By: frankieb (Diary)  |  December 5th at 10:42 AM  | 

My husband, Vincent E. Baker, landed on Omaha Beach on D-day and fought as a forward artillery observer through VE-Day. Even then he didn’t get to come home because he was appointed military mayor of Reid, Austria. Anyway, here’s a link to a story about a mystery that I played a very small part in solving. Enjoy! http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/24/3286566/unexpected-phone-call-pleases.html If you’d like to see a photo | Read More »

By: frankieb (Diary)  |  March 21st at 11:06 AM  | 

Let me start by saying that I hold Power of Attorney for my surrogate aunt – a woman I’ll call Mary. Mary and my mother became friends in 1938 and, before she died in 2000, my mother asked me to look after Mary in her stead. That said, Mary now has an encroaching case of dementia, lives in a nursing home, and is a Medicaid recipient. Mary needed dentures a little over a year | Read More »