TransGriot: Minister Bobbie Jean Baker (1962-2014)

[Jamie D]

Minister Bobbie Jean Baker Passes Away

She was born in Memphis, TN, and overcame some challenging circumstances in her life before moving to the Bay Area in 1992.   She became an ordained minister at the City of Refuge UCC in San Francisco and served as the West Coast Regional TransSaints Minister of the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, and Lay Minister at Transcending Transgender Ministries of CORUCC.

Minister Bobbie Jean Baker 1962-2014

Many of us are still shocked and stunned about the news we received yesterday concerning our Left Coast sister Minister Bobbie Jean Baker.   She was killed in an auto accident by a hit and run driver after attending watch services....

In the interim, one of my readers, Oliver W. Martin III, sent me a link to a YouTube memorial montage revscott06 created about our dearly departed sister.

Full articles and YouTube videos at the links.

[Constance]

Thank you for sharing these articles, Jamie.

Today was the funeral for Minister BobbieJean at First Congregational Church of Oakland. I was there, at the invitation of some friends of mine who were colleagues of hers.

I posted about this in the Christianity forum, and I just don't have the energy right now to reiterate all I said in that thread. But it was a beautiful ceremony, and I will be touched by it for ever.

Okay, back to crying.

[oh hai!]

Sounds like a tremendous loss for the community. May she rest well