Services for Evelyn Childs Baker, of New Orleans and formerly ofBrookhaven, are noon Tuesday, Sept. 22, at Greater New Zion M.B.Church in Hazlehurst with burial in the church cemetery. WilliamsMortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Monday from 1 until 6 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Baker, 68, died Sept. 15, 2009, at Ochsner Medical Centerin New Orleans. She was born in Hazlehurst on Nov. 28, 1940, toRobert Childs and Emma Durr Childs.

She was a housewife. She was a member of Greater St. AndrewsBaptist Church in New Orleans.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and her brothers, HenryLee Childs and L. C. Childs.

Survivors are her husband, Willie Baker, of New Orleans; herdaughters, Linda Baker and Doris Brackett, both of Kenner, La.; herbrothers, John Lee Childs and Robert Lee Childs and wife,Augustine, all of Brookhaven; her sisters, Sarah Pendleton andhusband, Homer, and Mary Johnson and husband, Jerry, all of Wesson;her uncles, Wilma Durr and Lance Durr, both of Hazlehurst; fivegrandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.