Gerald F. Baber Gerald F. Baber, 52, of 67 Lansing Ave., died today at 5:20 a.m. in a local hospital where he had been a patient for three days. Mr. Baber was stricken early in the week while laying track for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad in Lansing. He was brought back to Battle Creek by his foreman and placed in the hospital. Mr. Baber was born Oct. 15, 1913, in Chattanooga, Ohio, the son of Isaac and Cora (Butcher) Baber. For the past 12 years he has been employed in the track gang of Grand Trunk Western Railroad. Prior to that time he worked in construction in the Battle Creek area and was a member of the U.S. Merchant Marines. On July 30, 1961, he married Dorothy Cantrell. She survives, in addition to three children from a previous marriage, Mrs. Vern (Shirley) Thompson of Kalamazoo, Miss Mary Ann and Miss Brenda Baber of New York; a brother, Freeman Baber of Kalamazoo; a half - sister, Mrs. James (Betty) Shull of Phoenix, Ariz.; two half-brothers, Kenneth Markley of Newman, Calif., and Donald Markley of Kalama- zoo; a step-sister Mrs. George (Mildred) Mark of Marshall and one grandson.
