Chronology: Date 1968-01-01

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1968 1 or 2 Jan 196-	The passing of Euphemia (Effie) Eleanor Baker (b.25 March 1880 at Goldsborough, Victoria) in Waverley, New South Wales. For Effie Baker's obituary see BW14:320-1. She became a Bahá'í in 1922 after attending a lecture by Clara and Hyde Dunn in Melbourne. She was the first woman to converted to the Faith in Australia. She served in Haifa from 1925 to 1936. See SETPE1p105-107 for her contribution during that period. In the 1930s Effie Baker travelled to Persia to take photographs of historical sites. Many of these photographs were included in The Dawnbreakers. [BW14:320] Hear The Life of Effie Baker written and read by Sonjel Vreeland. She was buried in the Bahá'í Cemetery in Mona Vale. [Australian Dictionary of Biography]	Effie Baker; - In Memoriam; - Births and deaths; Cemeteries and graves; Dawn-Breakers (book); Waverly, New South Wales; New South Wales; Australia	first woman Baha'i in Australia.


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