Flora Jean (Baker) Gay

Flora Jean (Baker) Gay, 91, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, passed peacefully on December 21, 2025.

Born to Jesus Botello and Florence Drake Botello on November 11, 1934, in English West Virginia.

She had 5 siblings, with one, Sylvia Stovall, who lovingly helped care for her in her illness these past few months, to which the family was grateful for.

She is survived by her children; Kathy Jean Stuckey, Tecumseh Oklahoma, Kem Ray Baker, Sacramento California and Janice Marie Wade, Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Jean has 7 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild.  

She was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, George Lee Baker, one son, Allen Drake Baker, 2 sisters and 3 brothers.

She later married Richard Gay of Shawnee, Oklahoma on April 23, 2021. They were married in Shawnee at the Living Love Church with a host of family and friends. Not long after they married, she fell and broke her back. She had many health challenges since. Her husband did his best to care for her in her times of weakness and illness.

Jean loved cooking and baking for others, and a meal around the table with loved ones and friends were her most delight. She was famous for her great cooking abilities, and most famous for her pies of any kind but mostly coconut cream pie.

Her great grandsons always looked forward to coming to Oklahoma for a visit and eating their grandma Jeans pies. They had special requests often of their favorite.

He was a nurse of 25 years on the oncology floor of the Presbyterian Hospital and was a natural gifted care giver. Even after retiring, she continued to care for the sick voluntarily and especially those passing from this life…giving all she had for their comfort and care.

She was always willing to work for her church and do whatever she could in ministry for her church.

One of the things Jean loved doing was a garage sale yearly if she could talk her daughter Janice into it. For her it was an event! She loved watching people come and go, making them a really good deal, and most often giving away to someone she felt needed and couldn’t afford. One of her greatest gifts was the gift of organization, and it served her well in a garage sale!

Although at times she was reserved, she loved laughing and had a great sense of humor that her children loved carrying on.

She loved Gospel music and shared many times with her children what those songs meant to her.

She was at complete peace as she took her last breath, passing this life into the arms of Jesus, and will be greatly missed by family and friends.

Visitation will be held Saturday December 27, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Cooper Funeral Home, Tecumseh Oklahoma, continuing thru service time. Service will be held at 2:00 p.m.  Monday, December 29, 2025, at Living Love Christian Center, Shawnee, Oklahoma with Pastor Mark Guinn officiating. Burial to follow at Brown Cemetery, Tecumseh, Oklahoma, under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home.