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The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., February 4, 1982, page 5

JAEKEL

Zilda Baker Jaekel, 69, died Jan. 30, 1982 at Pullman, Washington. She was born to Joe and Florence Dashney Baker. Her father died when she was a small child.
She completed her first four grades of elementary school in The Dalles, then moved to the Centerville area with her mother, who had married August T. Jackel, a farmer in that area.
Miss Baker received her first teaching certificate from the Washington State Normal School at Bellingham. She began her long career in education by teaching first at Chamberlien Flat, a one room school, in 1932. Except for time out to get her masters degree in education from the University of Washington, she taught continuously until her retirement from the Pullman elementary system, where she had spent most of her career. While teaching at Pullman she married John Albert Jaekel, a member of the State University faculty.
She was preceded in death by her husband John.
Mrs. Jaekel was an active member of St. James Episcopal Church in Pullman and was an honorary member of Delta Gama.

The Pullman Herald, Pullman, WA., February 3, 1982, page 3

ZILDA JAEKEL DIES

Funeral services were conducted today for Zilda Jaekel, 69, a retired school teacher, who died Saturday in Pullman Memorial Hospital.
The Rev. Armand Larive, pastor of St. James Church, officiated at the rites conducted at the Centerville Cemetery. A memorial service will be conducted at 7 p.m. Thursday in St. James Church.
She was the widow of John A. Jaekel, a retired Washington State University research metallurgist who died in 1976.
She was born April 21, 1912, at the Dalles, Ore., the daughter of Joseph and Florence Baker. She graduated from high school at Goldendale, and received a degree from the University of Washington at Seattle.
She taught in Seattle until her marriage Aug. 5, 1956, at The Dalles. She taught at Pullman until her husband's health began to fail and she retired to take care of him.
She was a member of St. James Episcopal Church at Pullman and was president of the Clearwater deanery. She was also a member of Alpha Omicron Pi and Delta Kappa Gamma sororities, the Pullman Women's Golf Club, the American Association of University Women, the National Association of Republican Women and the Whitman County Retired Teachers Association. She also had been active in the Friends of the Art Museum at WSU.
Relatives have suggested any memorials may be to St. James.
Kimball Funeral Home, Pullman, is in charge of arrangements.