On May 14, 2023, Bernice Johnson Baker transitioned from life to rest at the Palatka Center for Rehabilitation and Healing. She was born on September 30, 1920 in Valdosta, GA to Clifford Williams and Frances Mack. She was the fourth child of eleven children.

Bernice was preceded in death by her parents, Clifford Williams and Frances Mack, and step-father Jim Green, Sr., her husbands, Emmanuel Johnson and James Baker; her siblings, Inez Garvin, Willa Mae Dixon, Nella Mae Holloway, Alamae Green, Susie Terry, Jim Green Jr, Francina Nixon, George Hubert Green, Isabella Green, and Mary Alice Green; her beloved daughter Camellia Denise Johnson; her step-daughter Odell Coleman; and her step-sons Daniel Baker and Robert Baker.

Bernice leaves to cherish her memory, step-daughters Betty Baker and Gwendolyn Baker; her step-sons Eddie Baker (Tina), James Baker Jr. (Ruby), Andrew Baker (Arlene), Jerry Baker (Joanne) and Arnold Waters; her beloved Nieces Jannie Holloway, Jeanette Felder, Deloris Green, Vanester Fells, Shirley Collins, Mary Ann Green, Paulia Anderson, Miriam Green and Louise S. Sparrow; her loving Nephews Paul Williams, John C. Daniels, Raymond Green, and Willie Earl Nixon; and a host of great-great-great nieces and nephews, grand-children, a special God-daughter Ruth Benjamin and a special cousin, Joseph Giles Sermons, Jr. (Roderick Hairston) special caretaker loving nephew Paul Williams

Visitation & Viewing: 4pm to 6pm Monday May 29th D.A. Boyd Memorial Chapel, 924 Reid St Palatka, FL 32177

Celebration of Life: 11 am Tuesday May 30th Palatka Seventh-day Adventist Church, 325 S Palm Ave Palatka FL 32177 Palatka Street

Interment: Evergreen Cemetery , 1116 Westover Dr Palatka, FL 32177