Clara Skeel

Clara Skeel¹

• Obituary (fix):   Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 01:39:54 -0700
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  Subject: [OREGON] obit of Clara Baker from scrapbook WW2 former mayors wife Portland,Ore.
  
  
  date during WW2 the date was torn off but back side of article mentions WPB
  controls in wartime
  
  George Baker's widow dead. Mrs Clara Skeel Baker 68 years widow of George
  Baker who was mayor of Portland from 1917 to 1933 died Friday at 9:35 pm at the
  Columbian hospital in Astoria after a attack of apoplexy. She had been admitted
  to the hospital about an hour earlier.She had been stricken in the late
  afternoon at her home at The Tides in Seaside which she and her late husband had
  owned since 1926. The Hughes-Ransom mortuary in Astoria took charge of the body
  which will be brought to Portland Monday for burial with Edward Holman & Son
  in charge of arrangements.
  She was born in New York state was the daughter of Myron W and Katherine
  Skeel who later came to Medford Ore to make their home. She was first married to
  Robert Galloway former Portland Attorney. After his death she became a
  secretary in the law offices of the late John M Logan leaving that postion to marry Mr
  Baker 7 Aug 1911. She was his third wife. Following Mr Baker's retirement as
  mayor in 1933 she went to Seaside to live and she and Mr Baker made their home
  there until his death in 1941.Since then she had stayed on the Tides to be
  near her brother-in-law and sister Mr and Mrs Paul A Scroggins who assisted her
  in its management. Mr and Mrs Scroggin and their son Major David V Scoggin who
  is with the Army in France are the only surviving relatives.
  
  Elaine [email protected], OR.¹

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• Related: Sister Sister of Doris Skeel.¹