On Sunday, September 19, 1926 a precious baby girl was born to Charlotte Alice Mckennie Brown and Henry Brown. She was given the beautiful name Odelia Henrietta. Like a flower blooms in the spring her life blossomed into love and light. A virtuous woman - she became a loving and dedicated wife and mother, pastor's wife, mayor's wife, teacher, musician, and missionary. She was affectionately known as Mama, Grandma, Aunt Delia, Aunt O, Big O, Lady O, Queen B and Mrs. Baker to all of her many students.

She taught at the school in Wadley, Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Bartow, GA and Louisville Middle and High School in Louisville, Georgia.

She was a lifelong member of First Baptist Church. She served faithfully as a Musician, Mission Leader, Youth Leader, and Mother of the Church. She used her gift of music in the community as a musician for Brinson St Phillips Baptist Church, Swainsboro, Georgia, and Antioch Baptist Church in Wrightsville Georgia. She was a member of the Jefferson County Retired Teachers Association and Jefferson County Savannah State National Alumni Association of which she was a life member.

Mrs. Baker, a lifelong resident of Wadley, attended school in the one-room school at Glenns Temple graduating from high school in Wadley then Louisville because it was accredited. She attended Morris Brown College in Atlanta GA, and Savannah State College in Savannah GA majoring in Home Economics.

She met the love of her life, Herman Baker, while at Morris Brown College. She knew he was hers when she transferred to Savannah State and he was there. To date, they would have been together for 71 years. To this union came Herman Kenneth, Pamela Faye, Clayton Anthony, Teresa Cheryl, and Jocelyn Ingrid.

Mrs. Baker’s greatest accomplishment was the lives that she touched in her family, school, church, and the community as a whole, leaving a legacy of light, hope, peace, joy, and love.

On Tuesday, May 16,2023 at 11:39 pm she peacefully and quietly answered her Master's call.

She is preceded in death by her parents Charlotte Brown Hinkins and Henry Brown; two sisters, Susie Robinson and Mattie Hinkins and her beloved granddaughter Candance Blount.

Mrs. Baker’s legacy of love and life will will continue to live on in her children, Herman Kenneth ( Doris) Baker, Sr., Columbus, Georgia, Pamela Baker, Wadley, Georgia, Clayton (Margaret) Baker, Wadley, Georgia, Teresa Blount, Lithonia, Georgia, and Jocelyn Baker, Augusta, Georgia; one brother Samuel Hinkins, Wadley, Georgia; her sister/cousin Effie Simon, Newark, New Jersey, one brother-in-law, Sylvester Baker, Toledo, Ohio, one sister-in-law, Christine Snell, Glenwood, GA, two aunts, Julia McKennie, Wadley, GA, and Joyce MeKennie, South Fallsburg, New York, ten grand-children, Ken (Jackie) Baker, Kelly Baker (Jerry) Whigham, Brian Blount, Nicholas Blount, Lisa (Christopher) Lake, B.J. (Angie) Blount, Anthony Baker, Valarie Denise Baker, Wendy Baker, and Dinedra (Hoyt) Hollins, Swainsboro, Georgia; bonus grands, Jadasia Usery and Xzorion Coffie; great grandchildren, Kenuan, Kameron, Kristopher, Omarion, Kimora, Rhema, Emanuel, Aniya, Zion, William III (Trey), Willow, Kameron, Jamal, Jade, Vincent, Harley, and Haley, one great-great grand, Kylan, god-children, Kimberly Hinkins, John Henry Walden, and Nekia Tarver, true loving and caring neighbors, Robert; and Felicia Walden, all of her nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends of the Brown, Hinkins, Baker and McKennie families.

Mrs Baker was loved by everyone she encountered. She always encouraged others using the words from a song she learned when she was four years old which she sang all of the time.

Public viewing will be held Tuesday, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 from 4:00 to 7:00 P.M. at First Baptist Church. 939 N. MLK Blvd., Wadley, GA.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 11:00 A.M. at Pineola Church of God, 407 Fam Street, Wadley, GA.

Interment will be held at First Baptist Church cemetery.

Davis Funeral Home, 725 Beech Street, Louisville, GA Is in charge of arrangements for Mrs. Odelia Henrietta Brown Baker.