Sandra "Sandy" Baker Millard

Sandra Baker Millard passed away suddenly at her home in Nacogdoches on February 6, 2025. The family will receive friends, Thursday, February 13, 2025, from 5:00 until 7:00 PM at the funeral home. Services will be Friday, February 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM at Cason Monk Metcalf Funeral Home, and graveside at Woodlawn Cemetery in Houston, Texas on Saturday the 15th at 10 AM.

Sandy was born in Houston, Texas to Edwin Baker and Betty Key Baker, the younger sister to Sharon Baker Johnson on December 18, 1951, surrounded by a large loving family of Aunts and Uncles and numerous cousins. Sandy loved her big family and was the glue that kept them together for most of her life.

Sandy grew up in Houston, but the Bakers had a beach house in Galveston and a farm in Schulenberg, Texas. Most weekends of her youth, numerous kids were gathered up for adventures with Aunt B and Uncle Eddie as everyone called her parents. Her favorite place was the beach. She would pack a couple of bathing suits and spend all of her time on the water with her family, friends, and neighbors. Cousins Susie and Ginger were closest in age and the three were inseparable most of their lives.

She was vibrant and funny and loved family stories, along with being fiercely loyal to her clan. In 2000 she met Taylor Millard through her cousin Tucker Key. The friendship was immediate as both loved to laugh and appreciated each other’s sharp wit. They married in 2002 at Old North Baptist Church and made Nacogdoches their home. She came to love her husband’s hometown and never missed Houston traffic.

Sandy had a business for 35 years, with her mother the first few years, making Homecoming Mums, a Texas thing, building the business to a statewide operation, manufacturing and selling thousands of mums and garters annually. She would say, “I couldn’t have done it without Teresa Pavelec”, her employee and friend. Sandy retired in 2019 to focus on her favorite thing in this world, her grandchildren. Anyone that ever knew Sandy would say she loved children more than anything in this world.

She is survived by her mother Betty Key Baker, sister Sharon Baker Johnson and husband Ronnie, husband Taylor Millard, son David Lambert, cherished grandson Thristan Venglar, stepdaughter Alban Millard Benitez, stepson Robert Taylor Millard , many grandchildren, numerous cousins and her oldest sweet friend Vivian Sands.

Our world has changed. What do we do now?

Donations in her name may be sent to her beloved Old North Baptist Church PO Box 632861 Nacogdoches, TX 75963