Myrtle Magdalene (Maggie) Baker Farris

Maggie Baker Farris, age 89, went home to be with Jesus on June 6, 2023. Maggie was born in Fairfax County, VA, on February 6, 1934, to Jesse and Vessie Baker. She graduated from Bramwell High School, Bramwell, WV, in 1952. She went on to marry Bobby Lee Farris and spent 22 years as a military wife. Maggie called Goldsboro, North Carolina, home for 50 years.
Maggie was preceded in death by her husband of 25 years, her sister, Naomi Sullivan, and her parents. After the death of Bobby, she went into business as a traveling nanny and baby nurse. For 20 years, Maggie zigzagged the United States keeping children and tending newborns.
Maggie is survived by her three children—Bobby Lee Farris, Jr., Michele Farris Wood and husband James Wood, and Laura Ann Binkley and husband Kyle Binkley; five grandchildren—Melissa Braswell, Michael Wood, William Radford, Mark Wood, and James Wood; and ten great-grandchildren. Maggie also has three living siblings—Andrew Baker and wife Barbara Jean Baker, David Baker, and Audrey Wantling and husband Steve Wantling—as well as many nieces and nephews.
A Celebration of Life service will be held for Maggie on Friday, June 9, 2023, at Grace Baptist Church located at 3305 Old Milburnie Road, Raleigh, NC. Flowers can be received at the church from 8 - 9:30 AM on the morning of June 9. Donations can also be made to Samaritan’s Purse in her honor, an organization that was very near and dear to her heart.
Interment will occur at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Goldsboro, NC, following the celebration.