Graveside services for Sylinda Dylene Tyson Baker, 57, were held June 14 at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, 2000 Mountain Creek Parkway in Dallas. Her cremains will be interred at the grave of her husband, Kenneth Baker, who was a Vietnam veteran.
Arrangements were under the direction of Eastgate Funeral Home in Garland.
She died suddenly May 17 in her Dallas home.
Sylinda was born Feb. 24, 1966, in Littlefield, Texas, to Caton and Darance (Bratton) Tyson. She and her two sisters grew up on the family cotton farm south of Maple, Texas. All three attended school in the Three Way Independent School District, which revolved around a nowclosed rural K-12 school near Maple. Sylinda graduated from Three Way in 1984. She treasured her years there even decades later. She loved attending the school reunions every other year in Lubbock, and she was looking forward to seeing everyone again in August.
She worked as a clerk and office administrator for many years before her health forced her to slow down. She was always fascinated by law though and read up on it every chance she could.
She and Kenneth Baker were married June 12, 1998, in Lubbock. They lived in Lubbock for many years before moving to the Dallas area around 2010. She moved to Fort Worth after Ken died in 2012 and returned to Dallas in 2022.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Baker; her mother, Darance Tyson; her paternal grandparents, John C. and Virgie Mae (Wynn) Tyson; and her maternal grandparents, S.E. and Jessie (Martin) Bratton. She was also preceded in death by her aunts Evelyn (Johnson) Davis and Wanda (Johnson) Kelley.
Survivors include her father, Caton Tyson, and her stepmother, Darla Tyson, both of Roanoke, Texas; her sisters, Dyrinda Tyson-Jones of Oklahoma City and Lykinda Cross of Garland; her nephew, Rayner Cross, of Laramie, Wyoming; and her nieces Hadley Cross of Durango, Colorado, and Claire Jones of Norman, Oklahoma. She is also survived by her aunts, Sygale Hall of Midland, Texas, and Maxine Roberson of Lubbock; her uncle, J.W. Tyson of Maple, Texas; and cousins scattered across the state and country.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the New Mexico Christian Children’s Home in Portales, New Mexico.