Geneva Baker

Geneva R. Baker Geneva Robina Baker, 91, of Neodesha, Kansas passed away on Saturday, November 12, 2011 at Golden Living Center in Neodesha. Funeral Services will be 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, November 16, at the First Church of the Nazarene in Neodesha under the direction of PenwellGabel Loran Fawcett Chapel. The Reverends Darrell Bisel and Carl Soliday will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday from noon until 8 p.m. The family will receive friends from 68 p.m. Interment will be in Neodesha Cemetery. Geneva was born on January 12, 1920 in Rosston, Oklahoma, to Oran Chandler Usher and Martha Naomi Usher. She grew up in Gate, Oklahoma, and moved with her parents to Sedan, Kansas, in her teenage years. She married Carlie Olen Goode of Waneta, Kansas, in 1937. They later divorced. They had three sons: Ronnie Goode of Crestview, FL, Kellie Goode of Nixa, MO, and Wayne Goode of Kennesaw, GA. All survive. She is survived by six grandchildren two greatgrandchildren and three greatgreatgrandchildren. She married Charles Baker in 1978. He preceded her in death. She was known as Geneva Goode to her coemployees at Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Airosol Company in Neodesha, Electra Company in Independence, and K.A.A.P. in Parsons where she retired in 1978. She was a fiftyyear member of the First Church of the Nazarene in Neodesha. She will be remembered by her Sunday school students of more than 30 years. She was preceded in death by seven siblings: Glenn Usher, Darrell Usher, Robert Usher, Fernleigh Usher who died in infancy, Arthur Usher, Viola Usher Frazier, Ocie Lee Ellen Usher Elkins Gentry. The family has suggested memorial contributions to the Golden Living Activity Fund.