Mildred Inez Baker

Mildred Inez ""Polly"" Baker 81 of Amarillo died Thursday April 24, 2008 in Amarillo. Services will be at 11:00 AM Tuesday at Rector Funeral Home Osage Chapel with Billy Gene McConnell, pastor of Open Bible Church in Rio Rico, AZ officiating. Interment will be at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Rector Funeral Home Osage Chapel 2800 S. Osage St. Amarillo, Texas. Our loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother went home to be with our Lord. She has joined our father, Ernest H. in eternity. Polly was born August 1, 1926 in Prairie County, AR to Charlie G and Loy Addie Pruett. She was the youngest of four children. On May 11, 1946, she married Ernest H. Baker in Cullman, AL. They spent 56 amazing and wonderful years together. He preceded her in death in 2002. As many lives are, hers was marked by happiness, hard work, long suffering and change. Mom always looked to her family for comfort and support. She loved her family and opened her home to anyone who needed a hot meal or a shoulder to cry on. Throughout her life in the Rogue Valley, OR, she volunteered with many organizations and events to promote her community and its people, whom she loved. Polly's strong Christian faith kept her steadfast and sustained her through the many trials of her life. God was her guide. He never failed her. Survivors include 2 daughters, Rena Loy Battenfield and her husband Ron of Amarillo and Rita Lynn Baldwin of Lubbock; 2 sons, Charles Reese Baker and Ernest H. Baker, Jr., both of White City, OR; 1 sister, Aline Simmons of Morrilton, AR; 2 brothers, Donald Pruett of Morrilton, AR and Wayne Pruett of Selma, AR, 12 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations be to Cal Farley's Boys Ranch PO Box 1890 Amarillo, Texas 79174.