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Bessie Pearl Baker
contributed by The Hugo Daily News

Services for Bessie Pearl Baker, of Soper, were at 2 p.m. Feb. 8, 2003 at the Soper Assembly of God Church. The Rev. Donnie Waggoner officiated the ceremony. Interment followed at the Soper Cemetery.

Bessie Pearl Baker died Feb. 5, 2003 in Paris, Texas. She was 92.

Pearl Baker was born Jan. 30, 1911 in Sawyer to Jasper Newt & Annie Elizabeth (Ainsworth) Thompson. She was a lifelong resident of Soper, Pearl was a member of the Soper Assembly of God church and was a homemaker. She married Edward Baker May 20, 1937.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1988; a son, Benny Jo Pipkins; a daughter, Wanda Chapman; a brother, Ralph Thompson; and a sister, Atlas Holly.

She is survived by two sons, Edward Baker, Jr. of Hugo and Jess Burl Baker of Paris, Texas; a daughter, Alyde Harris of Apple Valley, Calif.; seven grandchildren, Tammy Morlaes, Riccki Nibblett, Ronald Shelton, Sue Shehan, Carla Guy, Melissa Alley and Christopher Baker; seven great-grandchildren, Miranda & Caitlin Bates, Eric Shelton, Brandon Thomas, Yasaraly Morlaes, Mandy & Stephanie Shelton; and one great-great-grandchild, Chasity Guy.

Prater-Lampton-Mills & Coffey Funeral Home in Hugo handled the funeral arrangements.
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