Martha Baker
Posted: March 12, 2021
COLUMBUS – Martha Lou Baker, 91, died March 5, 2021, at Vineyard Court Nursing Home. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Union Cemetery. Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of Columbus is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Baker was born April 14, 1929, in Columbus, to the late Jacob B. Baker and Emma Lou Jones. She attended Clay County Schools and Mary Holmes Junior College. She was formerly employed with Shelton Cleaners and as an educator with Lowndes County Headstart. She was a member of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her children, Wille Cooper, Alvin Poston and Harold Baker; and seven siblings. She is survived by her children, Thomas Dowson of San Antonio, Texas, David Baker of Pascagoula, Stanley Baker of Birmingham, Alabama, Gloria Shelly, Dianne Harris both of Columbus, Marva Williamson of Stone Mountain, Georgia and Lisa Baker of Marietta, Georgia; step-children, Steve Poston of Madison, Shelia Harden of Morrow, Georgia, Barbara Dorsey of Mableton, Georgia and Laverne Billups of Senoia, Georgia; 18 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.