August 31, 1923
Arlington, WA
Died:
November 14, 1994
Bellingham, WA
Career
1938-39 Bellingham High School - Washington (High School)
1939-40 Bellingham High School - Washington (High School)
1940-41 Bellingham High School - Washington (High School)
1941-42 Fircrest Dairy- Bellingham, WA (Independent)
1947-48 Bellingham Fircrests (PCBL)
Born to Cecil and Grace Baker, Jack was a basketball and ran track at Bellingham High School. He attended Western Washington College before enlisting in the U.S Navy to serve the country in World War 2. After serving in the South Pacific, he returned home where he would play basketball for the Bellingham Fircrests in 1947-48. He would become a fireman in Bellingham, and after 19 years became Fire Chief, a job he held for 12 years until retiring in 1978. He died in 1994.
Jack married Irene Chetwood in 1947 and they had two sons and a daughter. 
Source:
Bellingham Herald, November 14, 1994
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