Cover photo for Bessie Engle Baker's Obituary
Bessie Engle Baker Profile Photo
1940 Bessie Engle Baker 2024

Bessie Engle Baker

September 4, 1940 — June 16, 2024

Hazard

Mrs. Bessie Engle Baker was born September 4, 1940 in Leslie County, Kentucky. Bessie is the daughter of the late Lillie Engle and the late Vycie Roberts Engle. Bessie passed away Sunday, June 16, 2024 at the Hazard ARH Medical Center, Hazard, Kentucky. She was 83 years old. Bessie had been a life long resident of Leslie County with exception of living in Hazard for the last few years. Bessie was a former employee for the Hyden Health & Rehab Center in Hyden as a cook. She enjoyed sewing, reading her Bible, cooking, working puzzles and especially loved spending time with her family. 

Bessie is preceded in death by her beloved parents, Lillie and Vycie Roberts Engle, loving and devoted husband, Pearl Baker, brothers, Johnny Engle, Harold Engle and Clarence  Engle and his wife, Josephine and daughter, Vickie Ann Baker Stacy. She leaves the following relatives surviving; cherished sons, Rick Baker and wife, Connie, Hyden, KY and Josh Baker and wife, Devina, Hazard, KY, brothers, Gary Engle and wife, Carolyn, Newport, KY. and James Engle and wife, Barbara, London, KY, sisters, Brenda Coots and husband, Billy Ray, Smilax, KY, Alphie Lewis and husband, Larry, Smilax, KY, Sharon Maggard and husband, Donald, Smilax, KY,  Shirley Henson & husband, Mason, Jackson, KY, Edna Pennington, Newport, KY & Wanda Collett and husband, Richard, Fairborn, OH, special friends, James and Ann Williams and Lena Engle, London, KY, special person, Zander Baker, treasured grandchildren, Christy Shepherd and Jonathan, Ricky Baker and Brittany & Jessica Baker and Dustin Ashley and 12 treasured great grandchildren. Also a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives & friends survive.

Funeral: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 at 12:00 Noon at the Dwayne Walker Funeral Home, Hyden, KY

Ministers: David Pennington, Don Kilburn and Jonathan Shepherd

Interment: Lillie Engle Family Cemetery, Smilax, KY

Pallbearers: Ricky Baker, Josh Baker, Rider Baker, Zaiden Baker, Cooper Baker, Dustin Ashley, Caleb Shepherd and Ben Baker

Visitation: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 6:00 P.M. at the Dwayne Walker Funeral Home


To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Bessie Engle Baker, please visit our flower store.

Guestbook

Visits: 2125

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the
Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Send Flowers

Send Flowers

Plant A Tree

Plant A Tree