Mary Baird, 48, Called by Death at Sacramento
Mary Esther Dawson Baird, 48, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dawson, 243 North Ridge avenue, died Monday of a heart ailment at her home at Sacramento, Calif., according to word received by her parents.
Mrs. Baird was born at La Harpe, Ill., December 31, 1897, and moved to Idaho Falls with her parents in 1910.
She attended Idaho Falls schools and graduated from the local high school in 1916.
She attended Albion State Teachers College, and taught at Howe, Idaho, before going to Washington, D.C., where she was employed for three years with the war risk insurance department during World War I.
She later was employed with the law enforcement department at Salt Lake City and then moved to San Francisco and later to Sacramento.
Survivors besides her parents include three brothers, Paul Dawson, Idaho Falls; Wendell Dawson, Ketchikan, Alaska; Oliver Dawson, Shelley [ID]; and two sisters, Mrs. Amos [Dorothy] Curtis, Swan Valley [ID]; and Mrs. Don [Amy] Marshall, Oakland, Calif.
Funeral services will be held at Sacramento Wednesday. She will be cremated and Mr. and Mrs Marshall will attend the services.
Source: The Post-Register, Idaho Falls, ID, August 6, 1946, p. 6
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"Mary Esther Dawson was born at the lower Dawson place near La Harpe, IL, on December 31, 1897. She was ten years old when we moved to Estelline, South Dakota. We were living in Idaho Falls when she graduated from high school with her brother, Oliver, in May, 1916. That summer she attended summer school at Albion State Normal, Albion, Idaho, securing her teacher's certificate that enabled her to teach school that fall and winter in Howe, Idaho.
The following summer the excitement of World War I was sweeping the country and the demand for war workers in Washington, D. C. gave her the urge to enlist as such, so instead of returning to summer school she took a business course to prepare herself for secretarial work. In November, 1917, she entered the War Risk Insurance Department in Washington, D. C. where she remained until the close of the war.
Wanting to return to the West, she obtained a civil service transfer to the Revenue Division in Salt Lake City, from where she later went to Los Angeles, and was married on May 25, 1925, to Lloyd Hyde, a young man from Brookings, South Dakota, was in the life insurance business. He was an ex-service man whom she had met in Salt Lake City. Lloyd died in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929.
Tess, as Mary Esther was known to family and close friends, again took up secretarial work, this time in San Francisco and Sacramento, and on May 16, 1933, was married to Dr. Harry Baird, a physician of Sacramento.
I think Esther must have had Irish blood in her veins — she was so full of humor, story telling and memories of so many people were always so familiar with her.
Resulting from a serious illness in Washington, D. C. from which she had never fully recovered, she quietly left us in early morning of August 5, 1946, and her ashes were laid to rest in East Lawn Cemetery at Sacramento. She left a lonely husband, her own dear folks and many friends."
Excerpt from: "Memoirs and Kin to Me, Written During the Winter of 1947-1948" by Mary Finch Dawson, Mary Esther's mother.
Mary Esther Dawson Baird, 48, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dawson, 243 North Ridge avenue, died Monday of a heart ailment at her home at Sacramento, Calif., according to word received by her parents.
Mrs. Baird was born at La Harpe, Ill., December 31, 1897, and moved to Idaho Falls with her parents in 1910.
She attended Idaho Falls schools and graduated from the local high school in 1916.
She attended Albion State Teachers College, and taught at Howe, Idaho, before going to Washington, D.C., where she was employed for three years with the war risk insurance department during World War I.
She later was employed with the law enforcement department at Salt Lake City and then moved to San Francisco and later to Sacramento.
Survivors besides her parents include three brothers, Paul Dawson, Idaho Falls; Wendell Dawson, Ketchikan, Alaska; Oliver Dawson, Shelley [ID]; and two sisters, Mrs. Amos [Dorothy] Curtis, Swan Valley [ID]; and Mrs. Don [Amy] Marshall, Oakland, Calif.
Funeral services will be held at Sacramento Wednesday. She will be cremated and Mr. and Mrs Marshall will attend the services.
Source: The Post-Register, Idaho Falls, ID, August 6, 1946, p. 6
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"Mary Esther Dawson was born at the lower Dawson place near La Harpe, IL, on December 31, 1897. She was ten years old when we moved to Estelline, South Dakota. We were living in Idaho Falls when she graduated from high school with her brother, Oliver, in May, 1916. That summer she attended summer school at Albion State Normal, Albion, Idaho, securing her teacher's certificate that enabled her to teach school that fall and winter in Howe, Idaho.
The following summer the excitement of World War I was sweeping the country and the demand for war workers in Washington, D. C. gave her the urge to enlist as such, so instead of returning to summer school she took a business course to prepare herself for secretarial work. In November, 1917, she entered the War Risk Insurance Department in Washington, D. C. where she remained until the close of the war.
Wanting to return to the West, she obtained a civil service transfer to the Revenue Division in Salt Lake City, from where she later went to Los Angeles, and was married on May 25, 1925, to Lloyd Hyde, a young man from Brookings, South Dakota, was in the life insurance business. He was an ex-service man whom she had met in Salt Lake City. Lloyd died in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929.
Tess, as Mary Esther was known to family and close friends, again took up secretarial work, this time in San Francisco and Sacramento, and on May 16, 1933, was married to Dr. Harry Baird, a physician of Sacramento.
I think Esther must have had Irish blood in her veins — she was so full of humor, story telling and memories of so many people were always so familiar with her.
Resulting from a serious illness in Washington, D. C. from which she had never fully recovered, she quietly left us in early morning of August 5, 1946, and her ashes were laid to rest in East Lawn Cemetery at Sacramento. She left a lonely husband, her own dear folks and many friends."
Excerpt from: "Memoirs and Kin to Me, Written During the Winter of 1947-1948" by Mary Finch Dawson, Mary Esther's mother.
Mary Baird, 48, Called by Death at Sacramento
Mary Esther Dawson Baird, 48, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dawson, 243 North Ridge avenue, died Monday of a heart ailment at her home at Sacramento, Calif., according to word received by her parents.
Mrs. Baird was born at La Harpe, Ill., December 31, 1897, and moved to Idaho Falls with her parents in 1910.
She attended Idaho Falls schools and graduated from the local high school in 1916.
She attended Albion State Teachers College, and taught at Howe, Idaho, before going to Washington, D.C., where she was employed for three years with the war risk insurance department during World War I.
She later was employed with the law enforcement department at Salt Lake City and then moved to San Francisco and later to Sacramento.
Survivors besides her parents include three brothers, Paul Dawson, Idaho Falls; Wendell Dawson, Ketchikan, Alaska; Oliver Dawson, Shelley [ID]; and two sisters, Mrs. Amos [Dorothy] Curtis, Swan Valley [ID]; and Mrs. Don [Amy] Marshall, Oakland, Calif.
Funeral services will be held at Sacramento Wednesday. She will be cremated and Mr. and Mrs Marshall will attend the services.
Source: The Post-Register, Idaho Falls, ID, August 6, 1946, p. 6
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"Mary Esther Dawson was born at the lower Dawson place near La Harpe, IL, on December 31, 1897. She was ten years old when we moved to Estelline, South Dakota. We were living in Idaho Falls when she graduated from high school with her brother, Oliver, in May, 1916. That summer she attended summer school at Albion State Normal, Albion, Idaho, securing her teacher's certificate that enabled her to teach school that fall and winter in Howe, Idaho.
The following summer the excitement of World War I was sweeping the country and the demand for war workers in Washington, D. C. gave her the urge to enlist as such, so instead of returning to summer school she took a business course to prepare herself for secretarial work. In November, 1917, she entered the War Risk Insurance Department in Washington, D. C. where she remained until the close of the war.
Wanting to return to the West, she obtained a civil service transfer to the Revenue Division in Salt Lake City, from where she later went to Los Angeles, and was married on May 25, 1925, to Lloyd Hyde, a young man from Brookings, South Dakota, was in the life insurance business. He was an ex-service man whom she had met in Salt Lake City. Lloyd died in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929.
Tess, as Mary Esther was known to family and close friends, again took up secretarial work, this time in San Francisco and Sacramento, and on May 16, 1933, was married to Dr. Harry Baird, a physician of Sacramento.
I think Esther must have had Irish blood in her veins — she was so full of humor, story telling and memories of so many people were always so familiar with her.
Resulting from a serious illness in Washington, D. C. from which she had never fully recovered, she quietly left us in early morning of August 5, 1946, and her ashes were laid to rest in East Lawn Cemetery at Sacramento. She left a lonely husband, her own dear folks and many friends."
Excerpt from: "Memoirs and Kin to Me, Written During the Winter of 1947-1948" by Mary Finch Dawson, Mary Esther's mother.
Mary Esther Dawson Baird, 48, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dawson, 243 North Ridge avenue, died Monday of a heart ailment at her home at Sacramento, Calif., according to word received by her parents.
Mrs. Baird was born at La Harpe, Ill., December 31, 1897, and moved to Idaho Falls with her parents in 1910.
She attended Idaho Falls schools and graduated from the local high school in 1916.
She attended Albion State Teachers College, and taught at Howe, Idaho, before going to Washington, D.C., where she was employed for three years with the war risk insurance department during World War I.
She later was employed with the law enforcement department at Salt Lake City and then moved to San Francisco and later to Sacramento.
Survivors besides her parents include three brothers, Paul Dawson, Idaho Falls; Wendell Dawson, Ketchikan, Alaska; Oliver Dawson, Shelley [ID]; and two sisters, Mrs. Amos [Dorothy] Curtis, Swan Valley [ID]; and Mrs. Don [Amy] Marshall, Oakland, Calif.
Funeral services will be held at Sacramento Wednesday. She will be cremated and Mr. and Mrs Marshall will attend the services.
Source: The Post-Register, Idaho Falls, ID, August 6, 1946, p. 6
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"Mary Esther Dawson was born at the lower Dawson place near La Harpe, IL, on December 31, 1897. She was ten years old when we moved to Estelline, South Dakota. We were living in Idaho Falls when she graduated from high school with her brother, Oliver, in May, 1916. That summer she attended summer school at Albion State Normal, Albion, Idaho, securing her teacher's certificate that enabled her to teach school that fall and winter in Howe, Idaho.
The following summer the excitement of World War I was sweeping the country and the demand for war workers in Washington, D. C. gave her the urge to enlist as such, so instead of returning to summer school she took a business course to prepare herself for secretarial work. In November, 1917, she entered the War Risk Insurance Department in Washington, D. C. where she remained until the close of the war.
Wanting to return to the West, she obtained a civil service transfer to the Revenue Division in Salt Lake City, from where she later went to Los Angeles, and was married on May 25, 1925, to Lloyd Hyde, a young man from Brookings, South Dakota, was in the life insurance business. He was an ex-service man whom she had met in Salt Lake City. Lloyd died in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929.
Tess, as Mary Esther was known to family and close friends, again took up secretarial work, this time in San Francisco and Sacramento, and on May 16, 1933, was married to Dr. Harry Baird, a physician of Sacramento.
I think Esther must have had Irish blood in her veins — she was so full of humor, story telling and memories of so many people were always so familiar with her.
Resulting from a serious illness in Washington, D. C. from which she had never fully recovered, she quietly left us in early morning of August 5, 1946, and her ashes were laid to rest in East Lawn Cemetery at Sacramento. She left a lonely husband, her own dear folks and many friends."
Excerpt from: "Memoirs and Kin to Me, Written During the Winter of 1947-1948" by Mary Finch Dawson, Mary Esther's mother.
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