JOSEPH BAKER, SR. Obituary: Terrebonne Parish, La.

Submitted by: Nancy Wright

Source: Houma Courier, Houma, Terrebonne Parish, La.

2 Feb 2006

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Sunday, September 4, 2005

Joseph Baker

Joseph Thomas Baker Sr., 69, a native of Terrebonne Parish and resident of 
Houma, died at 4:04 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, 2005.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to funeral time Monday at Plymouth Rock Baptist 
Church.  Funeral services will be at noon at the church, with burial at Union 
Benevolent Cemetery.

He is survived by his wife, Carrie A. Robinson Baker; two sons, Joseph T. Baker 
and wife Kendra, of Houma and Lance K. Jackson of Houma; three daughters, Genece 
D. Baker of Houma, Gena A. Theriot and husband, Frederick, and Shawanna Nixon 
and husband, Cassius; two brothers, Kerry Poole of San Francisco and Jewroyal 
Poole of Denver; five sisters, Mary Roland and husband, James of Seattle, Clara 
Thurman and husband, Willard of Dayton, Ohio, and Charlotte Harding, Mary Felton 
and Ethel Robinson, all of Houma; and 11 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Samuel Baker, Pacheana Hartman Poole 
and Samuel Poole; one brother, Earl Jerome Baker; and two sisters, Carrie Poole 
and Merlene Poole Robinson.

He was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War.

He was retired from Texaco and the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government.