Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Baird, Elizabeth G. (Boyer) 1960 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net January 4, 2010, 1:37 pm Ionia Daily Sentinel, 8 & 11 Nov 1960 Mrs. Elizabeth Grace Baird, 88, of 611 East Lincoln avenue, died early Tuesday morning in an Ionia convalescent home. She had been in ill health the past several years. Born March 31, 1872 in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Chauncey and Susan Boyer, she was married in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania to Oliver Clark Baird. He preceded her in death November 9, 1924. They moved from Pennsylvania to McBride in 1933 and came to Ionia in 1945. She was a member of the Methodist church in Pennsylvania and the Rebakah lodge in McBride. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Earl Davis and Mrs. Lillian McFeaters of Ionia, and Mrs. Jane Lehman of Pittsburgh, Pa.; one son, Blaine C. Baird of Cannon Falls, Minn.; nine grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. A son, Elwood, died in April of 1960. Funeral service will be Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from Phelps funeral chapel. The Rev. Harold Jayne will officiate with interment in the family lot in McBride. ---------- Funeral service for Mrs. Elizabeth G. Baird, 88, of 611 East Lincoln avenue, who died early Tuesday morning, was held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Phelps funeral chapel. The Rev. Harold A. Jayne officiated and interment was in the family lot at McBride cemetery. Bearers were Robert Baird, Guy Messacar, Emmett Getts, Elmo Patton, Clarence Misner and Victor Larson. Relatives attending from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Guy Messacar of Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Baird of Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. George Stout of Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Griffith of Kalamazoo and Mrs. Jack Hyland of Muskegon, Mrs. Manlus Granso of Hesperia, Mrs. Barney Szumal of Mt. Clemens, Mrs. Earl Lehman of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mr. and Mrs. Blaine C. Baird of Cannon Falls, Minn. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/baird2115nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb