Obituary

Ommie Baker
Palestine Herald Press - September 23, 2002

Services for Ommie Baker, 73, of Lubbock, was held at 2 p.m. today at Providence
Baptist Church with the Rev. Jesse Johnson officiating. Burial was to follow at
Jimmerson Quarters Cemetery in Tennessee Colony under the direction of Ossie
Curry Funeral Home of Lubbock. Local arrangements are being handled by Davis
Funeral Home of Palestine. Mrs. Baker died Sept. 18 in Lubbock. She was born
Sept. 20, 1928, in Anderson County. Mrs. Baker lived in Lubbock for 17 years,
coming from Seminole. She attended Providence School in Anderson County. She
was a Baptist. She married A.C. Baker Sr. in January 1945. Mrs. Baker was
preceded in death by her husband on May 5, 1992. She is survived by her mother,
Eliza Hamilton of Lancaster; sons, A.C. Baker Jr. and Theressie Baker, both of
Arlington, and Howard Baker of Austin; daughters, Beverly Chatman of Amarillo,
Brenda Young of Alexandria and Shelia Hawthorne of Irving; sisters, Jackie
Gavon of Houston, and Maudie Ellis and Annie Langford, both of Dallas; 11
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.