Services for Pharoah Baker, of Biloxi and formerly of BogueChitto, are 1:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6, at Pass Road Chapel ofBradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi with burial in the BiloxiNational Cemetery with military honors and Masonic services.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeralhome.

Mr. Baker, 76, died Aug. 1, 2007, in Biloxi.

He served 23 years in the U.S. Army before retiring in 1972. Helater worked as an offshore cook with the Marathon Oil Co.

He was a Master Mason, Shriner, and a Baptist, and also a memberof the American Legion Post 0014 in McComb.

Preceding him in death were his parents, Richard Thomas and RubyLouise Dear Baker; his sisters, Lottie Mae Davis, Nellie Rae Clark,Tommie Ruth Welch; and his daughter, Millie Sturtevant.

Survivors are his wife of 17 years, Elizabeth Albert SturtevantBaker, of Biloxi; his daughter, Linda Jones, of Ferriday, La.,Mandy Howard, of Jena, La., Penny Sturtevant, of Biloxi, ElizabethJo Rushing, of Latimer; his sons, Donald Baker, of Bogue Chitto,and Ronald Baker, of Waynesboro, Ark.; his brothers, Cecil Baker,of Hattiesburg, and Richard Thomas Baker Jr., of Bogue Chitto;eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 4803Harrison Circle, Gulfport, MS 39507.