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FrontPorchMemoriesCamille AndingIt’s the house on College Street – the onewith the happy porch – the porch the ownerscall their favorite room in the house. From thatfront porch Mary Ann and James (Jim) Bakeroften wave at passing traffic and savor atreasure-trove of delightful memories.42 • DECEMBER 2020
For Jim, the house was his grandmother’s home,then his parents’ and now is a place where the Bakers’five grandchildren visit them. Three generationshave captured and retained countless memories forMary Ann and Jim, as well as for family and friends.Pelahatchie was home to Mary Ann’s parents,and even though their property touched the backsideof Jim’s yard, Jim and Mary Ann didn’t start datinguntil her senior year in high school. (A wartime jobof building Homestead Air Force Base had carriedMary Ann’s dad and family to Florida until movingback to Pelahatchie her tenth-grade year.)Jim graduated the year before Mary Ann butcame home to Pelahatchie on weekends. Some mutualfriends arranged for a foursome after a Sunday nightchurch service, and romance budded. It bloomedover the next five years of their dating.Mary Ann Davis and Jim Baker were wed inPelahatchie Baptist Church on July 17, 1965. Jimworked in retail the following years – jobs that tookhis family to Texas and Louisiana before movingback “home” in 1991.The couples’ two daughters, Clair and Lauren,and their families, have been entertained with storiesabout Jim’s childhood. They can take you to the urnin the cemetery adjacent to their property where Jimhid his school day quizzes that got an F grade.The home place was just a block from the school,so Jim left for class when he heard the school bellring. He’s also described how his mother pruned thebush across from the church, getting switches todiscipline his bad behavior in church. On oneoccasion he demonstrated his new skill at whistling– in the middle of the sermon. Out he went with hismother to the “switch” bush!Hometown RANKIN • 43
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