Jacob Taylor Baker

1992 - 2024

Jacob Taylor Baker
05/13/1992 - 01/30/2024
On January 30th, 2024 Jacob Taylor Baker departed from this Earth to reach the next life. He was a curious, smart young man who followed his lifelong passions in music, martial arts, and his love of cooking. Jacob possessed a fearlessness, and loved to travel and learn about other cultures, especially the food. He served two tours in the US Navy and was deployed to Manama, Bahrain from September 2010 through September 2015 on the USS Devastator MCM-6. Jacob served as a Firefighter/Damage Controlman, Second Class training sailors in fire-fighting and equipment usage, emergency drills, safety and maintenance. He loved learning everything there is about food which he made his life's work majoring in Food Science at Texas A & M University in Food Systems Industry Management, a new program which focuses on the food systems in place from "tip to tail," i.e. soil, etc. College Station was his home, and in his free time Jacob was an avid player of Dungeons and Dragons, and a devout reader of military history. Jacob is survived by his mother Paula Baker, and his father Jeffrey Thomas Baker, his brother Joshua Tyler Baker, in addition to his grandmother Lydia Castellon-Flores of Midland, and his extended family of aunts and uncles who live throughout Texas. Jacob lives on in the hearts of all the people he touched throughout his life. Funeral services are scheduled for Thursday, February 29th, 2024 at 2 p.m. at Fairview Cemetery, 1620 N. A St. in Midland. Services are under the direction of Willowbrook Funeral Home.