Nancy L. Baker loved her "girls" -- her twin aunts, Willie Alcorn Wells and Nannie Alcorn Wright, whom she moved in with in 2001, when they were 98 years old.

Ms. Baker, a retired dietitian who had lived in Florida since 1970, became their companion, chauffeur and caretaker so that the widowed and childless sisters, who were rarely separated during their lives, could stay together in their shared Richmond home.

Ms. Baker, 69, died June 30 in Richmond.

In a 2004 Times-Dispatch interview, she recalled how the sisters, who were nurses, put their training to use for the family. Nannie "came to Florida to take care of my mom when she was sick," Ms. Baker said. "They traded off months going to care for their mother in North Carolina. They took in their 92-year-old sister and cared for her until they were unable to do it anymore."

Ms. Baker kept up the family tradition. She made sure they got their favorite breakfast -- buttercream coffeecake and hot coffee, served with a morning newspaper.

She took her aunts to beauty salon appointments and almost daily luncheon dates at a restaurant, where the twins ordered one entrée and split it.

She saw them through cataract surgery, Nannie's nasty fall and arthritis, and Willie's pacemaker.

Ms. Baker gently would remind her aunts not to trim the hedge or change hard-to-reach light bulbs but kept a discreet eye on them while they continued to do what they still could do, such as washing the dishes and doing laundry.

She drove them several times a year to her home in Leesburg, Fla. She took them to Sea World in Orlando and to celebrate Christmas with their nephew in Florida. She took them to their family farm in North Carolina and to an'N Sync concert in Washington.

In 2004 she comforted Willie when Nannie died after suffering a fall not long before their 102nd birthday.

Afterward, life went on as Ms. Baker took Willie to a national twins convention, where she was celebrated as the oldest attendee. She took Willie to Nashville, Tenn., where country music legend Porter Wagoner noted from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry that she was in attendance.

By 2006, Willie, using a cane she named for her twin, was walking ahead and opening doors for Ms. Baker, who had rheumatoid arthritis and walked with two canes.

Survivors include a brother, Thomas D. Alcorn of New Smyrna Beach, Fla.; and her 105-year-old aunt, Willie A. Wells of Richmond.

A funeral will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Hamlin & Hilbush Funeral Directors Chapel in Eustis, Fla. A private burial will be held in Greenwood Cemetery in Eustis.