{"id":11903,"date":"2023-09-24T07:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T11:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/?p=11903"},"modified":"2023-09-24T07:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T11:11:47","slug":"baird-william-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/baird-william-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Baird, William E"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary\">\n<div class=\"obit-and-service__obituary__text\">\n<div class=\"obituary edit-container\">\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr. William E. Baird was born on October 15, 1930 in Duck River, TN to the late William Campbell and Sarah Ethel Cotton Baird and entered eternal rest on September 22, 2023 in Duck River, TN at the age of 92 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In addition to his parents Mr. Baird is preceded in death by his first wife, Shirley Baird. He is survived by his wife, Betty Stoltz Baird, daughters, Debbie Toney (Mike) and Michelle Lambert, grandchildren, Jodi Jackson (Eric), Steven Toney (Stephanie), Brody Lambert, Parker Lambert, and great-grandchildren, Austin Jackson, Jana Jackson-Gisey (Grant), Grady Jackson, Ezra Toney, Dexter Toney, Calvin Toney and Wyatt Toney along with a host of other family and friends including his church family at Totty&#8217;s Bend Church of Christ where he served as an Elder for many years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Mr. Baird loved his family and friends fiercely. He enjoyed nature and working around the farm. He proudly served his country in the United States Air Force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In lieu of flowers please make donations to the Totty&#8217;s Bend Church of Christ in Mr. Baird&#8217;s memory.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"obituary__section\">\n<div class=\"obituary__section__content\">\n<div class=\"event-7974937 location-block event-block \">\n<div class=\"location-block__body location-block__body--flex\">\n<div class=\"location-block__content\">\n<p class=\"event-block__dates\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Visitation with the family will be 25 Sep 2023 from 11:00 AM &#8211; 1:00 PM at McDonald Funeral Home, Inc. &#8211; Hickman County with Funeral Services to begin at 1:00 PM.\u00a0 Burial will follow at Totty&#8217;s Bend Cemetery, Duck River, TN.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. William E. Baird was born on October 15, 1930 in Duck River, TN to the late William Campbell and Sarah Ethel Cotton Baird and entered eternal rest on September 22, 2023 in Duck River, TN at the age of 92 years. In addition to his parents Mr. Baird is preceded in death by his first wife, Shirley Baird. He&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/baird-william-e\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3020,884,6150,263,6149,796,1250,1041],"class_list":["post-11903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","tag-baird","tag-cotton","tag-gisey","tag-jackson","tag-jackson-gisey","tag-lambert","tag-stoltz","tag-toney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}