Rae Ellen Baker Daw

1953 - 2025

The local family of Rae Ellen Baker Daw of Red Oak, Texas is sad to announce her death from lung cancer on August 6, 2025 in Texas. Ellen was born in Frederick on December 6, 1953 and attended Frederick County Public Schools graduating from Linganore High School. She is survived by her companion Jim Garvey of Red Oak, and her sister Rachel "Susie" Baker Beard (Paul) of Frederick. Ellen was predeceased by her parents Ray and Estelle Bruchey Baker (1995), her brother Ronald (1983), her sister Harriet (2003) and her godson Blaine Abrecht (2002). She leaves to remember the good times many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews and friends in the Frederick area.

While in Frederick she attended All Saint's Episcopal Church and all who knew her from Sunday School will have a story to tell. If Ellen liked you, she would do anything in the world for you, and many times this came back to haunt her but never daunted her being who she was. She was well known as the proprietor of The Blue Sky Bar in New Market, Md. Ellen loved to cook and was famous for her tamales. She was a free spirit who lived her own life in her own way. She was interred in Texas but her heart was in Maryland.

As we remember Rae Ellen let us not mourn the absence of her physical form, but rather with fondness celebrate the essence of her indomitable spirit that will linger in the space she leaves behind. Ellie is not truly gone, but merely transformed, her energy intwined with the fabric of the universe and forever laughing among the stars. May she rest in peace and rise in glory. Rae Ellen Baker Daw