JoAnn Baker, 78, of Winona Lake, passed away Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, at 5:45 a.m. in Grace Village Retirement Community, Winona Lake. She was born June 29, 1939, in Gowanda, N.Y., to Raymond and Helen Marie Barton Fulton.
She moved to Kosciusko County in 1972 from New York. She was united in marriage to Larry L. Baker on July 8, 1972, in Pierceton. She worked for Pletcher’s Grocery Store, Pierceton, and at First National Bank, Warsaw, doing clerical work. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Church, Pierceton, where she was also a church treasurer.
She is survived by sons, Bruce (Tanya) Reinhart, Cromwell, and Robert Baker, Pierceton; daughters, Sandra (Leon) Smith, Prairie Grove, Ark., and Linda Sainer, Warsaw; sisters, Nancy LeFort, Winona Lake; and Mary Gervasi of Winona Lake; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Larry L. Baker, on Oct. 29, 2008; a son, James Baker; and daughters Sue Reinhart and LeAnne Baker.
Visitation is scheduled from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28 at McHatton-Sadler Funeral Chapel, Warsaw. A committal service will follow immediately after at 8 p.m. with Pastor Jim Baughman officiating. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 2 at Hillcrest Cemetery, Pierceton.
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Memorials to: Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001.
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