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- Daily Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) - September 1, 2000
NEFF Everett Baker, M.D., age 88, of Oklahoma City, died August 30th, after a long illness. He was born on December 17, 1911 to Fred G. & Ethel Baker Neff. Educated in OKC, he continued his education by earning his M.D. in 1936 at The University of Oklahoma. He specialized in Abdominal Surgery after serving with the 21st Evacuation Hospital in the South Pacific in WW II. After 16 years in private practice in OKC, he joined the Veterans Administration in 1960, in Los Angeles. He transferred to the V.A. Hospital in Muskogee, Oklahoma in the mid-1960's and stayed until his retirement at age 70. He was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and certified by the American Board of Surgery. He moved to OKC in 1991 to be closer to his family. He was preceded in death by his brother Kendrick, sister Margaret Jackson Logan, wife, Ruth Bell Neff and second wife, Jacqueline Burks Neff and eldest son Everett Richard Neff. He is survived by his son, Gerald David Neff; 5 grandchildren; 2 step grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Services at the chapel in the Town Center building at Fountains of Canterbury will be held at 10:00 a.m. on September 1, 2000, followed by graveside services at 1:30 p.m. on the same day at Memorial Park Mausoleum in West Muskogee. Donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association are suggested in lieu of flowers.
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