MOUNTAIN HOME — Ruth “Sissy” Baker Czeschin,

passed away March 22nd, 2024, in Mountain Home, Ark., at the age of 88. She was born December 6, 1935, in Mountain Home, Ark., the daughter of Leo Francis “Frank” and Dorothy Lee (Robertson) Baker. She married Calvin Clinton Czeschin, Sr., on February 2nd, 1962, in Mountain Home, Ark. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Mountain Home.

Sissy was a graduate of Mountain Home High School and was a drum major in the Mountain Home Band. She attended the University of Arkansas, where she obtained her teaching degree. She was a life member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and the Arkansas Alumni Association.

After graduation, she moved to Michigan, where she taught elementary school for two years before returning home to Mountain Home to teach for one year at the Old Oakland Schoolhouse with Evelyn Hackler. In 1979, she returned to the classroom at the newly constructed Mountain Home Kindergarten, where she enjoyed teaching Mountain Home’s first-ever class of public school kindergarteners.

Sissy was a member of Club Cosmopolitan and was instrumental in establishing Mountain Home’s first city playground at Hickory Park. She was also a member of the Mountain Home Band Boosters and First United Methodist Women.

Sissy was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of almost 62 years; two brothers, Jerry Eugene Baker and Don Russell Baker; her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Charles Christie and Janet Nelson Czeschin.

She is survived by daughters, Sara Zimmerman of Mountain Home, Ark., and Karen (Matt) Reed of Eureka, Mo.; son, Clint Czeschin of Mountain Home, Ark.; stepdaughter, Betsie Czeschin of Cotter, Ark.; six grandchildren; Sloane Zimmerman of Houston, Texas, Richard Zimmerman, Jr. (Jenna) of Fayetteville, Ark., Haley Czeschin of Mountain Home, Anna Ruth Reed of Eureka, Mo., Trey Czeschin of Mountain Home, Ark., and Paige Reed of Eureka, Mo.; and one great-grandson, Zane Zimmerman of Fayetteville, Ark. She is also survived by sisters-in-law, Alice Baker and Shirley Baker; and nieces and nephews, Cindy, Chris, Frank, Leah Ann, Beth, Jenny, Amy and Jeri Ann.

Visitation will be held at the First United Methodist Church Friday, March 29th from 4-6 p.m. in the Contemporary Sanctuary. Funeral services will be held in the Main Sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church Saturday March 30th beginning at 2 p.m., with burial to follow at Mountain Home Cemetery. Chris Czeschin, Frank Czeschin, Rob Williams, Shawn Lane, Vernon Dewey and Satch Cheek serving as pallbearers.

Ted and Nancy Sanders, Dr. Greg Elders, Elizabeth and Kate Cheek, Bill and Donna Maxwell, Ava Brewer, Evelyn Denton, Mary Vount, Laurelye Lunday and Home Instead Staff, her friend Ava Brewer, the Staff at Good Samaritan Village, and all current and former employees of Yelcot Telephone Company, Mountain View Telephone Company, Ultimate Dealerships and Freedom Ford will serve as honorary pallbearers.

Memorials may be made to Mountain Home Bomber Band Boosters, P.O. Box 928, Mountain Home, Ark. 72654; First United Methodist Church, 605 West 6th Street, Mountain Home, Ark. 72653 or the Mountain Home Cemetery Endowment c/o Twin Lakes Community Foundation, P.O. Box 473, Mountain Home, Ark. 72653.