Edwin Lamar ‘Butch’ Baker

Published 10:50 am Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Funeral services for Edwin Lamar “Butch” Baker of Brookhaven are Thursday, June 30, 2016, at Riverwood Family Funeral Service with burial at Riverwood Memorial Park.

Visitation is today from 5 to 9 p.m. at Riverwood.

Mr. Baker, 65, died Monday, June 27, 2016, at King’s Daughters Medical Center. He was born Nov. 11, 1950, to Edwin Lamar “Ed” Baker and Marjorie M. Brumfield Baker.

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Mr. Baker was a pharmacist and former owner of Baker’s Pharmacy. He was a member of Easthaven Baptist Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents, Ed and Marjorie Baker; and brother, Larry Baker.

Survivors are his wife, Bonnie Louise Beard Baker; daughter, Erin Baker; nieces and nephews, Brandon Beard, Nicole Teaster, Ashley Greene, Taylor Brown and Colby Beard; and many other, great-nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins. Mr. Baker also loved his “grand-dogs” Sophi and Joplin.

If you would like to leave a word of sympathy to the Baker family, you may do so at www.riverwoodfamily.com.