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WAITSBURG - Former Times Publisher Tom Baker, passed away at Booker Rest Home Monday afternoon. He was 86.

Baker co-owned The Times with his wife, Anita, from 1964 to 1991 and served as the paper’s editor and publisher during those years.

Civic-minded Baker also served as the town’s mayor and actively participated in Commercial Club, Lions Club, and the Presbyterian Church, among others.

For years, he wrote a personal column titled “TOMfoolery.” He bids his Waitsburg friends and family a personal good-bye in his final “TOMfoolery” column on Page 4.

A more detailed tribute to Baker will be included in next week’s issue of The Times.