Edtrik Baker
Posted: July 10, 2009
Edtrik DeAngelas Baker, 30, died July 4, 2009, at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Services are Saturday at 11 a.m. at Missionary Union Baptist Church with the Rev. Tony Montgomery Sr. officiating . Burial will follow at Memorial Gardens of Columbus. Visitation is today from 1-7 p.m. at Lee Sykes Funeral Home in Columbus; family will greet visitors from 6-7 p.m. He was born June 8, 1979, to Ezra and Bettye Baker. He was an attorney employed with the law offices of Jorge L. Pino’n. In 2008, he owned Edtrik Baker Attorney at Law and had worked as an associate for the Colom Law firm, as assistant state attorney for Miami and Tampa and as a law clerk for Jeff Scott Olson Law firm. He was a 1997 honor graduate of Columbus High School, graduated cum laude in 2001 from Jackson State University and received his doctorate in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin Law School. He was a member of the Black Prosecutors Association, where he served as state representative, the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Bar Association, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., 100 Black Men Inc., Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association and the Middle District of the Florida Federal Bar in 2007. He was a member of Missionary Union Baptist Church. He is survived by his parents; his daughter, Amaya Janay Baker, of Forest; sister, Harriet Baker Eiland, of Chicago; and his grandfather, Ezra Baker Sr., of Louisville. Pallbearers are Thomas Adams, Alexander, Allen and Alfred Brandon, Cory Johnson, Bobby Lawson and Willie Petty.