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Dorothy C. Huff-Baker
musician and songwriter
Mrs. Dorothy C. Huff-Baker, accomplished pianist, organist and songwriter, died Wednesday, May 10, 2000, at University Hospital.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. today at Elliott Sons Funeral Home, Lumpkin Road, with the Revs. Marion Jay and David Biner officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Mrs. Huff-Baker, a native of Augusta, was a musician, organist and songwriter whose music career spanned 77 years, beginning when she was 10 with her debut on the stage of the Imperial Theatre at the first live broadcast radio hook-up in Augusta. During her musical career, she played for two presidents, Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and performed at the USO in Augusta for paralyzed veterans.
She went on to perform in The Sancken's Youth Review, Colonial Showboat, Elks Minstrels, Paul Whiteman Talent Contest and Little Chapel Around the Corner, which was broadcast live from Elliott Sons Funeral Home. She volunteered her talent at stage shows for Augusta Recreation Department and played many shows at Bell Auditorium.
She worked as music director for WJBF-Channel 6 in the 1950s. A friend asked Mrs. Huff-Baker to audition her son for her television show Today in Dixie. The nephew was Jim Nabors, with whom she remained friends until her death. She performed with Mr. Nabors in January in Athens.
Mrs. Huff-Baker was actively involved with the youth of Augusta, and she was a member of Resource Center on Aging and Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars. She was a former volunteer with Meals on Wheels and a life honorary member of Atlanta Federation of Musicians. She was a member of St. Alban's Episcopal Church.
The family said, ``She was a very special lady, a devoted mother and grandmother whose god-given talent and love touched the lives of everyone around her.''
Survivors include a son, William C. Huff Jr., Lincolnton; three daughters, Doris Huff Edwards, Augusta, Angele Huff Boland, Eatonton, and Nancy Huff Berzins, Grovetown; three stepdaughters, Donnis Strickland, Hephzibah, Pat Williams, Trenton, S.C., and Medeira Naten, Ridge Crest, Calif.; a brother, James H. Cloud, Lincolnton; a sister, Frances Minor, McRae; and more than 50 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Stan Crouch, Bill Waters, Larry Olive, Harry Kirkland, Andy Cheek, Robert Symms, James Kitchens and Bobby Maxwell.
Honorary pallbearers will be her grandsons and great-grandsons.
The Augusta Chronicle, May 13, 2000.
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1913 - 2000 (86 years)
