Roxa Ann Baize Obituary (1953 - 2022)

Roxa Ann Baize, 68 of Towanda passed away at 6:44 PM on Wednesday April 13, 2022, at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington. There will be a funeral service at 6 PM on Monday April 18, 2022, at Journey Church in Normal. Pastors Jason Damkoehler and Clark Killingsworth will officiate. There will be a visitation from 4-6 PM at the church. Calvert & Metzler Memorial Home in Bloomington is handling arrangements. Roxa was born to Walter Grant and Betty Jean Maxwell Dunbar on April 26, 1953, in Bloomington. She married Edward "Eddie" Baize Jr on October 27, 1972, in Normal. He survives. She is also survived by two children, Stacy Yordy of Towanda, and Ed (Amy) Baize III of Hudson, two grandchildren Michael Edward Baize and Sandra "Zara" Yordy, and one brother William "Skip" (Annie) Dunbar of San Jose, CA. She is preceded in death by her parents, three brothers Stacy, Harold, and Lance Dunbar and one sister Candy Dunbar. She was a longtime member of College Avenue Baptist Church in Normal, now Journey Church where she taught Sunday School for college age teens. Roxa had a servant's heart and loved to crochet blankets for all the newborn babies at church. She worked for Unit 5 for over 25 years as a cooks assistant at Towanda Grade School. She retired on October 30, 2015. Memorial contributions may be made to Journey Church or to Myasthenia Gravis Foundation.