Individual Details

Death

Neva Baker age 96 died Saturday July 16, 2016 at the Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following a brief illness.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 Saturday morning, July 23, 2016 at S.S. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church rural Monticello. Interment will be in the Oakwood Cemetery. Rev. Paul Finger will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 4 until 7 Friday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. 

Surviving are 2 children, Vianna (Kenny) Horstman, Hopkinton, James (Karen) Baker, Central City, 8 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren and 4 great-great-grandchildren. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband James, 2 brothers and 3 sisters.

Neva Eiben was born March 7, 1920 near Prairieburg, Iowa. She was the daughter of John and Louise Rohn, Eiben. She attended the rural schools near her home and completed her education in the Hopkinton and Monticello Community schools. 

Neva Eiben and James O. Baker were married September 5, 1939 at Monticello, Iowa.

The couple lived in Anamosa for several years and Neva worked at the Anamosa Hospital. They later farmed for over 30 years near Central City. Neva worked at Collins Radio during that time as well. 

In 1980 they retired and moved to Missouri to hunt, fish and attend Flea Markets all over the south. They moved back to the Central City area in 1995. 

Neva operated two different Antique Flea Market Stores one in Prairieburg and one in Central City. She was also a Watkins Representative for several years. In her spare time she loved to quilt and crochet.