Stories from Saturday, December 25, 2021

BERTRAND, Mo. — Martha Jane Slaten Baker, age 89, died Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, at the Bertrand Nursing Center and Rehab Center. Martha Jane was born in Wyatt, Missouri, on April 5, 1932, to the late Edgar Roy Slaten and Myrtle Kemp Slaten. The family later moved to Charleston, Missouri, where Martha Jane graduated from Charleston High School in 1949...