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Dixie Lee Baker
1930 - 2021
Dixie Lee Baker
1930 - 2021
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BORN
1930
DIED
2021
Dixie Baker Obituary
Memorial services will be at 2 PM on Thursday, January 6, 2022, at Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
Dixie was born on December 3, 1930, in Amarillo, Texas to Ella and Paul Dixon. She attended Kress High School. She was a retail clothing buyer for Gabriel's in Plainview and Blackburn's and Kline's in Amarillo. Dixie married Floyd Baker in 1976. Dixie and Floyd loved playing golf, especially when spending winters in Horseshoe Bay and Marble Falls. She moved to Amarillo four years ago from Colorado.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd Baker; grandson, Jason Britton; great-grandchild, Mackenzie Anderson; sister, Mary Hazel Hill; and brothers, Robert and John Dixon.
She is survived by her daughter, Beverly Sears of Roswell, Georgia; son, Roger Edwards, and wife Bennie of Bushland; daughter, Teresa Britton of Amarillo; stepdaughter, Denise Baker of Albuquerque, NM; eight grandchildren, Shannon Anderson, Natasha Barton, Gayla Kelley, Stephen Edwards, Braxton Edwards, Erin Anderson, Trey Britton, Brett Britton, Tiffini Arrington, and Bailey Perkins; and twenty-one great-grandchildren.
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2800 Paramount Blvd, Amarillo, TX 79109
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Ardys Fischer
January 13, 2022
Dixie Baker was my "across the street" neighbor when she lived in Colorado. She was a wonderful friend to me and I'm sure she will be missed by all who knew her. Whenever I hear the song "Walzing Across Texas With You", I think of Dixie and her twinkling eyes and big smile! Ardys Fischer
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