James A. Baker \u2013 36 \u2013 of 27 Crosby St., Hornell, died unexpectedly on Saturday (July 31, 2021) at his home.<\/p>\n
Born in McKinney, TX on July 22, 1985, he was the son of Rose Daniels.<\/p>\n
A resident of New York State for most of his adult life, James was a graduate of Marcus Whitman High School in Rushville, NY.\u00a0 He had also resided in Canandaigua, Penn Yan, Crystle Beach, Wallace and has lived in Hornell for the past 6 years.\u00a0 Throughout the years he worked many jobs and most recently began working for Janitronics Janitorial Service of Western, NY.<\/p>\n
James had a deep appreciation of music and enjoyed going live concerts, especially \u201cJelly Roll\u201d and \u201cDMX\u201d.\u00a0 He was extremely proud of his \u201cBody Art\u201d (tattoos) and was a Dallas Cowboy Football fan.<\/p>\n
He also loved spending time browsing the internet and keeping in touch with family & friends on Facebook.\u00a0 He especially enjoyed spending time with his fianc\u00e9 and his children.<\/p>\n
Surviving are his fianc\u00e9, Jenna Pierson with whom he resided; 4 children, Izzy Baker, Hayden Baker, Remeigh Daniels & Lyric Daniels; 2 step-children, Bella Orellana & Karson Pierson; his mother, Rose Daniels of Oklahoma City, OK; 1 sister, Sherry Pennington of Texas; aunts, uncle, cousins, nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n
There will be no calling hours.\u00a0 Private services will be held at the convenience of the family.<\/p>\n
Funeral arrangements are in care of the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.<\/strong><\/p>\n James\u2019 family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name may be made to Casa-Trinity, 86 River St., Hornell, NY 14843<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James A. Baker \u2013 36 \u2013 of 27 Crosby St., Hornell, died unexpectedly on Saturday (July 31, 2021) at his home. Born in McKinney, TX on July 22, 1985, he was the son of Rose Daniels. A resident of New York State for most of his adult life, James was a graduate of Marcus Whitman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}