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Submitted: 10/21/21 • Approved: 10/22/21 • Last Updated: 10/25/21 • R464407-G0-S3
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS US Army
World War II
December 11, 1912-December 30, 1986
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
C.C. BAIRD
Wheeler - C.C. "Pete" Baird, 74 died Tuesday Dec. 30, 1986 in Amarillo, TX.
Services will be at 2 pm Jan. 1, 1987 in the First Baptist Church of Wheeler with the Rev. M.B. Smith, retired pastor and Rev. Max Baird of Goodnight, TX officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Baird was born in Knox County, TX, lived in Kelton and Wheeler most of his life. He was an Army veteran of WW II. He was married to Bessie Anderson on Dec 26, 1948. He was a farmer and a member of the VFW. For the past two years, he and his wife have lived at the Good Samaritan Retirement Center in Amarillo, Tx.
Survivors include his wife, a brother J T Baird of Amarillo, and four sisters: Ola Lee Hamilton of Pampa, Gillrie Rogers of Sudan, TX, Lucille Anderson of Midland, TX, and Loraine Wagner of Wheeler.
(Published in the Amarillo Globe-News 1/1/1987)
Contributed on 10/21/21
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