SHELBY R. BAKER

Shelby R. Baker, 47, 130 S. Henderson, died Wednesday, April 12, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Aug. 25, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, son of Emmett and Evelyn Abernathy Baker Sr. He and Hattie Williams were married Aug. 22, 1980, in Cape Girardeau.

Baker was a 1965 graduate of Central High School. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and received a Bronze Star.

He was employed 13 years at Dow Chemical, and the past 17 years at Lone Star Industries. He was a member of New Horizon Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Nicole Baker of Cape Girardeau; three brothers, Charles King and Emmett Baker Jr. of Cape Girardeau, Frank Baker of Fort Wayne, Ind., Rodney Baker of Atlanta, Ga.; three sisters, Mollie Mays, Ruth Cato and Lois Day of Fort Wayne, and two grandchildren.

Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel, with the Rev. Howard McGee officiating. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery.

Friends may call Saturday at the funeral home from 10 a.m. to service time.