Nansemond County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Baker, Mary Phillips, 1944 

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MARY PHILLIPS BAKER

SUFFOLK CIVIC LEADER DIES

   Mrs. Mary Phillips Baker, 83, daughter of Dr. Edward G. Phillips and Mrs. 
Mary Matilda Riddick Phillips, and widow of Alexander Henderson Baker, died 
recently at the Episcopal Church Home, 356 West Princess Anne Road, following 
a long illness.

   Mrs. Baker was a resident of Suffolk for many years, having spent the past 
few years in Norfolk.  She was born at Green Level, Nansemond County, in 1861.

   She was a pioneer in cultural and philanthropic work in Suffolk, having 
been one of the founders of the Order of King’s Daughters.  She attended old 
Norfolk College and was an artist of ability, many of her paintings being in 
Suffolk today.  She was known to her friends as Mrs. Mamie Baker; "Mamie Dear" 
to her intimates.

   She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church; a charter member of the 
Suffolk Woman’s Club; a charter member of the Order of Ministering Circle of 
King’s Daughter; she was also founder of the City union of King’s Daughter; and 
a member of the Virginia Poetry Society, many of her poems having been published 
in magazines and anthologies; she was a member of Great Bridge Chapter, 
Daughters of the American Revolution, and also of the Colonial Dames of 
Virginia. She was a charter member of the Suffolk Literary Club, of the Suffolk 
Chapter, A.P.V.A., and of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

   Surviving her are several cousins in Suffolk and Norfolk and Nansemond County.

   The body was taken to the funeral home of R.W. Baker and Company, Suffolk, 
and to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where funeral service were conducted, with 
the rector, the Rev. L.A. Haskell, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Moultrie 
Guerry, of St. Paul Episcopal Church of Norfolk.

   Burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk.

   Together with her sister, the late Mrs. Wesley ("Julia") Chapman, Mrs. Baker 
was actively interested in the Order of Cape Henry 1607.


"Mamie" Mary Claudia (PHILLIPS; Mrs. Alexander H.) BAKER, 
artist & civic leader, 
b. 1861, Green Level, Nansemond Co., d. 1944, Norfolk, age 83, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block U, Lot 11*), Suffolk, 
"The Tidewater Trail," Oct. 5, 1944 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Her parents are buried in Block A, Lot 16. 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 


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