Extracted from The McComb Enterprise-Journal (McComb, MS)
Virginia Dale Baker
Virginia Dale Baker, 75, of Liberty, died Nov. 17, 2004, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center.
Services were at 1 p.m. Saturday at Christian Fellowship Church of Liberty, with the Rev. Ernest Whittington officiating. Burial was in Whittington Cemetery in Liberty. Brown Funeral Home in Liberty was in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Baker was born March 9, 1929, in Amite County. She was the daughter of Fred E. Whittington and Eliza Bass Whittington.
She was a homemaker and a member of Christian Fellowship Church in Liberty.
Mrs. Baker was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Harold Baker; and 11 brothers and sisters.
Survivors include one daughter, Linda B. Payne of New Roads, La.; one son, Harold David Baker of Liberty; four grandchildren, Gregory Dale Payne of St. Amant, La., Timothy Doyle Payne of Baton Rouge, La., Jenna Baker Yelverton of Baker, La., and Kayla Nicole Baker of Liberty; three great-grandchildren, Leslie Dale Payne, Douglas Baker Payne and Jordan Alexandra Payne; and three sisters, Vera Whittington and Hilda McKey, both of Liberty, and Evelyn Hutchinson of Hammond, La.
Pallbearers were Gregory Dale Payne, Timothy Doyle Payne, Eric Yelverton, Bobby Louis Dixon, Hugh Kelly and Michael Whittington.
Saturday, November 20, 2004