921.
She stretched out her hand to the
poor and to the needy, and was
not afraid of the snow for her house
hold,.----,.She opened her mouth with
wisdom and the law of kindness
was on her tongue Her children
rise up to call her blessed"
No more perfect saint were we ev-
er blessed in knowing, and the value
of her life in establishing the worth
Of christian character where she lived
and served is beyond estimate. She
was patient, kind, unselfsh, consecra-
ted, spiritual, and Christ-like. She
was Grandma Baker," the mother to
her community, the sinners friend,
the mourners' comforter, and the
minister to every one who had need
"Many daughters have done ex-
cellently, but thou excellest them all.
P. o. LOWREY.