Anna Leone (Hamilton) Baker

Anna Leone Baker, 85, of Perryville, MD, passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, June 16, 2024.

Born on January 15, 1939, in Glasgow, Kentucky, she was the daughter of the late William Ollie and Mary Baker Mayfield Hamilton.

Anna was a proud veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving as a dental technician in Pensacola, Florida. She was also featured on a Naval recruitment poster for the U.S. Navy WAVES. While stationed at Bainbridge Naval Training Center, she met her loving husband, George, to whom she was married for 60 years. They were married at her childhood home in Kentucky.

During her children's school years, Anna earned an Associate's degree in Nursing from Harford Community College, which led to a fulfilling career as a Registered Nurse spanning more than 20 years. She began her career at the V.A. Medical Center in Perry Point, MD, and ultimately retired from there. She also worked at Franklin Square Hospital, serving as an ICU nurse and a Med-Surg unit nurse for several years. Later, she spent a year working at Calvert Manor Nursing Home. Remarkably, Anna kept her RN license active into retirement while earning a nail technician certification, becoming the only nail tech with an active RN license in the State of Maryland.

Anna's life was filled with creativity, artistry, and adventure. She loved traveling with her daughters and friends and was an avid gardener, a highly skilled seamstress, and a quilter. She enjoyed sewing beautiful clothing for her family, including elaborate gowns and dresses. She quilted with the “Sew and Reap” quilting group, creating gifts for family and contributing to various charities, including those for cancer patients and wounded soldiers. Anna was also adept in crochet, embroidery, and floral arrangement. Anna and George took photography and photo development classes at Cecil Community College together, filling family photo albums with many treasured photos. Additionally, she took private painting lessons and became skilled in artistic painting. Anna had a vast culinary talent, delighting her family and friends with delicious baked goods, especially during the holidays, and beautifully decorated cakes and cookies. She was an active leader of her daughters’ 4-H group, teaching sewing, cooking, and food canning skills.

Anna and George enjoyed attending auctions together, where they often found wood furniture to restore and refinish. She even learned upholstery, becoming adept and skilled in the craft.

A long-standing member of the Church of Christ of Aberdeen, MD, Anna joined the church shortly after moving to Perryville.

Anna is survived by her loving daughters, Mary Turah Jones (Woodrow A. Jones, Jr.), Melinda Ann Baker Roth (Roger Roth, Jr.), Monica Bridget Baker, and Madge Amber Baker; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, Anna was preceded in death by her husband, George William Baker; her son, George William Baker, Jr.; and her brother, William Lowell Hamilton.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to the American Heart Association or Amedisys Hospice Foundation in care of Lee A. Patterson & Son Funeral Home, P.A., PO Box 766, Perryville, MD 21903-0766.

Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 1PM, at the Lee A. Patterson & Son Funeral Home, P.A. of Perryville, MD. Visitation for family and friends will be held Monday, June 24, 2024, 6 PM until 8 PM, at the funeral home. William Brown, Minister of the Aberdeen Church of Christ, will officiate. Interment will be in Asbury Cemetery, Port Deposit, MD.