Annabel Baugher, 90, ended life on earth at Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City at 7:25 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, from complications of a stroke.
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Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 in the Galt Baptist Church with visitation the hour before the service. The Rev Gene Schreffler will officiate. Burial will be in the Half Rock Cemetery.
There will also be a family visitation from 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 at the Payne Funeral Home in Galt.
Imogene Annabel Baker was born on April 1, 1921, in rural Sullivan County, the daughter of Nelson Miles (N.M.) and Thelma Pickens Baker. On May 18, 1940, she married in Princeton to Dale Baugher, her husband of 51 years until his death in 1992. In 1942 they purchased a farm in the Half Rock community, where they spent the rest of their life together. In 2009, she moved to Trenton after 67 years on the farm.
She spent her formative years enjoying life on farms in the Yellow Creek community south of Green City. Her education began in the rural schools of the area and continued at the Milan High School where she graduated in 1940. She remained a student the rest of her life as an avid reader, trying new challenges and traveling. She was taught to sew and crochet by her mother and later taught herself to knit and quilt. Initially she sewed to clothe her family and later handquilted for competition and to leave heirlooms to her family. She received recognition for her handquilting at local events, state fairs and the American Quilters Society in Paducah, KY. She participated in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Shakespearian Society and community clubs.
Her Christian life began early at the Yellow Creek Baptist Church. After being married, she became a member of the Half Rock Baptist Church and later transferred to the Galt Baptist Church. She was a Sunday School teacher, worked in Vacation Bible Schools and served and held offices in the Women’s Missionary Union.
Survivors include two sons: Vance and Jackie of New London and Loren and Linda of Galt; four grandchildren, Vonda and Dana Schnelle of Lee’s Summit, Vickie and Steve Phipps of Clever, Greg and Molly Baugher of Hannibal and Laura and Roy Don Cox of Hannibal; two great-grandsons, Daniel Schnelle and Hunter Phipps; four sisters, Martha Sterling and Katherine Ralls of Trenton, Marjorie and John Troy of Parsons, KS and Mary Oothout of Des Moines, IA.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; three brothers, Amil, Dick and Eddie; a granddaughter, Louisa Marie Baugher; and a great-grandson, Seth Davidson Schnelle.
The family suggests contributions to the Galt Baptist Church or the Half Rock Cemetery in her memory.
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