Vice President of Mrs. Baird's bakery.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Wednesday, May 28, 1969, p. 3A:
Gun Wound Fatal To C. B. Baird, 65
C. B. Baird, 65, retired bakery executive, died at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday in Harris Hospital from a gunshot wound in the head.
Baird's wife heard a shot about 11 a.m. Tuesday in their home at 2209 Ward Parkway, said Dr. Feliks Gwozdz, Tarrant County deputy medical examiner.
She found Baird lying on the floor of their garage. A .22-caliber pistol was found nearby, police said.
Dr. Gwozdz said Tuesday the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Baird had been complaining of ill health recently, said the retired Mrs. Baird's Bakery vice president's son, C. B. Baird Jr.
Baird was the youngest son of the late Mrs. Ninnie L. Baird, founder of Mrs. Baird's Bakery, the nation's largest independent bakery operation.
He literally grew up with the family business. As a boy he and his brothers delivered the home-baked bread to customers by going from door to door carrying the loaves in baskets.
The kitchen-baked bread was so popular that Mrs. Baird expanded the business into a full-scale bakery. C. B. Baird went to work there Jan. 1, 1918.
By the time he retired as vice president in charge of the cake plant at Pearl and 6th Street Oct. 1, 1963, the family-managed bakery had expanded to nine plants in cities throughout the state.
Baird also was a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the company.
Survivors also include another son, Byron R. Baird of Fort Worth; two brothers, Hoyt Baird of Fort Worth and Roland Baird of Dallas; three sisters, Mrs. E. C. Cummins, Mrs. Edd Hyde and Mrs. Durward McDonald, all of Fort Worth, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services are incomplete at Robertson-Mueller-Harper.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Wednesday, May 28, 1969, p. 3A:
Gun Wound Fatal To C. B. Baird, 65
C. B. Baird, 65, retired bakery executive, died at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday in Harris Hospital from a gunshot wound in the head.
Baird's wife heard a shot about 11 a.m. Tuesday in their home at 2209 Ward Parkway, said Dr. Feliks Gwozdz, Tarrant County deputy medical examiner.
She found Baird lying on the floor of their garage. A .22-caliber pistol was found nearby, police said.
Dr. Gwozdz said Tuesday the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Baird had been complaining of ill health recently, said the retired Mrs. Baird's Bakery vice president's son, C. B. Baird Jr.
Baird was the youngest son of the late Mrs. Ninnie L. Baird, founder of Mrs. Baird's Bakery, the nation's largest independent bakery operation.
He literally grew up with the family business. As a boy he and his brothers delivered the home-baked bread to customers by going from door to door carrying the loaves in baskets.
The kitchen-baked bread was so popular that Mrs. Baird expanded the business into a full-scale bakery. C. B. Baird went to work there Jan. 1, 1918.
By the time he retired as vice president in charge of the cake plant at Pearl and 6th Street Oct. 1, 1963, the family-managed bakery had expanded to nine plants in cities throughout the state.
Baird also was a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the company.
Survivors also include another son, Byron R. Baird of Fort Worth; two brothers, Hoyt Baird of Fort Worth and Roland Baird of Dallas; three sisters, Mrs. E. C. Cummins, Mrs. Edd Hyde and Mrs. Durward McDonald, all of Fort Worth, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services are incomplete at Robertson-Mueller-Harper.
Vice President of Mrs. Baird's bakery.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Wednesday, May 28, 1969, p. 3A:
Gun Wound Fatal To C. B. Baird, 65
C. B. Baird, 65, retired bakery executive, died at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday in Harris Hospital from a gunshot wound in the head.
Baird's wife heard a shot about 11 a.m. Tuesday in their home at 2209 Ward Parkway, said Dr. Feliks Gwozdz, Tarrant County deputy medical examiner.
She found Baird lying on the floor of their garage. A .22-caliber pistol was found nearby, police said.
Dr. Gwozdz said Tuesday the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Baird had been complaining of ill health recently, said the retired Mrs. Baird's Bakery vice president's son, C. B. Baird Jr.
Baird was the youngest son of the late Mrs. Ninnie L. Baird, founder of Mrs. Baird's Bakery, the nation's largest independent bakery operation.
He literally grew up with the family business. As a boy he and his brothers delivered the home-baked bread to customers by going from door to door carrying the loaves in baskets.
The kitchen-baked bread was so popular that Mrs. Baird expanded the business into a full-scale bakery. C. B. Baird went to work there Jan. 1, 1918.
By the time he retired as vice president in charge of the cake plant at Pearl and 6th Street Oct. 1, 1963, the family-managed bakery had expanded to nine plants in cities throughout the state.
Baird also was a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the company.
Survivors also include another son, Byron R. Baird of Fort Worth; two brothers, Hoyt Baird of Fort Worth and Roland Baird of Dallas; three sisters, Mrs. E. C. Cummins, Mrs. Edd Hyde and Mrs. Durward McDonald, all of Fort Worth, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services are incomplete at Robertson-Mueller-Harper.
From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Wednesday, May 28, 1969, p. 3A:
Gun Wound Fatal To C. B. Baird, 65
C. B. Baird, 65, retired bakery executive, died at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday in Harris Hospital from a gunshot wound in the head.
Baird's wife heard a shot about 11 a.m. Tuesday in their home at 2209 Ward Parkway, said Dr. Feliks Gwozdz, Tarrant County deputy medical examiner.
She found Baird lying on the floor of their garage. A .22-caliber pistol was found nearby, police said.
Dr. Gwozdz said Tuesday the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Baird had been complaining of ill health recently, said the retired Mrs. Baird's Bakery vice president's son, C. B. Baird Jr.
Baird was the youngest son of the late Mrs. Ninnie L. Baird, founder of Mrs. Baird's Bakery, the nation's largest independent bakery operation.
He literally grew up with the family business. As a boy he and his brothers delivered the home-baked bread to customers by going from door to door carrying the loaves in baskets.
The kitchen-baked bread was so popular that Mrs. Baird expanded the business into a full-scale bakery. C. B. Baird went to work there Jan. 1, 1918.
By the time he retired as vice president in charge of the cake plant at Pearl and 6th Street Oct. 1, 1963, the family-managed bakery had expanded to nine plants in cities throughout the state.
Baird also was a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the company.
Survivors also include another son, Byron R. Baird of Fort Worth; two brothers, Hoyt Baird of Fort Worth and Roland Baird of Dallas; three sisters, Mrs. E. C. Cummins, Mrs. Edd Hyde and Mrs. Durward McDonald, all of Fort Worth, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services are incomplete at Robertson-Mueller-Harper.
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