Lois Baker, spouse of retired Covenant pastor Dwight Baker, passed away in Plainfield, Indiana, on December 21, 2023, following extended decline due to Alzheimer’s disease. She was 83.
Lois Irene Taber was born on May 8, 1940, to missionary parents Floyd and Ada 
Taberin Yaloké, Oubangui-Chari, French Equatorial Africa (now the Central African Republic). She lived there with her mother, an educator, and father, a doctor, until the age of 17.
Lois relocated to Winona Lake, Indiana, to complete her final two years of high school. In 1963, she graduated from Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee. Lois taught high school French and English for several years and in 1984 graduated from Purdue University with a master’s degree of science in education. Throughout her adult life, Lois worked primarily as a copyeditor and proofreader, helping to prepare books, magazines, journals, and study guides for publication. For several years she drafted language exercises for a distance education curriculum.
She married Dwight Baker on July 29, 1964. Together they served Eagle Rock Covenant Church in Los Angeles, California, and the US Center for World Missions in Pasadena.
A lifelong follower of Jesus, Lois was deeply versed in the Bible and actively engaged in the congregational life of churches she and her family attended as they moved from place to place, including serving as deaconess. The role she found most fulfilling was that of teaching junior high Sunday school students.
Lois is survived by her husband, Dwight, of Indianapolis; her children, Karl (Evelyn Kung Baker) of Altadena, California, and Doug, of Gosport, Indiana; six granddaughters, and seven great-grandchildren.
A funeral was held on January 14, 2024, at Community Church of Greenwood in Greenwood, Indiana, and she was laid to rest near her parents in Oakwood Cemetery of Warsaw, Indiana. Memorial gifts can be made to Community Church of Greenwood, or to the “Home for Christmas” project, helping displaced families in the Central African Republic—near the area where she grew up—construct housing and providing resources for gardening. (After clicking the link, scroll down to “Home for Christmas #7864.)
Peace be to her memory.
