Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
3:15 pm Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Juanita Martin Baker

Juanita Martin Baker

October 25, 2012

Juanita Martin Baker, 86, died Thursday, October 25, 2012, at The Meadows, Fulton, Miss.

She was born December 15, 1925, in Mississippi and was a homemaker. She was a member of Pleasant Hill #2 Baptist Church, Double Springs.

Services were Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Bro. Tommy Grissom and Bro. Ralph Culp officiating. Burial was in Ebenezer Cemetery, Vina.

Survivors are her husband, Lacy Baker, Red Bay; three children, Harold Martin and wife, Sophia, Grenada, Miss., Wanda McNeil and husband, Sherrill, and Debbie Wiggins and husband, Nick, all of Red Bay; three brothers, Tommy Grissom and wife, Judy, Cleveland, Tenn., Owel Grissom and wife, Barb, Trussville, and Royce Grissom and wife, Nell, Pell City; one sister, Maxine Culp, Iuka, Miss.; seven grandchildren, Todd Martin, Shane McNeil, Mandy Colley, Andrew Wiggins, Jenny Miller, Jay McAdams and Amy McAdams; nine great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; four step-children Ray Baker, Robert Baker, Kay Woods and Lowell Baker; nine step-grandchildren and ten step-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Shane McNeil, Todd Martin, Andy Wiggins, Justin Miller, Craig Baker, Mike Baker and Mark Baker.

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