Private graveside service for SSG (Retired) Clifford James Baker will be at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, May 13, 2021 at Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma with Rev. Don Barnes and Rev. Gary Pratt, of Lawton First Assembly officiating.

Burial with full military honors will be under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

SSG (Retired) Clifford James Baker, 86, Lawton passed away Wednesday, May 5, 2021 in Lawton.  He was born November 14, 1934 in McCamey, Texas to Clifford Jack and Carrie Oneita (Jameson) Baker.  Sergeant Baker joined the United States Army on December 15, 1953 and retired August 31, 1972.  He earned the Bronze Star Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Army of Occupation Medal (Berlin, Germany), the Republic of Vietnam Nam Campaign Medal with 60- device, 2 Overseas Service Bars, the Good Conduct Medal-2 ^nd Award and the Marksmanship Medal-Rifle.  He married Ursula M. Leeck on February 21, 1959 in Berlin, Germany.  She passed away September 17, 1990.  He then married Sharon Marie.  She passed away January 19, 2011.

Sergeant Baker is survived by his son Andy Baker and wife Jacquelyn, two granddaughters; Andrea Elaine Kulsrud and husband Zac, Jennifer Ann Baker, two great grandchildren; Sylvia Kulsrud and Emerson Kulsrud, his sister Mildred Salazar and Ronnie's fiancé, Melissa Eggeling.

He is preceded in death by his parents, his two wives, and his son Ronnie Dave Baker in 2020.