John H. Baker

John H. Baker, 74, Topeka, died Saturday, June 12, 2004, at the Colmery-O'Neil VA Hospital. He was born Nov. 15, 1929, in Waterville, Minn., to Arthur Eugene and Sylvia Freida Brinkman Baker. Mr. Baker was an Air Force veteran. He retired from the Air Force as a Tech Sgt. He later worked for 18 years as a General Maintenance Technician for the Kansas Neurological Institute. He married Gertrude Kohl on Dec. 15, 1964. She survives. Other survivors include four sons, Bobby, Danny, Jimmy and John Baker, all of Wichita Falls, Texas; five daughters, Nancy Baker, Wichita Falls, Texas, Sandy Baker-Adams and her husband, Keith, Ursula Cooper and her husband, Steve, Barbara Strickland and Irene Camfield, all of Topeka; two brothers, Dwight Baker, Greeley, Colo., and Jerry Baker, Arizona; two sisters, Carol Wright, Loveland, Ohio, and Doris Beiwer, North Dakota; and grandchildren. A funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel. Burial will follow at Mou nt Hope Cemetery. Mr. Baker will lie in state after 3 p.m. Wednesday at Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel, where family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Memorial contributions may be given to the Blue Team at the Colmery-O'Neil VA Hospital, 2200 S.W. Gage Boulevard, Topeka, 66622. Online condolences may be made at www.penwellgabel.com .