Claire and Elinor Baker

Clarie Edward Baker was born on August 27, 1906 in View Clark County Washington to parents George Baker (1881-1930) and Ethel Adele Davis (1881-1964). He had siblings Edna Mariorie Baker (1908-1996), Orville George Baker (1910-1959), James Irvin Baker (1914-1975), Russell Wayne Baker (1916-1958), Iris Ethel Baker (1920-), and Vernon Ross Baker (1927-1956). On January 25, 1936 he married Elinor Verona Klineline (1917–2003) in Clark, Washington. The couple had two children together. Claire & Elinor moved to Long Beach, Washington, from Vancouver, Washington, in 1947, purchasing an oceanfront travel court they named Trade Winds Cottages, previously known as McFadden Flats. He began a new position with Pacific County PUD #2, while also helping Elinor run the cottages which they both loved. They sold the cottages in 1970, in preparation for his retirement from the PUD, in 1971, when they would both retire. They moved a few blocks inland & he put in a large vegetable garden, which he loved & worked in every day for over 15 years; also, repairing various appliances in the garage he built, until Parkinson's Disease made it impossible.

Elinor Verona (Klineline) Baker of Long Beach, Pacific County, WA was born on November 11, 1917 at Missoula, Montana to Harry Bryan Klineline and Zella (Grabeel) Klineline. She had siblings Harry "Jack" Klineline, Erva Louise (Klineline) Van Fleet, and Eloise Billie (Klineline) Pierce. She married Claire Baker, and had children Jean Ann Newman and Monty Edward Baker. Elinor Baker died at age 86 years old on December 19, 2003 at Kent, Washington in Kent, King County, and was buried in 2004 at Ashes scattered over the beach. in Long Beach, Pacific County.