NEW MEXICO STAFF SGT 398 INF 100 DIVISION WORLD WAR II
(Ref: THE DAILY CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Tuesday, January 25, 1949, page 7, reads as follows:
LAST RITES FOR
SGT. FLOYD BAKER
SET TOMORROW
Funeral services for Staff Sgt. Floyd W. Baker of Carlsbad, who was killed in Germany on Oct. 7, 1945, will be held in the West Chapel at 3 p.m. tomorrow, with J.L. Pritchard of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Carlsbad Cemetery.
The body of Sgt. Baker will arrive here tomorrow morning with a military escort. He had been buried in a military cemetery near Metz, France.
Sgt. Baker is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Duke Horn and Mrs. I.L. Green, both of Carlsbad, and a brother, C.E. Baker of Big Spring, Tex.
Before his induction into the Army on Feb. 4, 1944, at Fort Bliss, Tex., Sgt. Baker had lived here nine years and had worked on a ranch near Carlsbad. He came here from Snyder, Tex. He was in the 100th Division of the Seventh Army in Germany, and had served overseas for about a year before his death.
He had been awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and Infantry Badge.
(Ref: THE DAILY CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Tuesday, January 25, 1949, page 7, reads as follows:
LAST RITES FOR
SGT. FLOYD BAKER
SET TOMORROW
Funeral services for Staff Sgt. Floyd W. Baker of Carlsbad, who was killed in Germany on Oct. 7, 1945, will be held in the West Chapel at 3 p.m. tomorrow, with J.L. Pritchard of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Carlsbad Cemetery.
The body of Sgt. Baker will arrive here tomorrow morning with a military escort. He had been buried in a military cemetery near Metz, France.
Sgt. Baker is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Duke Horn and Mrs. I.L. Green, both of Carlsbad, and a brother, C.E. Baker of Big Spring, Tex.
Before his induction into the Army on Feb. 4, 1944, at Fort Bliss, Tex., Sgt. Baker had lived here nine years and had worked on a ranch near Carlsbad. He came here from Snyder, Tex. He was in the 100th Division of the Seventh Army in Germany, and had served overseas for about a year before his death.
He had been awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and Infantry Badge.
NEW MEXICO STAFF SGT 398 INF 100 DIVISION WORLD WAR II
(Ref: THE DAILY CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Tuesday, January 25, 1949, page 7, reads as follows:
LAST RITES FOR
SGT. FLOYD BAKER
SET TOMORROW
Funeral services for Staff Sgt. Floyd W. Baker of Carlsbad, who was killed in Germany on Oct. 7, 1945, will be held in the West Chapel at 3 p.m. tomorrow, with J.L. Pritchard of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Carlsbad Cemetery.
The body of Sgt. Baker will arrive here tomorrow morning with a military escort. He had been buried in a military cemetery near Metz, France.
Sgt. Baker is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Duke Horn and Mrs. I.L. Green, both of Carlsbad, and a brother, C.E. Baker of Big Spring, Tex.
Before his induction into the Army on Feb. 4, 1944, at Fort Bliss, Tex., Sgt. Baker had lived here nine years and had worked on a ranch near Carlsbad. He came here from Snyder, Tex. He was in the 100th Division of the Seventh Army in Germany, and had served overseas for about a year before his death.
He had been awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and Infantry Badge.
(Ref: THE DAILY CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Tuesday, January 25, 1949, page 7, reads as follows:
LAST RITES FOR
SGT. FLOYD BAKER
SET TOMORROW
Funeral services for Staff Sgt. Floyd W. Baker of Carlsbad, who was killed in Germany on Oct. 7, 1945, will be held in the West Chapel at 3 p.m. tomorrow, with J.L. Pritchard of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Carlsbad Cemetery.
The body of Sgt. Baker will arrive here tomorrow morning with a military escort. He had been buried in a military cemetery near Metz, France.
Sgt. Baker is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Duke Horn and Mrs. I.L. Green, both of Carlsbad, and a brother, C.E. Baker of Big Spring, Tex.
Before his induction into the Army on Feb. 4, 1944, at Fort Bliss, Tex., Sgt. Baker had lived here nine years and had worked on a ranch near Carlsbad. He came here from Snyder, Tex. He was in the 100th Division of the Seventh Army in Germany, and had served overseas for about a year before his death.
He had been awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and Infantry Badge.
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