Nadine (Edwards) Baker celebrates her 100th birthday<\/p>\n
Published 12:06 pm Wednesday, October 8, 2025<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Nadine (Edwards) Baker, a longtime former resident of Tifton and the surrounding area, now living in Jacksonville, Florida, has become her family\u2019s first centenarian. Baker turned 100 years old on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Baker married her sweetheart, the late Rev. Banks H. Baker, also from Tifton, in Sycamore Baptist Church on Christmas Eve, 1944.They have two sons: William (Robyn) of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Robert of Jacksonville, Florida; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Known lovingly as \u201cGranny Baker\u201d for the many children in her care over the years, she credits her long life to \u201cclean living, serving in her church, gardening and staying active.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Please join family and friends celebrating her 100th birthday, and her life of service and family, from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 11, at Jones Road Baptist Church, 2506 Jones Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32220.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Please wear something purple, and bring lots of smiles, hugs and memories.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Birthday wishes may be sent c\/o Jones Road Baptist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nadine (Edwards) Baker celebrates her 100th birthday Published 12:06 pm Wednesday, October 8, 2025 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Nadine…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":297161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-297160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115361002642666395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}