Loretta M. Baird

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Loretta M. Baird, 89, of Eldorado, died Saturday, July 5, 2008, at Fountain View Nursing Home.

Services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, July 12, 2008, at Watson Funeral Home in Eldorado. Burial will be in Wolf Creek Cemetery. Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 11, 2008, at the funeral home.

She was born Sept. 11, 1918, in Eldorado to the late Earl and Zoa Elder. She married Jake Baird on Aug. 8, 1936, and he preceded her in death on Nov. 29, 1982.

Loretta is survived by her son, Larry and his wife Cindi; four grandchildren, Devon, Justin, Amber and Ashely; five great-grandchildren, Marissa, Avery, Kaitlin, Jakob and Nicholas; three brothers, William, Donald and Vernell Elder; and two sisters, Iona McCoy and Naomi Mathis.