First Posted: 10/29/2010

Sammie Lee Baker, 74, of 168 Birtie Road, died Oct. 24, 2010, at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, S.C.
The funeral will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Horace Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Evergreen, the Rev. James Dockery officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Community Cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Shawn Baker; daughters, Barbara McKinney, Sandra Simon, Deborah Harvey, Cynthia Brown, Karen Washington, and Lorie Baker, all of Florida, Millie Poyer of Pennsylvania, and Crystal Broxton of Raleigh; sons, Russell Baker and Larry Baker, both of Florida; sisters, Lottie Lane, Jeanette Sparks, Katherine McCray, Alice Heggs, and Mary Baisden of Georgia, Margaret Young and Ann Tillman of Connecticut; and brothers, Willie Young and Alvin Young, both of Georgia, Eddie Young of Maryland, and Charles Young of Connecticut.
The visitation will be from noon to 5 p.m. today at Peoples Funeral Home in Whiteville from 6 to 7 p.m. at the church, and an hour before the service Saturday.