WYATT -- Ben E. Baker, 72, of Oklahoma City, Okla., died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1991, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City.

He was born Feb. 25, 1919, at Wyatt, son of Bennie and Della Duncan Baker. He and Virginia Lee Bridges were married Dec. 8, 1941. She died Sept. 29, 1971. He later married Lou Haman Juden Jan. 3, 1987.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Richard Baker of Siloam Springs, Ark.; two daughters, Becky Russell of St. Louis, Lynn Hammerstone of St. Louis; his mother of Cape Girardeau; five stepsons, Andy Bill Juden of El Dorado, Kan., Bob Juden of Winfield, Kan., Terry Juden of Cincinnati, Ohio, Randy Juden of Aspen, Colo., Troy Juden of Arkansas City, Kan.; four stepdaughters, Nancy Jones of Arkansas City, Vicki Richardson of Cassville, Christi Andrews of Arkansas City, Tracy Adams of Oxford, Kan.; two brothers, Allan Baker of Independence, Jim Baker of Sikeston; two sisters, Frances Roelker of Osage Beach, Shirley Gibson of Cape Girardeau; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; 14 stepgrandchildren, and six great-stepgrandchildren.

Funeral service was held Saturday at Memorial Park Cemetery Chapel in St. Louis, with burial in the cemetery.