Garnell Baker
May 29, 1918 — March 17, 2014
Garnell Baker
Garnell A. Baker, Land Surveyor
Services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Thursday, March 20, at the United Presbyterian Church in Cleburne for Garnell A. Baker, 95, of Cleburne, who passed away March 17, 2014, at his home.
The Rev. Kenny Rigoulet of the church will conduct the service and will be assisted by the Rev. Jack Hunnicutt. Interment will follow at Rosehill Cemetery.
Garnell was born May 29, 1918, on a small farm near Blum, Hill County, Tex., the son of George Alexander Baker and Amy Hartin Baker. The family moved to Cleburne when Garnell was a very small child, and he resided there for most of his life.
Baker attended the public schools in Cleburne, studied two years at Texas Technological College, and took additional courses at Texas Christian University. He studied civil engineering. Starting in 1939 he taught almost two years in the rural Pecan Grove School near Keene. In 1941 he began employment for the Santa Fe Railway Company, where he worked for the rest of his civilian career.
On June 15, 1940, Garnell married Mary Lois Miller, who he met at a sorority dance at Texas Technological College. Following the wedding at Pyron, Tex., they resided in Cleburne, where she survives him.
Other survivors include his son, T. Lindsay Baker and his wife, Julie, of Blum, and two step grandsons, Jason C. Shaw of Lawton, Okla., and Adam K. Shaw of Blum. Garnell had one sister, Etelka Ouida Baker Williams, who preceded him in death.
During World War II Baker served in the U.S. Army as a survey party chief and corporal in a railway operating battalion in France and Germany. He was part of the Invasion of Southern France and was involved in the Battle of the Bulge, returning to Cleburne in 1946.
Baker became a registered public surveyor in the state of Texas in 1956. In this role he measured land and marked property boundaries for scores of Johnson County residents for more than fifty years. In October 1998 the Texas Society of Professional Surveyors presented him with the Hugh L. George Award for a person who has made a continuing contribution to TSPS and to the surveying profession.
Garnell served a number of years as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in Cleburne, where he became a member in 1929. He also was a Master Mason.
Friends can make memorial gifts to the Presbyterian Childrens Home, 156 Private Road 443, Itasca, Texas 76055, telephone 254-687-2302.
Visitation
Crosier-Pearson Cleburne Funeral Home
512 North Ridgeway Dr.
Cleburne, TX 76033
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
5-6:30 P.M.
Map to Visitation Location
Service
Church
United Presbyterian Church
1510 W. Westhill Dr.
Cleburne, TX 76033
Thursday, March 20, 2014
10:00 A.M.
Map to Service Location
Interment
Rosehill Cemetery
FM 4 and FM 3136
Cleburne , TX 76031
Map to Interment Location
Services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Thursday, March 20, at the United Presbyterian Church in Cleburne for Garnell A. Baker, 95, of Cleburne, who passed away March 17, 2014, at his home.
The Rev. Kenny Rigoulet of the church will conduct the service and will be assisted by the Rev. Jack Hunnicutt. Interment will follow at Rosehill Cemetery.
Garnell was born May 29, 1918, on a small farm near Blum, Hill County, Tex., the son of George Alexander Baker and Amy Hartin Baker. The family moved to Cleburne when Garnell was a very small child, and he resided there for most of his life.
Baker attended the public schools in Cleburne, studied two years at Texas Technological College, and took additional courses at Texas Christian University. He studied civil engineering. Starting in 1939 he taught almost two years in the rural Pecan Grove School near Keene. In 1941 he began employment for the Santa Fe Railway Company, where he worked for the rest of his civilian career.
On June 15, 1940, Garnell married Mary Lois Miller, who he met at a sorority dance at Texas Technological College. Following the wedding at Pyron, Tex., they resided in Cleburne, where she survives him.
Other survivors include his son, T. Lindsay Baker and his wife, Julie, of Blum, and two step grandsons, Jason C. Shaw of Lawton, Okla., and Adam K. Shaw of Blum. Garnell had one sister, Etelka Ouida Baker Williams, who preceded him in death.
During World War II Baker served in the U.S. Army as a survey party chief and corporal in a railway operating battalion in France and Germany. He was part of the Invasion of Southern France and was involved in the Battle of the Bulge, returning to Cleburne in 1946.
Baker became a registered public surveyor in the state of Texas in 1956. In this role he measured land and marked property boundaries for scores of Johnson County residents for more than fifty years. In October 1998 the Texas Society of Professional Surveyors presented him with the Hugh L. George Award for a person who has made a continuing contribution to TSPS and to the surveying profession.
Garnell served a number of years as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in Cleburne, where he became a member in 1929. He also was a Master Mason.
Friends can make memorial gifts to the Presbyterian Childrens Home, 156 Private Road 443, Itasca, Texas 76055, telephone 254-687-2302.
Visitation
Crosier-Pearson Cleburne Funeral Home
512 North Ridgeway Dr.
Cleburne, TX 76033
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
5-6:30 P.M.
Map to Visitation Location
Service
Church
United Presbyterian Church
1510 W. Westhill Dr.
Cleburne, TX 76033
Thursday, March 20, 2014
10:00 A.M.
Map to Service Location
Interment
Rosehill Cemetery
FM 4 and FM 3136
Cleburne , TX 76031
Map to Interment Location
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