Rena Mae Smith

1894 - 1970  (75 years)

• Name	Rena Mae Smith
  Birth	10 Sep 1894	Lockney, Floyd, TX
  Gender	Female
  Census	10 Jan 1920	Lockney, Floyd, TX ; Rena, age 25, born TX, parents born LA/NE
  Census	12 Apr 1940	Lockney, Floyd, TX ; R Mae, age 45, born TX, gr6 ed, residing here in 1935
  Death	2 Jun 1970	Lubbock, Lubbock, TX
  Burial		Plainview Memorial Park, Plainview, TX
  Person ID	I15001	Family Tree
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Charles Walker Smith
  Mother	Emma Anna Mickey
  Family ID	F5635	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robin Baker,   b. 22 Feb 1894, Lockney, Floyd, TX d. 10 Dec 1965, Plainview, Hale, TX (Age 71 years)  [1]
  Marriage	31 Jan 1916	Lockney, Floyd, TX
  Children	+ 1. Guernes Robin Baker,   b. 10 Nov 1917, Lockney, Floyd, TX d. 30 Mar 1983, Plainview, Hale, TX (Age 65 years) + 2. Charles Artemas Baker,   b. 22 May 1922, Lockney, Floyd, TX 3. Elizabeth Ann Baker,   b. Sep 1923, Lockney, Floyd, TX
  Family ID	F5634	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2019

  
  

• Headstones

  Robin & Rena Mae (Smith) Baker Gravestone BAKER RENA MAE / SEPT. 10, 1894 / JUN 2, 1970 ROBIN / FEB. 22, 1894 / DEC. 10, 1965 MARRIED / JAN. 31, 1916 [located at Plainview Memorial Park, Plainview, Hale, TX] Plot: Block F Lot 125 Space 8

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal" (newspapers.com) Wreak Victim Rites Slated PLAINVIEW (Special) - Mrs. Robin Baker, 75, died Tuesday in the Lubbock hospital of injuries she suffered in a car-train crash May 26 near Lockney. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the 9th and Columbia Streets Church of Christ here with Kline Nall of Lubbock officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park under direction of Lemons Funeral Home. Mrs. Baker's death raises the South Plains traffic death toll to 46 this year as compared to 62 at his time in 1969. Mrs. Baker was alone when the mishap occurred where U.S. 70 crosses the railroad tracks about one half mile west of Lockney. Officials in Lockney said Mrs. Baker's auto plowed into the second car behind the engine of a Fort Worth and Denver Freight train. She was a native of Lockney. Survivors include two sons, G.R. Baker of Plainview and Dr. Charles A. Baker of Bethesda, Md.; a daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Willis of Grand Junction, Colo.; town brothers, Carl Smith of Canyon and Milton Smith of Mountain Air, N.M.; six sister, Mrs. Alma Holmes and Mrs Glenna Jackson, both of Floydada, Mrs. Laura Bedingfield adn Mrs. Maggie Tinnen, both of Truth or Consequences, N.M., Mrs. Fred Bradshaw of Wichita, Kan., and Mrs. Alice Smith of Amarillo; nine grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

  
  

• Sources

  [S187] Kathryne Baker Witty and Alma Baker Rea, The William Thatcher Baker family, 1830-1971, (self published (1971)).