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Byron Buchanan Baird

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Byron Buchanan Baird Veteran

Birth
Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana, USA
Death
18 Jul 1964 (aged 65)
Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
1900 addition
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Byron B. Baird, 65, former Frankfort resident and World War I veteran, died Saturday at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Rosenburg, Oregon, after being in failing health for five years. He had resided at 1710 Jefferson St. , Kokomo.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Goodwin Funeral Home with Rev. George W. Smith officiating. Burial will be in Bunnell Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. Saturday, it was announced.

Mr. Baird, who served in France during World War I, left Frankfort when he was 15. His father was Clinton County Superintendent of Schools from 1904-1912.

His son Billy B. Baird, lost his life in the Japanese attack on Peal Harbor in World War II.

Mr. Baird was born in Clinton County on October 22, 1898, the son of Oscar S. and Ella Denison Baird.

He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Emil Gram of Corpus Christi, Texas; two sisters, Mamie Blinn of Frankfort and Mrs. Ella B. Gilpin of Kokomo; one brother, Merton N. Baird of Fort Wayne; and three grandchildren.

One sister, and two brothers, also preceded him in death.

Source: Frankfort Morning Times, July 21, 1964, pg 10
Byron B. Baird, 65, former Frankfort resident and World War I veteran, died Saturday at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Rosenburg, Oregon, after being in failing health for five years. He had resided at 1710 Jefferson St. , Kokomo.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Goodwin Funeral Home with Rev. George W. Smith officiating. Burial will be in Bunnell Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. Saturday, it was announced.

Mr. Baird, who served in France during World War I, left Frankfort when he was 15. His father was Clinton County Superintendent of Schools from 1904-1912.

His son Billy B. Baird, lost his life in the Japanese attack on Peal Harbor in World War II.

Mr. Baird was born in Clinton County on October 22, 1898, the son of Oscar S. and Ella Denison Baird.

He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Emil Gram of Corpus Christi, Texas; two sisters, Mamie Blinn of Frankfort and Mrs. Ella B. Gilpin of Kokomo; one brother, Merton N. Baird of Fort Wayne; and three grandchildren.

One sister, and two brothers, also preceded him in death.

Source: Frankfort Morning Times, July 21, 1964, pg 10


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