Through the years, she played in school and was often asked to play for church in the absence of a pianist. After finishing high school in Afton, Wyoming, she attended the University of Utah her freshman year before attending Arizona State Teacher's College for two years and received her teaching certificate. After graduation she returned to Star Valley, Wyoming and taught first through sixth grades in a one-room schoolhouse for four years.
In 1943 she came to Utah during World War II and worked at the Defense Depot in Ogden from 1943 to 1953 and then at Hill Air Force Base for 1.5 years. While working in Ogden, she also occasionally played the piano/organ at the Berthana Ballroom and it was here that she met her husband, Orlin H. Baker as they danced, fell in love, married in the Logan temple (1952), and had four children together.
In 1957 she went to work for Bureau of Reclamation and then went on to working in the admitting office at both the Dee Memorial and McKay Dee Memorial Hospitals where she retired in 1978.
Twila had a great love for her heavenly father and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and visited the temple regularly. She served as ward organist for the Ogden 16th ward for as along as anyone can remember; in 1982-1985 she was instrumental in the completion of the history of the Ogden 16th Ward. Over the years she held many other positions: Organist for the Primary, Relief Society and MIA, Primary teacher, MIA teacher, Sunday school teacher, and Relief Society teacher for Homemaking and Mother Education.
In 1995 she moved from her home in Ogden and was the first resident at Country Pines assisted living in Clinton, Utah. Two years later, she became a resident of Heritage Park in Roy, Utah, where she spent her final years.
