Nansemond County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Baker, Mary Phillips, 1944 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MARY PHILLIPS BAKER Mrs. Mary Phillips Baker Succumbs Mrs. Mary Phillips Baker, widow of the late A.H. Baker, died at 3:45 a.m. today at 356 Princess Anne Road, Norfolk, where she had resided for the past six years. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Edward G. Phillips and Mary Riddick Phillips, who were prominent in Isle of Wight County in past years. She is the last survivor and member of her family, other than a number of cousins. The body was brought to the R.W. Baker and Co. Funeral Home where it will remain until 11 a.m. Saturday, at which time services will be conducted at St. Paul's Episcopal church, Suffolk, by Rev. Louis A. Haskell, assisted by Rev. N. Guerry, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Norfolk. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. ****************************************************************************** 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's 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. 15 May 1861, Green Level*, Nansemond Co., d. 5 Oct 1944, Norfolk, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block U, Lot 11*), Suffolk, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 29, No. 167, Thurs., Oct. 5, 1944, p. 8; "Tidewater Trail," Thurs., Oct. 5, 1944 *Additional information: Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt Photos of her gravestone & footstone - added by Jake Dog - are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #59733295. D.Cert. 21310 (Norfolk #1832) gives b. Chuckatuck. Her parents are buried in Block A, Lot 16. http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt Her husband's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald," July 12 & 13, 1928) are posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b260a2ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b260m2ob.txt