A. Wayne Baker, Salt Lake City/Phoenix businessman and church leader, died today at age ninety-one.
He was born April 9, 1921 to John Edmond and Leonora Taylor Harris Baker in Salt Lake City, Utah. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Harris, Jr., was a Utah Pioneer.
He married Edith Marcelle Wonnacott on December 16, 1939. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. They celebrated their seventy-third anniversary this year.
He served in the South Pacific with the Navy Seabees in World War II building the airbases on Tinian from which the Enola Gay flew to drop the atomic bombs on the Japanese empire, then, successively became the Civilian Chief of the Public Relations office at Hill Air Force Base, promotion director of KSL Radio, Vice President/Co-owner of Francom/Baker Advertising Agency, President and founder of Ad/Man advertising agency of Salt Lake, then became a senior vice-president of Evans Advertising, of Salt Lake City. Moving to Phoenix in 1975, he became vice-president/co-owner of Advertising Management of Phoenix, whose chief account was Century 21 Real Estate.
Returning to Salt Lake in 1997, he became executive vice-pres. Of American Travel Inns, president of Baker/Francis & Associates Marketing Consultants, president/CEO of Art Masters International Galleries, and City Manager and Acquisition Manager of the intermountain area for National Self Storage Management, Inc. He won several national awards for his advertising/public relations campaigns and for superior leadership.
He served as president of the Rose Park Lions Club, President of the Utah Sales and Marketing Executives, and President of the Utah Pilots Association as a director of the Salt Lake AD Club. He was City Manager of National Self Storage Management for ten years, receiving numerous citations for his management skills; then retired at age eighty-four.
He was the first superintendent for the Rose Park Stake Young Men's MIA and later served in the bishopric of the Val Verda Seventh ward, on the High Council of the Orchard and Taylorsville West stakes. For fourteen years, he served in the Jordan River Temple as an ordinance worker and supervisor, then as executive secretary to the temple president. He was a High Priest.
He is survived by his wife, Marcelle; two daughters, JoAnn Tonnie Collins (Alfred R. Collins, deceased), Pierre, South Dakota; and Lee Ann Francis (Jay Kent Francis) of South Jordan, Utah; and one son, Robert Wayne Baker (Jeanne M. Baker) of West Valley City, Utah. He has fourteen grandchildren, thirty-nine great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 29, 2012 in the East Mill Creek Fifteenth Ward Chapel, 3750 South Hillside Lane. A viewing will be held that morning prior to the services from 10:00 to 11:30.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on December 27, 2012.
He was born April 9, 1921 to John Edmond and Leonora Taylor Harris Baker in Salt Lake City, Utah. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Harris, Jr., was a Utah Pioneer.
He married Edith Marcelle Wonnacott on December 16, 1939. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. They celebrated their seventy-third anniversary this year.
He served in the South Pacific with the Navy Seabees in World War II building the airbases on Tinian from which the Enola Gay flew to drop the atomic bombs on the Japanese empire, then, successively became the Civilian Chief of the Public Relations office at Hill Air Force Base, promotion director of KSL Radio, Vice President/Co-owner of Francom/Baker Advertising Agency, President and founder of Ad/Man advertising agency of Salt Lake, then became a senior vice-president of Evans Advertising, of Salt Lake City. Moving to Phoenix in 1975, he became vice-president/co-owner of Advertising Management of Phoenix, whose chief account was Century 21 Real Estate.
Returning to Salt Lake in 1997, he became executive vice-pres. Of American Travel Inns, president of Baker/Francis & Associates Marketing Consultants, president/CEO of Art Masters International Galleries, and City Manager and Acquisition Manager of the intermountain area for National Self Storage Management, Inc. He won several national awards for his advertising/public relations campaigns and for superior leadership.
He served as president of the Rose Park Lions Club, President of the Utah Sales and Marketing Executives, and President of the Utah Pilots Association as a director of the Salt Lake AD Club. He was City Manager of National Self Storage Management for ten years, receiving numerous citations for his management skills; then retired at age eighty-four.
He was the first superintendent for the Rose Park Stake Young Men's MIA and later served in the bishopric of the Val Verda Seventh ward, on the High Council of the Orchard and Taylorsville West stakes. For fourteen years, he served in the Jordan River Temple as an ordinance worker and supervisor, then as executive secretary to the temple president. He was a High Priest.
He is survived by his wife, Marcelle; two daughters, JoAnn Tonnie Collins (Alfred R. Collins, deceased), Pierre, South Dakota; and Lee Ann Francis (Jay Kent Francis) of South Jordan, Utah; and one son, Robert Wayne Baker (Jeanne M. Baker) of West Valley City, Utah. He has fourteen grandchildren, thirty-nine great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 29, 2012 in the East Mill Creek Fifteenth Ward Chapel, 3750 South Hillside Lane. A viewing will be held that morning prior to the services from 10:00 to 11:30.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on December 27, 2012.
A. Wayne Baker, Salt Lake City/Phoenix businessman and church leader, died today at age ninety-one.
He was born April 9, 1921 to John Edmond and Leonora Taylor Harris Baker in Salt Lake City, Utah. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Harris, Jr., was a Utah Pioneer.
He married Edith Marcelle Wonnacott on December 16, 1939. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. They celebrated their seventy-third anniversary this year.
He served in the South Pacific with the Navy Seabees in World War II building the airbases on Tinian from which the Enola Gay flew to drop the atomic bombs on the Japanese empire, then, successively became the Civilian Chief of the Public Relations office at Hill Air Force Base, promotion director of KSL Radio, Vice President/Co-owner of Francom/Baker Advertising Agency, President and founder of Ad/Man advertising agency of Salt Lake, then became a senior vice-president of Evans Advertising, of Salt Lake City. Moving to Phoenix in 1975, he became vice-president/co-owner of Advertising Management of Phoenix, whose chief account was Century 21 Real Estate.
Returning to Salt Lake in 1997, he became executive vice-pres. Of American Travel Inns, president of Baker/Francis & Associates Marketing Consultants, president/CEO of Art Masters International Galleries, and City Manager and Acquisition Manager of the intermountain area for National Self Storage Management, Inc. He won several national awards for his advertising/public relations campaigns and for superior leadership.
He served as president of the Rose Park Lions Club, President of the Utah Sales and Marketing Executives, and President of the Utah Pilots Association as a director of the Salt Lake AD Club. He was City Manager of National Self Storage Management for ten years, receiving numerous citations for his management skills; then retired at age eighty-four.
He was the first superintendent for the Rose Park Stake Young Men's MIA and later served in the bishopric of the Val Verda Seventh ward, on the High Council of the Orchard and Taylorsville West stakes. For fourteen years, he served in the Jordan River Temple as an ordinance worker and supervisor, then as executive secretary to the temple president. He was a High Priest.
He is survived by his wife, Marcelle; two daughters, JoAnn Tonnie Collins (Alfred R. Collins, deceased), Pierre, South Dakota; and Lee Ann Francis (Jay Kent Francis) of South Jordan, Utah; and one son, Robert Wayne Baker (Jeanne M. Baker) of West Valley City, Utah. He has fourteen grandchildren, thirty-nine great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 29, 2012 in the East Mill Creek Fifteenth Ward Chapel, 3750 South Hillside Lane. A viewing will be held that morning prior to the services from 10:00 to 11:30.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on December 27, 2012.
He was born April 9, 1921 to John Edmond and Leonora Taylor Harris Baker in Salt Lake City, Utah. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Harris, Jr., was a Utah Pioneer.
He married Edith Marcelle Wonnacott on December 16, 1939. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. They celebrated their seventy-third anniversary this year.
He served in the South Pacific with the Navy Seabees in World War II building the airbases on Tinian from which the Enola Gay flew to drop the atomic bombs on the Japanese empire, then, successively became the Civilian Chief of the Public Relations office at Hill Air Force Base, promotion director of KSL Radio, Vice President/Co-owner of Francom/Baker Advertising Agency, President and founder of Ad/Man advertising agency of Salt Lake, then became a senior vice-president of Evans Advertising, of Salt Lake City. Moving to Phoenix in 1975, he became vice-president/co-owner of Advertising Management of Phoenix, whose chief account was Century 21 Real Estate.
Returning to Salt Lake in 1997, he became executive vice-pres. Of American Travel Inns, president of Baker/Francis & Associates Marketing Consultants, president/CEO of Art Masters International Galleries, and City Manager and Acquisition Manager of the intermountain area for National Self Storage Management, Inc. He won several national awards for his advertising/public relations campaigns and for superior leadership.
He served as president of the Rose Park Lions Club, President of the Utah Sales and Marketing Executives, and President of the Utah Pilots Association as a director of the Salt Lake AD Club. He was City Manager of National Self Storage Management for ten years, receiving numerous citations for his management skills; then retired at age eighty-four.
He was the first superintendent for the Rose Park Stake Young Men's MIA and later served in the bishopric of the Val Verda Seventh ward, on the High Council of the Orchard and Taylorsville West stakes. For fourteen years, he served in the Jordan River Temple as an ordinance worker and supervisor, then as executive secretary to the temple president. He was a High Priest.
He is survived by his wife, Marcelle; two daughters, JoAnn Tonnie Collins (Alfred R. Collins, deceased), Pierre, South Dakota; and Lee Ann Francis (Jay Kent Francis) of South Jordan, Utah; and one son, Robert Wayne Baker (Jeanne M. Baker) of West Valley City, Utah. He has fourteen grandchildren, thirty-nine great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 29, 2012 in the East Mill Creek Fifteenth Ward Chapel, 3750 South Hillside Lane. A viewing will be held that morning prior to the services from 10:00 to 11:30.
Published in the Salt Lake Tribune on December 27, 2012.
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