82R16583 MGR-D
By: Veasey H.R. No. 953
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, Family and friends are mourning the loss of Paula
Dare Roberts Baker, who passed away on March 12, 2011; and
WHEREAS, Born in Red Bird, Oklahoma, to William Dee Roberts
and Hattie Virginia Burns Roberts on August 17, 1926, Paula Roberts
studied at Huston-Tillotson University and earned degrees from West
Virginia State University, the University of North Texas, and Texas
Woman's University; she went on to have a career as an elementary
school teacher and speech therapist in the Fort Worth Independent
School District that spanned more than three decades, and she was
also a librarian for Tarrant County College and later worked as a
bookkeeper and board secretary-treasurer for a funeral home; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Baker shared her time and talents as a member of
the board of directors of Child Protective Services of Tarrant
County, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the Progressive Literary
and Art Club, the Bunche-Ellington Club, and the Historic Carver
Heights Neighborhood Association; and
WHEREAS, Devoted to her faith, Ms. Baker was an active member
of the Baker Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, serving as
a trustee, a teacher in the church school, and a member of the
Daughters of Baker, the Corine Griffin Women's Missionary Society,
and the noonday prayer and Bible study groups, as well as holding a
seat on the Christian education commission; and
WHEREAS, An advocate for children throughout her life, Paula
Baker was a kind, generous, and loving woman who will forever be
remembered with deep affection by all who held her close to their
hearts; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 82nd Texas
Legislature hereby pay tribute to the memory of Paula Dare Roberts
Baker and extend sincere sympathy to the members of her family: to
her son, James Nathan Charles Baker; to her daughter, Janice
Annette Baker Offutt and her husband, Gerald; to her special
daughter, Jacquelyn Meeks; to her special sister, Catherine
Christian; and to her many other relatives and friends; and, be it
further
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
prepared for her family and that when the Texas House of
Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Paula Dare
Roberts Baker.