Rita Baker
April 4, 1957 - June 3, 2011
As
a member of Altrusa, an international service
organization, Rita was recently elected President of the
Sherman Chapter. Rita went home to be with her
Lord and Savior very suddenly on Friday, June 3rd after
falling ill on a vacation trip to New Orleans with her
husband Erik and Aunt Carol.
Rita was born and lived her
formative years in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas,
attending Grace Temple Baptist Church where she came to
know Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior.
She graduated from Adamson High
School in 1975. Her business career included
graduating from the SMU Paralegal program and rising
through the ranks of the DAPA to eventually lead the
organization.
For the past
7 years she lived in Sherman, Texas, with her husband
Erik. Rita first worked for the Sanders, O'Hanlon
& Motley law firm, and most recently for the Homestead
of Denison. She often helped out her beloved Aunt
Carol at Carol's Red Apron restaurant in Sherman.
Rita is survived by her husband
Erik Baker, her son Patrick Allen and his wife Melissa,
three precious grandchildren, Audrey, Benjamin and Riley
Allen, her grandmother Jessie Braswell (Nanny), her
grandmother-in-law Mary Johnson (Honey), her parents
Maurice and Peggy davis, her mother-in-law Jenny May,
her sister Gwen Evans and husband Carlton, her sister
Beverly Adams and husband Bruce, her sister janet
Graham, her sister-in-law Leigh Ann Onwu, and many
nieces, nephews and cousins.
