Marion Baker

Marion Baker
03/12/1925 - 04/28/2021
Hasemann Funeral Home

Memorial Services for Marion I. Baker 96, of Wayne, will be held at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Wayne on Wednesday, August 18th at 11:00 a.m. Visitation will be Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. until Time of Service at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Wayne. Interment will be at Greenwood Cemetery in Wayne. She passed away on April 28 at Wayne Countryview Care. Memorials may be directed to Marion’s family for later designation. Arrangements are with Hasemann Funeral Home of Wayne.

Marion Irene Baker was born March 12, 1925, on a farm northwest of Wayne, NE, to August and Martha (Linke) Kruse. She attended school District 48 and graduated from Wayne High School in 1942. Marion worked for the Wayne County Extension office for a year after graduation. World War II was raging and Marion was asked to work for the military and was employed by the Department of the Navy in Chicago and then in Lincoln until the war ended. She then spent some time at home helping her parents on the farm. Marion married Folmer Dean Detlefsen in 1946. The couple farmed northwest of Laurel, NE, until 1955. They decided to quit farming and moved to Golden, CO. In 1959 Marion married Ralph Baker. Ralph’s son, Mike, age 8, became part of the family as they made their home on Iowa St. in Golden for the next fifty years. Marion worked in an insurance office, then at Golden Savings and Loan, and for the next 26 years as secretary at a real estate business. Ralph passed away in 2005 and Marion moved back to Wayne in 2008.

Marion was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph, parents and brother, Elmer Kruse, in 1937.

She is survived by step-son, Mike (Fran Mueller) Baker of Hotchkiss, CO, and grandchildren Karey (Brian Engebretson) Baker and Todd (Lacie) Baker and great grandchildren, Chantz Engebretson and Dillon and Baily Baker, all of Golden, CO, and special cousins, Phyllis Rahn and Dan Roberts.

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