Joan Marie Baker

Female1931–26 January 1991

Brief Life History of Joan Marie

When Joan Marie Baker was born in 1931, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, Albert Bruce Baker, was 47 and her mother, Victoria Maria Boulanger, was 36. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Thomas Joseph McDonald. She died on 26 January 1991, in Bloomfield Hills, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Southfield, Oakland, Michigan, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Joseph McDonald
1930–2003
Joan Marie Baker
1931–1991
Thomas Albert McDonald
1958–2011
Mary Jane McDonald
1965–2020

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  • Joan M Baker in household of Bert Baker, "United States Census, 1940"

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1931

Age 0

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

1943 · The Detroit Race Riots

Age 12

The 1943 Detroit Race Riot started on the evening of June 20 and lasted through June 22. It occurred in a period of dramatic social tensions associated with the military buildup of World War II, as Detroit's automotive industry was converted to the war effort. What fueled the fire the most was the arrival of nearly 400,000 migrants, both African-American and White Southerners, and the competition for space and jobs. It was suppressed after 6,000 federal troops were ordered into the city to restore peace. A total of 34 people were killed, 25 of them African-Americans and most at the hands of white police or National Guardsmen; 433 were wounded, 75 percent of them African-American.

1947 · The Presidential Succession Act

Age 16

The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.

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.

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