Tommie Lee "Buck" Baker

08/22/1943 - 02/12/2026

Funeral service for Tommie Baker, 82, of Stone Mountain, GA, will be at 11:00 a.m., Friday, February 20, 2026, at Shiloh A.M.E. Zion Church, 4970 County Road 24, Auburn, AL, 36830 with interment in Cobb Cemetery, County Road 33, Auburn, AL (Brownville Community) 36830, Reverend Dr. Hubert Brown, Jr., Pastor, Reverend Stephen Franklin, Eulogist.

Mr. Baker, who passed away Thursday, February 12, 2026 at Emory Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia, was born August 22, 1943, in Lee County, Alabama.

Mr. Baker will lie in repose at the church one hour prior to the service.

He leaves to cherish his memory: wife, Bernice Baker of Stone Mountain, GA; four children, Beatrice Randle of Atlanta, GA, Martha Baker of Tuskegee, AL, Tony (Shalette) Baker of Montgomery, AL and Bernadette Baker of Lithonia, GA; eight grandchildren, Bryan Randle of Oklahoma, OK, Jef Kida Baker Johnson of Jacksonville, FL, Jarvis Baker Johnson, Tony (Devasha) Baker, Jr., LaTrece Freeman all of Montgomery, AL, La`Toya Williams of Duluth, GA, Ab McKeithan of Tuscaloosa, AL and Jeffrey Arnold of Lithonia, GA; seven great-grandchildren; one sister, Annie Pearl Terry of New Haven, CT; six sisters-in-law, Willa Chandler of Auburn, AL, Dorothy Lanier, Helen Cloud, Ida Lanier Johnson, Mittie Cooper and Ruth Lanier all of Atlanta, GA; three brothers-in-law, Willie Lanier, Jr. of Detroit, MI, Nathaniel Tyner of Atlanta ,GA and John Talley of Auburn, AL; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.