Charles Ted Baker is buried at Neon

Charles Ted Baker died May 31 at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital. He was 67 years old.

Born in Letcher County, he was a son of the late Charlie and Gracie Short Baker. He was the father of the late Jeffrey Lynn Baker, and the great-grandfather of the late Eric Hammonds.

He was married to the late Mary Katherine Baker and later married the late Meldia Slone Baker. he was a member of the Neon Pentecostal Church and had worked for the Kentucky Division of Forestry for 19 years and as a school bus driver for the Jenkins Head Start.

Surviving are two sons, Charles Michael Baker and wife Kimberly, Whitesburg, and John Dewayne Baker, Neon; a daughter, Geneva Ann Sandlin and husband Charlie, Mallie; a brother, Douglas Baker, Whitesburg; two sisters, Bonnie Thomas, Pippa Passes, and Anna Johnson, Neon; 11 grandchildren, April Hammonds, Crissy Slone, Kimberly Hogg, Jeremy Wright, Cory Baker, Bobbie Baker, Jonnie Baker, Adriene Baker, John Dewayne Baker II, Megan Baker, and Dalton Bailey; and a great-granddaughter, Alissa Brianne Hogg.

Funeral services were held June 2 at Everidge Funeral Home. Burial was in the Neon Community Cemetery.