Background
Nye, Miriam Maurine Baker was born on June 14, 1918 in Castana, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Horace Boies and Hazel Dean (Waples) Hawthorn.
Nye, Miriam Maurine Baker was born on June 14, 1918 in Castana, Iowa, United States. Daughter of Horace Boies and Hazel Dean (Waples) Hawthorn.
Bachelor, Morningside College, 1939. Postgraduate, Morningside College, 1957—1958. Postgraduate, University Arizona, 1973.
Postgraduate, U South Dakota, 1975—1977. Postgraduate, New College, University Edinburgh, 1974.
; children: Kent Alfred, Dale Hawthorn. Married second, John Arthur Nye, December 25, 1973 (deceased 1991). Teacher junior high school, Rock Falls, Illinois, 1939-1941, Moville (Iowa) Cmty.
School, 1957-1962, Woodbury Central Cmty.
School, Climbing Hill, Iowa, 1962-1964. Homemaking columnist Sioux City (Iowa) Journal"s Farm Weekly, 1953-1981.
Author: Recipes and Ideas From the Kitchen Window, 1973. But I Never Thought He"d Die: Practical Help for Widows, 1978.
Contributing author Between the Rivers: A History of the United Methodist Church in Iowa, 1986.
Speaker, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakot Counselor, Iowa State University, 1972. County advisory Iowa Children"s and Family Superior vena cava syndrome, 1980-1984. Member public relations committee Farm Bureau, Woodbury County, 1980-1982.
Advisor national organization for help to widows THEOS, Sioux City chapter, 1981-1990.
Lay delegate Iowa United Methodist Conference, 1981-1983. Member Archives History Commissionof Iowa Methodist Church, 1991.
Member public relations committee Farm Bureau, Woodbury County, 1980-1982. Member Archives History Commissionof Iowa Methodist Church, 1991. Member American Association of University Women, Iowa Federation Women"son
Married Carl E. Baker, June 21, 1941 (deceased 1970). Children: Kent Alfred, Dale Hawthorn. Married John Arthur Nye, December 25, 1973 (deceased 1991).