Mildred 'Millie' Baynor, Baltimore social worker - Baltimore Sun
Mildred "Millie" Baynor, a 21-year employee at the Enoch Pratt central library and longtime Baltimore social worker, died Tuesday at her Gwynn Oak home after a brief illness. She was 89. The daughter of William McKinley Kirkland and Mildred Vivian Brooks Kirkland, Mildred Louise Kirkland was born on April 4, 1926, and spent much of her life in Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood. She was the only daughter in a family of five children, growing up near Pennsylvania Avenue with the shops, jazz clubs and churches of its heyday. Central to her life was her faith, her granddaughter Torena Brown said. Brown said. Baynor contributed to several ministries at her church, St. Gregory the Great Roman Catholic Church, where she was a lifelong member. Brown said. One of her first jobs after graduating from high school in the early 1940s was as a munitions factory worker at Edgewood Arsenal during World War II. She also worked with her mother at a laundry in southeast Baltimore, where they cleaned, folded... The close-knit pair was known as "Big Millie" and "Little Millie. Baynor went on to have a career as a social worker in Baltimore, where she worked as a case manager helping families in need receive food stamps and access other services. While working for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, Ms. Baynor enrolled at Coppin State College, as it was known at the time,. Source: www.baltimoresun.com
