Mary Saadi Baker, born March 28, 1929, in Nassau, Bahamas, died Sunday September 19, 2021, in her family home in Nassau. Miss Baker was the daughter of Anthony Saadi Baker and Cawcob Bonagieb Baker. She resided in the Bahamas her entire life except for the years she attended Rosary Academy in Watertown, Massachusetts. She attended the school with two of her sisters Helen Baker Donahue and Virginia Baker after her parents had died. Her Sister Nezera Baker lived and worked nearby in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
After returning to the Bahamas, she worked for her brother, The Honorable Useph Baker in his law chambers and for the family business, A. Baker and Sons.
Miss Baker was a devout Catholic. She attended mass nearly every day from the time she was at Rosary Academy until well into her 80s. Originally, she would go to Sacred Heart Church, but in later years she went to St. Thomas More Church in Palmdale. Miss Baker was also devoted to her family. She loved to cook and bake especially dishes and pastries from her parents’ native Lebanon, like Kibbeh and Ma’Amoul, and the dishes of Bahamas, fried fish, peas and rice and plantains.
Miss Baker was predeceased by her parents, her brothers and their spouses, Frederick, Useph (Carol), Philip, Saadi, Mitchel (Jane), Anthony (Pam and Doreen), and George (Jaunita), her sisters, Lulu, Almoza, Nezera, Helen and Freda and her brother-in-law, James A. Donahue Jr. She was also predeceased by three nephews, Anton Baker, Joseph Baker and Michael Baker.
Miss Baker is survived by her sister Virginia and Nieces and nephews and their families in Pennsylvania, the Bahamas, Minnesota. New York and Florida.
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