|
| |
Audrey Claudine Baker Rider © Enid News and Eagle 12-21-2016 Submitted by: Glenn
|
The funeral service celebrating the life of Audrey Claudine Baker Rider is 10 a.m. Thursday Dec. 22, 2016, in the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel, with Retired Chaplin Paul Rider presiding. Burial is at 12 p.m. in the Garrison Cemetery, Dacoma, under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Burial is 12 p.m. in the Garrison Cemetery, Dacoma, under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
She was born Dec. 29, 1924, east of Dacoma, in Alfalfa County, to Kenneth Iverson Baker and Florence Viola (Peak) Baker, and died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. She attended Mt. Zion Rural School and graduated from Dacoma High School in 1942. She attended the American Business College in Wichita, Kan., worked three years at the ACS office in Cherokee, 13 years as Deputy Court Clerk of Woods County in Alva, and was elected County Clerk of Woods County in 1960. She was elected President of the Oklahoma County Clerk's Association that same year. She graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree, and from the University of Nebraska with a master's degree in education.
She was active in the Dacoma EUB church where she was SS Supt., taught classes in Sunday School and the Youth Fellowship, and was Lay Representative to the Annual Conference several times. At the time of her death, she was a member of Willow View United Methodist Church, Enid. She married John Allen Rider July 16,1961, at Dacoma, and they lived in various states, where she taught school and was a homemaker.
She is survived by her husband John Allen Rider, of the home; a daughter, Michelle Brown and her husband, Edward Brown, of Woodway, Texas; a son, J. Allen Rider III and his wife, Kelli, of College Grove, Tenn.; grandchildren, William Andrew Brown, Catherine Ann Brown, Lauren ?Alexis Brown, of Woodway, Texas; Hannah Abigail Rider and John Allen Rider IV, of College Grove, Tenn.; and other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Deverl Baker; a niece, La Donna Farrell; and a nephew, Kenneth O. Baker. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Northwestern Foundation, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, with Brown-Cummings serving as custodian of funds.
Condolences may be made online at www.Brown-Cummings.com.
|Alfalfa County Page| |Home|
This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without consent.
All rights reserved! Commercial use of material within this site is prohibited!
© 2000-2024 Oklahoma CemeteriesThe information on this site is provided free for the purpose of researching your genealogy. This material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, for your own research, as long as this message remains on all copied material. The information contained in this site may not be copied to any other site without written "snail-mail" permission. If you wish to have a copy of a donor's material, you must have their permission. All information found on these pages is under copyright of Oklahoma Cemeteries. This is to protect any and all information donated. The original submitter or source of the information will retain their copyright. Unless otherwise stated, any donated material is given to Oklahoma Cemeteries to make it available online. This material will always be available at no cost, it will always remain free to the researcher.