Mary Donnan Baker was born in Coraopolis, PA on December 17, 1935, to Hugh and Isabella Cairney Donnan. Shortly thereafter her family moved to Edgeworth where she attended The Edgeworth School. She graduated from Sewickley High School in 1953. Throughout her youth Mary was an active member of the Sewickley United Presbyterian Church and played the clarinet in the Sewickley High School Band. Mary attended Allegheny College where she met her future husband and graduated with a BS from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing in 1958.
Mary married Frank Tracy Baker from Kittanning, PA, in 1958, at the Sewickley United Presbyterian Church and became a public health nurse for the City of Philadelphia. After moving to Willingboro, NJ, she became an instructor of practical nursing Lower Bucks County Technical School. Frank and Mary were charter members of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Levittown/Willingboro, NJ.
They moved to Elderton in 1966, where Mary worked for Family Counseling as a traveling psychiatric nurse, and she was active at St. John's Lutheran Church, Kittanning with choir, social ministry committee, Sunday School, and the women's circle.
While in Morgantown, WV, she was on the faculty of the West Virginia University School of Nursing as a supervisor of the visiting psychiatric nursing trainees.
After hurricane Agnes (1972), realizing that people were waiting weeks to find out whether their water was safe to drink, Mary and Frank, along with Robert and Sheila Alico, formed the EcoTech lab for water testing in 1973. Mary was the Office Manager for over 30 years.
Mary's volunteering and philanthropy grew out of a deep belief in the Golden Rule. Mary served on the Health Systems Agency for Regional Comprehensive Health Planning activities. She volunteered with Habitat for Humanity through mission trips to Haiti, home builds with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, and a family build in Coahoma, MS. She also helped to establish local chapters of Habitat for Humanity in Armstrong County, Indiana County, and the IUP campus. In 2015, Frank and Mary were the recipients of the Lutheran SeniorLife Excellence is Ageless award for exemplifying Lutheran SeniorLife's philosophy of Abundant Life and inspiring others through lifelong achievement and excellence.
Mary developed a close loving and life-long relationship with each of her children and grandchildren in addition to many life-long relationships with family, friends and colleagues throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Mary is survived by her husband, Frank Tracy Baker, PhD; her son Tracy Allen Baker, P.E. and his wife Lillith; her son Douglas Hugh Baker, PhD and his wife Julie Richter, PhD; and her daughter The Rev. Kathleen Jean Baker, STM and her husband The Rev. Joel Petruschke, ThD. Mary is also survived by her seven grandchildren (Nathan, Victoria, Cassie, Mary, Susannah, Charlotte, and Jonah); her sister Elizabeth Donnan Minter; and first cousins in Houston, TX, Australia, and Northern Ireland.
Mary was preceded in death by her brother John Cairney Donnan (2007).
Bauer Funeral Home, Kittanning, Pa
Mary married Frank Tracy Baker from Kittanning, PA, in 1958, at the Sewickley United Presbyterian Church and became a public health nurse for the City of Philadelphia. After moving to Willingboro, NJ, she became an instructor of practical nursing Lower Bucks County Technical School. Frank and Mary were charter members of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Levittown/Willingboro, NJ.
They moved to Elderton in 1966, where Mary worked for Family Counseling as a traveling psychiatric nurse, and she was active at St. John's Lutheran Church, Kittanning with choir, social ministry committee, Sunday School, and the women's circle.
While in Morgantown, WV, she was on the faculty of the West Virginia University School of Nursing as a supervisor of the visiting psychiatric nursing trainees.
After hurricane Agnes (1972), realizing that people were waiting weeks to find out whether their water was safe to drink, Mary and Frank, along with Robert and Sheila Alico, formed the EcoTech lab for water testing in 1973. Mary was the Office Manager for over 30 years.
Mary's volunteering and philanthropy grew out of a deep belief in the Golden Rule. Mary served on the Health Systems Agency for Regional Comprehensive Health Planning activities. She volunteered with Habitat for Humanity through mission trips to Haiti, home builds with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, and a family build in Coahoma, MS. She also helped to establish local chapters of Habitat for Humanity in Armstrong County, Indiana County, and the IUP campus. In 2015, Frank and Mary were the recipients of the Lutheran SeniorLife Excellence is Ageless award for exemplifying Lutheran SeniorLife's philosophy of Abundant Life and inspiring others through lifelong achievement and excellence.
Mary developed a close loving and life-long relationship with each of her children and grandchildren in addition to many life-long relationships with family, friends and colleagues throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Mary is survived by her husband, Frank Tracy Baker, PhD; her son Tracy Allen Baker, P.E. and his wife Lillith; her son Douglas Hugh Baker, PhD and his wife Julie Richter, PhD; and her daughter The Rev. Kathleen Jean Baker, STM and her husband The Rev. Joel Petruschke, ThD. Mary is also survived by her seven grandchildren (Nathan, Victoria, Cassie, Mary, Susannah, Charlotte, and Jonah); her sister Elizabeth Donnan Minter; and first cousins in Houston, TX, Australia, and Northern Ireland.
Mary was preceded in death by her brother John Cairney Donnan (2007).
Bauer Funeral Home, Kittanning, Pa
Mary Donnan Baker was born in Coraopolis, PA on December 17, 1935, to Hugh and Isabella Cairney Donnan. Shortly thereafter her family moved to Edgeworth where she attended The Edgeworth School. She graduated from Sewickley High School in 1953. Throughout her youth Mary was an active member of the Sewickley United Presbyterian Church and played the clarinet in the Sewickley High School Band. Mary attended Allegheny College where she met her future husband and graduated with a BS from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing in 1958.
Mary married Frank Tracy Baker from Kittanning, PA, in 1958, at the Sewickley United Presbyterian Church and became a public health nurse for the City of Philadelphia. After moving to Willingboro, NJ, she became an instructor of practical nursing Lower Bucks County Technical School. Frank and Mary were charter members of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Levittown/Willingboro, NJ.
They moved to Elderton in 1966, where Mary worked for Family Counseling as a traveling psychiatric nurse, and she was active at St. John's Lutheran Church, Kittanning with choir, social ministry committee, Sunday School, and the women's circle.
While in Morgantown, WV, she was on the faculty of the West Virginia University School of Nursing as a supervisor of the visiting psychiatric nursing trainees.
After hurricane Agnes (1972), realizing that people were waiting weeks to find out whether their water was safe to drink, Mary and Frank, along with Robert and Sheila Alico, formed the EcoTech lab for water testing in 1973. Mary was the Office Manager for over 30 years.
Mary's volunteering and philanthropy grew out of a deep belief in the Golden Rule. Mary served on the Health Systems Agency for Regional Comprehensive Health Planning activities. She volunteered with Habitat for Humanity through mission trips to Haiti, home builds with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, and a family build in Coahoma, MS. She also helped to establish local chapters of Habitat for Humanity in Armstrong County, Indiana County, and the IUP campus. In 2015, Frank and Mary were the recipients of the Lutheran SeniorLife Excellence is Ageless award for exemplifying Lutheran SeniorLife's philosophy of Abundant Life and inspiring others through lifelong achievement and excellence.
Mary developed a close loving and life-long relationship with each of her children and grandchildren in addition to many life-long relationships with family, friends and colleagues throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Mary is survived by her husband, Frank Tracy Baker, PhD; her son Tracy Allen Baker, P.E. and his wife Lillith; her son Douglas Hugh Baker, PhD and his wife Julie Richter, PhD; and her daughter The Rev. Kathleen Jean Baker, STM and her husband The Rev. Joel Petruschke, ThD. Mary is also survived by her seven grandchildren (Nathan, Victoria, Cassie, Mary, Susannah, Charlotte, and Jonah); her sister Elizabeth Donnan Minter; and first cousins in Houston, TX, Australia, and Northern Ireland.
Mary was preceded in death by her brother John Cairney Donnan (2007).
Bauer Funeral Home, Kittanning, Pa
Mary married Frank Tracy Baker from Kittanning, PA, in 1958, at the Sewickley United Presbyterian Church and became a public health nurse for the City of Philadelphia. After moving to Willingboro, NJ, she became an instructor of practical nursing Lower Bucks County Technical School. Frank and Mary were charter members of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Levittown/Willingboro, NJ.
They moved to Elderton in 1966, where Mary worked for Family Counseling as a traveling psychiatric nurse, and she was active at St. John's Lutheran Church, Kittanning with choir, social ministry committee, Sunday School, and the women's circle.
While in Morgantown, WV, she was on the faculty of the West Virginia University School of Nursing as a supervisor of the visiting psychiatric nursing trainees.
After hurricane Agnes (1972), realizing that people were waiting weeks to find out whether their water was safe to drink, Mary and Frank, along with Robert and Sheila Alico, formed the EcoTech lab for water testing in 1973. Mary was the Office Manager for over 30 years.
Mary's volunteering and philanthropy grew out of a deep belief in the Golden Rule. Mary served on the Health Systems Agency for Regional Comprehensive Health Planning activities. She volunteered with Habitat for Humanity through mission trips to Haiti, home builds with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, and a family build in Coahoma, MS. She also helped to establish local chapters of Habitat for Humanity in Armstrong County, Indiana County, and the IUP campus. In 2015, Frank and Mary were the recipients of the Lutheran SeniorLife Excellence is Ageless award for exemplifying Lutheran SeniorLife's philosophy of Abundant Life and inspiring others through lifelong achievement and excellence.
Mary developed a close loving and life-long relationship with each of her children and grandchildren in addition to many life-long relationships with family, friends and colleagues throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Mary is survived by her husband, Frank Tracy Baker, PhD; her son Tracy Allen Baker, P.E. and his wife Lillith; her son Douglas Hugh Baker, PhD and his wife Julie Richter, PhD; and her daughter The Rev. Kathleen Jean Baker, STM and her husband The Rev. Joel Petruschke, ThD. Mary is also survived by her seven grandchildren (Nathan, Victoria, Cassie, Mary, Susannah, Charlotte, and Jonah); her sister Elizabeth Donnan Minter; and first cousins in Houston, TX, Australia, and Northern Ireland.
Mary was preceded in death by her brother John Cairney Donnan (2007).
Bauer Funeral Home, Kittanning, Pa
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