Helen Naomi Baker

Helen Naomi Baker, 91, of Shelley, Idaho passed away Monday, September 29

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, 2014 at her home in Shelley.

She was born in Uvilla, West Virginia on May 20

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, 1923 to George Cooper Morrison and Virginia Butler Flood Morrison. She graduated from Shephardstown High School in 1941.

She married James Breece Baker in Charlestown, West Virginia that same year.

They moved from their home in Pennsylvania to Idaho in 1978 to be near their children and grandchildren. Our mother and grandmother was a kind, forgiving and spiritual person. She never had a harsh word toward anyone.

She held many positions in the LDS church including primary and visiting teaching.

She is survived by one sister, Jean Hoffman of Martinsburg, West Virginia, and her children, Kathryn Landon, James Robert, Gary Bryant and Douglas George Baker as well as sixteen grandchildren, twenty-three great-grandchildren and eighteen great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James, her parents, her brothers, Robert, Strother and Dudley Morrison, and sisters, Betty Jane, Elizabeth Maloney, Kathryn Houser and Charlotte Kidweller.

Graveside services will be held 1:00 P.M. Thursday, October 2, at the Shelley Hillcrest Cemetery. The family will meet with friends Thursday morning from 11:30 A.M. till 12:40 P.M. at Nalder Funeral Home (110 West Oak) in Shelley. Interment will be in the Shelley Hillcrest Cemetery