Lydia ""Peggy Kathryn Baker

Peggy went home with the Lord Jesus on September 16, 2011 in Cheyenne, WY. Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at Northfield Church in Gering with Pastor Troy Allen officiating. Interment will be in West Lawn Cemetery in Gering. The Peggy Baker Memorial Fund has been established. Friends may call at the funeral home between 1-8:00 p.m. Monday. Peggy was born September 17, 1919 in Lincoln, NE to Conrad and Mary Elizabeth (Kolb) Lebsack. She lived and attended school in Lincoln until 1933 when her family relocated to farm near Yoder, WY. On March 13, 1942 she married the love of her life R. E. “Bake” Baker. They lived in Galveston, TX where Bake was stationed with the U. S. Army. After his tour of duty, they returned to Gering, NE where they lived most of their lives. Peggy was a housewife, mother, manager and buyer for the chain of Murphy’s department stores and an active member of Northfield Assembly of God Church. In 2000, Peggy moved to Cheyenne where she spent the remainder of her life. Peggy is survived by her four children: Mary Ella Murphy, Kathryn Lorene (George) Wagner, James Roy, II (Connie) Baker, and Susan Kay (Dan) Cottrell; 9 grandchldren, Larry Murphy, Lori (Murphy) Rotan, John Wagner, Jeff Wagner, Jennifer Wagner, James Wagner, Julianna Wagner, Isaac Baker, Jeanee’ Baker, Elizabeth Baker, Skyler Baily; five great-grandchildren and four sisters Esther Carpenter, Florence Smith, LaVerne Albrandt and Shirley Quigley. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, three sisters and three brothers.