Dorothy Baird

BAIRD, JOHNSON, DOTSON, BRYANT, KENNEDY

Posted By: Jeannette Mahony
Date: 4/17/2009 at 16:14:39

Dorothy Marie Baird, 1921-2005, 84, of rural Wapello, Iowa died Friday, Oct. 7, 2005, at Prairie Ridge Care Center in Mediapolis. The daughter of Harry L. and Ines Johnson Dotson, she was born Jan. 1, 1921, on the family farm near Newport. On March 3, 1941, she married Kenneth Baird at Burlington. She was a graduate of Mediapolis High School and Burlington Junior College.

She began her professional career preparing tax returns for Jess Berry, later working for the Eland Agency, and was the first employee Pipemaster Corporation, retiring as Treasurer for Hawkeye Corporation in Mediapolis.

She was a member of the Messiah Lutheran Church in Burlington and was active in Lutheran and Christian fellowship activities. She was a past member of the Kings Daughters and a member of various business organizations.

Survivors include: her husband Kenneth "Kenny" Baird of rural Wapello; one daughter, Patty Bryant of Cedar Rapids; four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; and one sister, Harriet Kennedy of Yarmouth.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

The funeral service was at 10:30 a.m. Monday, at the Messiah Lutheran Church in Burlington with the Rev. Donald Hoornstra officiating. Interment followed at the Kossuth Cemetery in Mediapolis. Visitation was Sunday afternoon at the Hagele and Honts Funeral Home in Mediapolis. The family met with friends from 3 to 5 o'clock.

In lieu of flowers, memorials were established for the benefit of the Mediapolis Community Ambulance and the Messiah Lutheran Church.