Lois Lydia Baker

19 September 1902–15 December 1984 (Age 82)
American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Lois Lydia

When Lois Lydia Baker was born on 19 September 1902, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, her father, Stephen Thompson Baker, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Abel, was 34. She married Merrick Edward Sigismund Munger on 3 June 1929, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in San Francisco, California, United States in 1930 and World in 1940. She died on 15 December 1984, in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

Merrick Edward Sigismund Munger
1893–1967
Lois Lydia Baker
1902–1984
Marriage: 3 June 1929
Geraldine Lois Munger
1930–1993
Edward Stephen Munger
1938–2014
Severin Lawrence Munger
1939–2017

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    3 June 1929Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
    Age 1
    A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
    1911 · People's State Bank of American Fork
    Age 9
    The People’s State Bank of American Fork was built in 1911. The Bank of American Fork operated out of the two story, classical revival building until the Great Depression, when the Consolidated Holding Company took over. The building still stands and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 
    1927
    Age 25
    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    Name Meaning

    English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller . Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.Americanized form (translation into English) of surnames meaning ‘baker’, for example Dutch Bakker , German Becker and Beck , French Boulanger and Bélanger (see Belanger ), Czech Pekař, Slovak Pekár, and Croatian Pekar .History: Baker was established as an early immigrant surname in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Miller
    Baxter

    Sources (18)

    • Lois Baker Munger in household of Merrick E Munger, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
    • Lois Baker in entry for Harlan Le Roy Mc Lain, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968"
    • Lois Baker Munger in household of Merrick E Munger, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"

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