Mary Lydia Baker, 75, homemaker, died of cardiopulmonary arrest Wednesday at Methodist Hospital of Dyersburg. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Halls Funeral Home with burial in Greenhill Memorial Gardens in Halls. She was a member of Walnut Grove Baptist Church near Ripley.

Mrs. Baker, the widow of Otha Lee Baker, leaves three daughters, Betty Nell Ozment of Newbern, Linda Drewery of Grand Junction and Betty Smith of Lakeland, Fla.; two sons, Jerry Wayne Baker of Cumming, Ga., and Bobby Wayne of Ripley; a brother, Hershel Huffins of Gary, Ind., 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

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