Raymond Baker

(From Carson-Wall Funeral Home)

Raymond J. Baker, Sr., 93, of Altamont, died at 11:13 p.m., Saturday, April 21, 2018, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Wichita. 

He was born May 11, 1924, at Chetopa, to Joseph R. and Sarah (McVey) Baker. He attended school in Chetopa. During World War II he served in the United States Army in the Pacific area. He received the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal, the World War II Victory Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. 

In June of 1946 he married Virginia L. Emert of Chetopa and they divorced in 1983. He was a retired conductor for the Katy Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. He and his companion Donna Snowden ran a Buy, Sell and Trade Business in Grove, Oklahoma and later moved to Altamont. She preceded him in death in November of 2008. Raymond spent 16 winters in Arizona doing swap meets. He loved buying, selling and trading antiques and collectibles. He was a life member of the Brown-Bishop Post # 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars. 

Surviving are four children, Raymond Baker, Jr. and wife Tina, of Parsons, William Baker and wife, Peggy, of Pittsburg, Connie Journot and husband Bill, of Independence and Barbara Morrison and husband Jim, of Weatherford, Texas; 10 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister. 

Services will be at 2 p.m., Wednesday, at the Oakhill Cemetery in Chetopa, with Angie Knight officiating. Military honors will be given by the Brown-Bishop Post # 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars. The family will receive friends at the Carson-Wall Funeral Home from 7 to 8 p.m., Tuesday. They request that, in lieu of flowers, memorials be given to the Robert J. Dole Veterans Administration Medical Center Hospice Unit, 5500 E. Kellogg Drive, Wichita, KS 67218. They may also be left at the funeral home or sent to Box 942, Parsons, KS 67357. Online messages may be sent to www.wallfuneralservices.com.