OBIT: Vern Harrison BAIRD, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Death of a Child. Vern Harrison Baird, the bright and interesting grandson of Joshua and Etta Baird, of 1309 Fifth avenue, died at their home at 7 o'clock Saturday evening, of diphtheria. He was taken ill on Tuesday evening. He was aged 4 years and 10 months. Besides his grandparents, he is survived by his mother. Funeral services will be conducted at the home by Rev. G. F. Snyder, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church at 9 o'clock this morning. Interment will be made in Rose Hill cemetery. Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, February 5, 1917