Wayne O. "Buz" Baker Jr., 89, of Barnesville, Ohio, passed peacefully into the loving arms of God on Sunday, January 1, 2023, at his home. He was born May 1933, in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and grew up in Fairpoint, a son of the late Wayne Baker Sr. and Mary Pickana Baker.

Buz retired from United Airlines. He was a Flight Simulator Maintenance Supervisor. He attended E.R.E. Friends Church and served in the US Navy.

In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his wife, Donna; two sons, Gary, and John; a sister, Rose Holland; brother, James Baker; brother Paul "Butch" Baker; and a sister Pauline Felix.

He is survived by his daughter Suzyyne, of Barnesville, Ohio; three sisters, Betty Pokerino; Patricia Pike and Geraldine McCraken; one brother, Chet and his wife, Charlene Baker; four granddaughters, Melissa, Heather, Alicia and Heidi; and many great grandchildren.

He loved fishing, hunting, football, his grandchildren and granddogs. He loved working with wood and left behind many works including a house he built in Strasburg, CO.

A memorial service is being planned to be announced at a later date.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Toothman Funeral Home.

To Those I Love
If I should ever leave you whom I love
To go along the Silent Way,
Grieve not,
Nor speak of me with tears,
But laugh and talk
Of me as if I were beside you there.
(I'd come-I'd come, could I but find a way!
But would not tears and grief be barriers?)
And when you hear a song or
See a bird I loved,
Please do not let the thought of me be sad...
For I am loving you just as I always have...
You were so good to me!
There are so many things I wanted still
To do—so many things to say to you...
Remember that I did not fear—
It was just leaving you that was so hard to face... We cannot see Beyond...
But this I know:
I loved you so -
Twas heaven here with you!
by Isla Paschal Richardson