Chloe Baker Reeks

Chloe Baker Reeks went home to her Heavenly Father and was reunited with her husband, family and friends on July 29, 2013.
Mrs. Reeks was born to Buelah Johnson and Charles Baker and with her two sisters, was raised in Los Angeles, California.After high school and completion of secretarial school she enlisted with the United States Marine Corp to serve her country after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Stationed in Honululu, she was secretary to General Earl Long through whom she met her future husband, the USMC combat artist Harry Daniels Reeks. Her most memorable experience in the USMC was sitting on a hill with quite a few of her women Marine friends to watch the return of all the battle ships to Pearl Harbor after the end of the war.
Chloe Baker married Harry Reeks at the end of World War II and they settled in San Francisco where Harry had many commissions and shows awaiting him. He was a member of the Bohemian Club and Chloe enjoyed the social and civic activities of the wives of the members. They had many adventures and opportunities in California and lived in San Francisco until 1953 when they returned East to be near Harry's family and hometown of New Orleans. In her middle years, Chloe was active in her church and the Ocean Springs Women's Club and the O.S. Garden Club. A perpetual student in her life, she became a scholar of the Bible after embracing Christianity. Several years after the death of her husband, she returned to college at age 70. She began an avid and academic study of fine art , predominantly in the media of painting, with Patt Odom, who she often cited as not only the finest instructor with whom she had studied in any field, but also a renowned fine artist. Her time in formal study and then as an artist in the Ocean Springs art community were the most fulfilling years of her life after her husband's death. The Monday Morning Art Group and its members, her friends, were a joyous and central part of her life. The Ocean springs Art Association honored her with a Lifelong Membership.Chloe Reeks was preceded in death by her husband, the artist-sculptor Harry Reeks; her parents; her two sisters: Pauline Benton and her daughter Laurie Ash and son Jan Benton and Lucille Millasich, all of Covina, CA.; her brother and sister-in-law: John F. Reeks, Jr. and Margaret Otto Reeks of New Orleans: her friends: Joannie Armstrong, Melba Macri, and Mary Schirro, all of Ocean Springs.
She is survived by her daughter Clothilde Gigi Daniels Reeks and her adopted daughter, Toni Lord ; by her granddaughter Olivia Delgado-Boru and her husband Marlon Delgado-Boru, and their children Eleanor and Harry Delgado-Boru, all of Baltimore, MD.; by her grandson Raymond Reeks Egers and his wife Elizabeth Egers, and their children Raymond Lucky Egers, and Javier Salinas of Biloxi, Zach Salinas of Atlanta, GA., and Heather Salinas and her son Jude of Slidell , LA.; by her nephew James Ash and his late wife Cathy Ash, and their daughters Caitlyn and Tiffany Ash, all of Marietta, GA.; by her nephew John P. Reeks and his wife Stephanie Thompson, and his children Emily Reeks and Jesse Reeks and his wife Lourdes Reeks.; by her dear and caring friends: Brenda Montgomery, Michele Thompson, Martha Thompson, Mary Martin, Vera Hanson,Dianne Laseter , and Jennifer Lovely.
Chloe's VA family at The Long Term Care Center made her final days fulfilling and happy: Her Home Care nurse Brenda Alexander and Nurse Practitioner Bruce Giamalva: and in Hospice, her Nurse-Practitioner Janice and her caring and attentive nurses and care givers:
Linda, Cat, Margie, Roxanne, Natisha, Gloria, Rosie, Margie, David, Robert. Loving and Untiring, Chloe Reeks will be missed and always remembered with love by her family and friends. She unselfishly donated her earthly body to the University of South Alabama Medical School. Dates will be announced for her memorial service and internment which will be held this Fall at the Biloxi VA Chapel with the VA Chaplin , the Rev. Gary Morris officiating. Internment will be in Evergreen Cemetary, Ocean Springs. Well done, Thou good and faithful servant. Blessed is the death of His saints in the eyes of the Lord. Please sign the online guestbook at www.riemannfamily.com.