IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Mae J.

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Baker

September 28, 1914 – April 6, 2007

Obituary

Mae J. Baker, age 92, of Elkton, died Friday, April 6, 2007, at Riverview Manor in Flandreau, South Dakota. Funeral services will be 10:30 A.M. Tuesday, April 10, 2007, at Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church in Elkton, with interment in the Old Woodlawn Cemetery at Pipestone, Minnesota. Visitations will be from 4-8 P.M. Monday at Eidsness-Zink Funeral Chapel in Elkton. Mae Josephine (Rollefson) Baker was born September 28, 1914, at Corinth, North Dakota, to Josias and Amanda (Hytland) Rollefson. She attended school in Divide County, North Dakota. On August 27, 1934, she married Leonard Buster Baker at Pipestone, Minnesota. The Bakers farmed for many years near Elkton, and moved into town in 1993. Mae and Buster provided musical entertainment for many nursing homes in the area and at other community events. They enjoyed traveling together, and spent several winters in Arizona and Texas. They were selected King and Queen of the Rio Grand Valley of the Wintering People while in Texas. Buster died November 24, 2005. Mae was a member of Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church in Elkton. She enjoyed music, oil painting, traveling, and flower gardening. Survivors include four children: Joyce (John) Kramer of Elkton, Harvey (Koyla) Baker of Mason City, Iowa; Barbara (Richard) Landsman of Elkton; and Kenneth (Judy) Baker of Lexington, Oklahoma; eleven grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren; and a sister, Ella Tills, of Spokane, Washington. She was preceded in death by her husband; three brothers: Larry, Albert, and Edwin Rollefson; a sister, Theolina Rollefson; and infant twin children, Verna and Vernice.
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