Arlene Lois Baker

9, 2019 of age-related causes in her own home. She was born

in Thayer County, Neb., moving between farm and ranch country in

Nebraska until she went to Business College in Lincoln,

Neb. She lived and worked in Lincoln until she married

William L. Baker in 1955. They lived in McCook, Neb. until he

was transferred to Eau Claire, Wis., where their three children

were born. In 1973, they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and then

moved to Tigard, Ore., in 1979.

She belonged to Calvin Presbyterian Church, Eastern Star

and helped with Loaves and Fishes. She loved working on

crafts, whether on her own, with the ladies in Trailer Clubs that

she and her husband belonged to, or Eastern Star or church

for bazaars. She loved gardening. While she never wanted

to own a house after her husband died, she encouraged her

daughter, with whom she lived to buy a house and filled almost

every empty space with flowers and plants of every shape

and variety. Almost every day she could be found out in the

backyard tending to her plants, until she was not physically

able to anymore.

She loved traveling. She, her husband and family traveled to

many places in the U.S. from Washington, D.C. to Hawaii. Their

favorite place was Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

When they lived in Salt Lake City, they would go there for a

week every year. In her later years when she couldn’t travel

very much, she loved sitting in her chair and watching the birds

and squirrels in the backyard. If she didn’t immediately know a

bird, she would look it up in the many bird books that she had

for identifying them.

She is survived by her children, Alicia A. Baker, Tualatin,

Ore., Bradley W. Baker, Warrenton, Ore., Kimberly K. (Larry

D.) Seely, Hammond, Ore.; grandchild, Chris D. Seely, Austin,

Texas; one niece; two nephews; and two cousins. She was

preceded in death, by her husband, Bill; and her two sisters,

Madlyn and Margaret.

A graveside service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Feb. 18, 2019, at

Crescent Grove Cemetery, Tigard, OR. Remembrances may be

made in her memory to The Salvation Army.