Charlene Marie Baker, age 86, of Scranton, IA, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 5, 2026 at Unity Point – Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines surrounded by family.<\/p>\n
Funeral services will be held at the Scranton United Methodist Church at 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, July 9, 2026 with Rev. Kevin Evers officiating. Casket bearers will be Kyle Baker, Michael Jenkins, Megan Jenkins, Sam Baker, Emily Baker, and Jon Baker. Burial will be in the Scranton Township Cemetery.<\/p>\n
Visitation will be held at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Scranton on Wednesday from 5-7 P.M. The casket will be moved to the Scranton United Methodist Church at 9:30 A.M. on Thursday where visitation will resume until 10:15 A.M. prior to the service.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested for a later designation.<\/p>\n
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Scranton and online condolences may be left for the family at www.dahnandwoodhouse.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlene Marie Baker, age 86, of Scranton, IA, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 5, 2026 at Unity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-237136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}