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Ralph Ehrman Baird 1888 - 1963

BAIRD, WALKINSHAW, BRAS, MCELHINNEY

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Date: 5/28/2017 at 11:26:22

Ralph Baird Dies in Wapello

Mr. Ralph E. Baird, 75, died Sunday (December 8, 1963) at 8:10 p.m. at the Poage nursing home in Wapello.

He was the son of James Wallace and Maryanna Walkinshaw Baird, and was born near Garland, Iowa, on June 4, 1888.

On December 21, 1916, he was married to Fannie Vivian Bras. The couple lived in the Wapello-Morning Sun area where they farmed. His wife died in 1941.

On February 24, 1944, he was married to Olive McElhinney who survives, as do four sons and a daughter: Philip of DeKalb, Illinois; James of Davenport; Lloyd of Cedar Rapids; Donald of North Liberty; Mrs. Warren Durst of Muscatine; two brothers and a sister: Merrill Baird of Morning Sun; Oliver Baird of Tarkio, Missouri; Mrs. Blanch Meyers of Santa Ana, California; and eight grandchildren.

Services were Wednesday at the Reformed Presbyterian church in Morning Sun with the Dr. John O. Edgar officiating. Burial was in the Sharon cemetery.

Morning Sun News-Herald, 12 Dec 1963


 

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