Independent Enterprise
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Alta Lee Baer, 81 of Payette, slipped away peacefully Wednesday, May 21, 2003. Graveside services were held Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at Riverside Cemetery, Payette, under the direction of Shaffer-Jensen Memory Chapel, Payette.
Alta was born June 21, 1921, to James T. and Maggie (Miller) Brown in Fruitland. She and her family lived in various places in the Payette area. She quit school after her mother died to help raise her little brothers and sisters. She married Leonard Baer May 5, 1945 at Oakland, Calif. Being a Navy wife took her to San Diego, Long Beach, San Francisco, Astoria, Ore., Coronado, Bremerton, Wash. and finally back to Payette in 1958 where she and Leonard have spent their lives in the house where Leonard was born. Alta and Leonard took many trips and she also enjoyed just short drives around the Payette area. She worked many summers at American Fine Foods. She gave many hours of her time to the Jobs Daughters Bethel #5 and belonged to the Emblem Club in Ontario.
She is survived by her husband, Leonard, of Payette; her son, Ken Baer; her daughter Sharon Worley, and husband, Tom Worley of Payette; four grandchildren, Andy Baer and Jenni Baer of Boise; Amy Worley and Tom Worley of Payette; three sisters, Edna Saxton of Cody, Wyo.; Margaret Hagler of Olympia, Wash.; Dorothy Golden of Boise; two brothers and their wives, Frank and Irene Brown of Port Ludlow, Wash.; Don and Jane Brown of Burley.
