Bertha Alma Baker

Bertha Alma Baker, 93, residing in Orange Park, FL, passed away peacefully after a short debilitating injury and illness. She was born April 24, 1920, in Cost, TX, to Willie and Helen (Wefer) Rossow. She married James Woodrow Baker on March 15, 1947.

Bertha grew up in the Lutheran faith and was steadfast in her Christian walk until she drew her last breath. Church and family were most important to her in life and she continued to live for twenty years after the loss of her husband. She moved to Orange Park, FL where she lived with her daughter and son-in-law for the last four years of her life. She loved to work in her flower gardens and loved the outdoors. She always had such a beautiful yard and continued to garden until her health would no longer allow. She was a wonderful wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister and aunt to everyone who knew her. She will be greatly missed by the lives she touched while here on earth but the Heavens’ are rejoicing for another child of God is now home.

She is survived by one daughter, Debra Jean (Bernard) Van Matre of Orange Park, FL; two sisters, Esther (Jack) Juengermann of Ft. Worth, TX; Nora Arhelger of DeSoto, TX; one granddaughter, Heather Dawn Micham; one great-grandson, Paul Baker Micham; numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

She is preceded in death by her husband, James Woodrow Baker; parents, Willie and Helen Rossow; brothers John Rossow and George Rossow; and sisters Alma Rossow and Lillie Dullnig.

Visitation was on Friday, April 25, 2014 at Memory Gardens Funeral Home Corpus Christi, Texas from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Funeral Service was held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at Memory Gardens Funeral Home Corpus Christi, Texas with Rev. Patsy Koeneke officiating. Interment will immediately follow at Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Don Rossow, Mike Rossow, Greg Miller, Mike Miller, Rick Satsky and Kirk Tumlinson.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Custead Care Center/Haven Hospice, 745 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park, FL, 904-213-2506.