Mrs. J. L.  Baird  aka "Billie or Wilma Baird"
Some Photos from Over the Ages

NEW - 5 legal-sized pages of the Baird Brown Genealogy are posted at http://picasaweb.google.com/mikebaird/2007_11_10_baird_Brown_family_tree 
and also at Flickr at the “Baird Brown Genealogy” set at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/sets/72157603069748544/  (the same images are posted for redundancy). James Lloyd Baird (Athens, GA, circa 1970), deceased father of Michael Lloyd Baird, created these 5 legal-sized pages documenting his research on the family tree. Michael "Mike" Lloyd Baird, Morro Bay, CA 2007 photographed these documents - mike at mikebaird.com. These images are saved at the highest quality and resolution possible with an 8MP Canon 20D digital camera.

Click a thumbnail below to enlarge.  Some files may be slow to load.  Best viewed with Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher with automatic image re-sizing.  Edited by Mike Baird 11/10/2007 .  This page is http://mikebaird.com/mom/

4 MB PowerPoint presentation (note: very long download!) (from 2002 90th birthday party)

Born March 8, 1912... the photos below are more-or-less in chronological order...

 
 


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Other photos

July 15, 2000 Athens, Pictures

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July 15-16, 2004, Mike and Jim's visit to Athens, GA;  Mom 92, on a walk around the neighborhood

July 18, 2004 Mike and Mom walking Homewood Hills, we see five deer nearby.

This photo was taken in 2004 for the church directory at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens, GA

July 15, 2005 Mike visits Athens, Jim and Corey come July 16, 2005.

(Corey's girl friend Kelly is shown at the left in this photo... she was not in Athens with us... this photo is from Corey's new Casio Exilim EXZ750 7MP Digital Camera storage card)
July 16, 2005, Jim and Corey join Mike and Mom in Athens, GA

(Mom is 93 years old and looking better than before)

Mom's 94th Birthday - March 8, 2006

March 2 - 9, 2006, Mike Visits Athens - Jim comes over for part of Saturday 3-4-06.
Mom is turning 94 on 3-8-06, and looking better than ever.
We attended the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens service on Sunday 3-5-06, where our good friend and minister, the Reverend Terre Balof, welcomed us and even had the congregation sing "Happy Birthday Billie."

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March 8, 2006 - at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, where Mom volunteers

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Mom wrote this letter to the Editor of the Athens Banner Herald, and it was published in April 6, 2006 (Athens, GA)
http://onlineathens.com/stories/040606/letters_20060406043.shtml (print-ready version) Free registration may be required to access this page
"Billie Baird: Library employees deserve more money

This is my first letter to an editor in my 94 years. It is to bring attention to the low salaries paid to the employees of the Athens-Clarke County Library.

If the county commissioners would visit the library, they would see it is always busy. A great number of programs go on all day, and most evenings. Babies, teens and adults are educated and entertained. There is computer training, book reviews are held at different times, there is a large-print book section, Sunday entertainment in the auditorium and even a large, quiet area for University of Georgia students.

For all the work they do, the employees deserve a larger budget, for they make life better for thousands of us.

Billie Baird"

Visit 3-10-07 to celebrate Mom's 95th Birthday in Athens, GA
You can also see these four photos on the Baird family set at Flickr and 10march2007 set
Related video including these photos and some video footage is posted at Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQvclsUcanU

(More like this one at Picasaweb)

Mom at age 95 or 96 (2007 or 2008) serving at the volunteer desk at the U. of Georgia Botanical Gardens.
Looking beautiful.

Mrs. J. L. Baird aka "Wilma" or "Billie" Baird, Athens, Georgia DOB 3-18-1912
go to mikebaird.com