Former Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker announced Saturday that his wife, Christa Beverly Baker, has died.

“Today I lost the love of my life, my best friend, and the source of all my strength,” Baker said in a tweet. “She was our rock - the absolutely best mother to my kids and wife to me. She spent her life fighting injustice, inequities, and, for the last decade, illness with grace and grit.”

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Baker said that when Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt, who died in 2016, revealed in 2011 that she had early-onset dementia "Alzheimer's type," it inspired him and his family to go public with Christa’s diagnosis of the same disease.

"When she [Summitt] came out to raise this awareness, it helped us as a family. And so, her passing is a great loss for us," said Baker, a 2022 candidate for governor.

Baker said it was little things that did not make sense. He said, ultimately, he and his children sought help when Christa got lost driving through her childhood neighborhood in the Richmond area. At the time, she was 48.