Funeral service for Lorna Baker of Shreveport, La., will be held at 2:30 p.m. today at Rose-Neath Southside Chapel. The Revs. J.M. Cason and Harold Bagnetto will officiate, with burial in Forest Park West.
Baker, 70, died Saturday, Feb. 19, 1994, at her home.
The former Miss Richardson was a native of Cobden, Ill., and had also lived in Cape Girardeau.
She had lived in Shreveport 36 years, and was a retired seamstress for Selber Brothers. She was a member of Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church.
Survivors include two sons, David and James Baker of Shreveport; a daughter, Julia Gramm of Shreveport; two sisters, Frances Miner and Betty Ross of Cape Girardeau; four brothers, John Richardson of Malta, Mont., James Richardson of Bakersfield, Calif., Michael Richardson of Houston, Thomas Richardson of Independence, Kan.; eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James Russell Baker Sr., a brother and granddaughter.
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