Baird Dr Robert E 1998
DR. ROBERT E. BAIRD DIES AT 76; AS A GRANDFATHER, HE DELIVERED.(News)(Obituary)
Article from:Seattle Post-Intelligencer Article date:July 6, 1998 Author: Holt, Gordy More results for: "24th infantry division" +obituary
Longtime Seattle physician Robert E. Baird always said the two years he spent as a MASH doctor in Korea prepared him fully to deliver his own granddaughter while on a fishing trip in British Columbia.
``I don't remember it, of course,'' the granddaughter, Pamela Turner of Seattle, said last week, ``but I've heard the story more times than I can say.
``He did it, though. He told me he saw fish scales when he took off his rubber gloves.''
Turner likely will hear the story again as family and friends gather to remember Dr. Baird, who died late Tuesday while recovering from surgery at Providence Medical Center.
He was 76.
As the fish story goes, Pamela's mother, Susan Turner, refused to miss the family's annual fishing trip into the Canadian San Juan Islands even though she was more than eight months pregnant with Pamela. Sure enough, she went into labor while the family's rented boat was moored at the Maple Bay Marina near Duncan, B.C., and its Cowichan District Hospital.
What happened next in the early morning hours of Aug. 18, 1972, involved a Mountie who went to the wrong marina and ran out of gas, a wild ride to the hospital in the patrol car of a second Mountie and a local doctor who showed up late, recalled Steve Turner of Denver, Pamela's father.
At the hospital, Dr. Baird swung into action once it became clear there was no one else, a gown and gloves pulled over his fishing clothes.
``He was cool, calm and collected,'' Steve Turner said. ``But when it was over and he was holding the baby in his arms, you could see him start to shake.''
``When it was all over, everybody came home in the boat, through Customs and everything,'' said another of Dr. Baird's daughters, Barbara Dittman, of Seattle, who was 11 at the time. ``It was quite a trip.''
Dr. Baird's brother, Jim, of Hansville, nine years younger than his brother, recalled the football and basketball games his brother took him to as a kid.
``He was such a nice guy, just a nice, nice man,'' the younger Baird said. ``I wish I was more like him.''
Dr. Baird was a consummate Seattleite, who grew up in Magnolia, graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1939 and from the University of Washington in 1943. He earned his medical degree at George Washington University in 1947.
He interned at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, completed his residency at Providence Medical Center, and in 1950 shipped out to Korea with the 24th Infantry Division. In 1951 he became 8th Army pathologist in Pusan, South Korea, and while in the Army taught at the University of Oregon School of Medicine.
Mustered out in 1953, he opened an office in Seattle and practiced until his retirement in 1984.
In recent years, he was a volunteer pathologist for the Hope Heart Institute in Seattle.
Dr. Baird was preceded in death by his wife, Jeanne. Besides his daughters, brother and granddaughter, survivors include his longtime companion and friend, Betty Richardson of Bellevue; a sister, Lois Greenland of Edmonds; daughter Margaret Chapple of Honolulu; and three other grandchildren.
Services are tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at Acacia Funeral Home, 14951 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle.
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DR. ROBERT E. BAIRD DIES AT 76; AS A GRANDFATHER, HE DELIVERED.(News)(Obituary)
Article from:Seattle Post-Intelligencer Article date:July 6, 1998 Author: Holt, Gordy More results for: "24th infantry division" +obituary
Longtime Seattle physician Robert E. Baird always said the two years he spent as a MASH doctor in Korea prepared him fully to deliver his own granddaughter while on a fishing trip in British Columbia.
``I don't remember it, of course,'' the granddaughter, Pamela Turner of Seattle, said last week, ``but I've heard the story more times than I can say.
``He did it, though. He told me he saw fish scales when he took off his rubber gloves.''
Turner likely will hear the story again as family and friends gather to remember Dr. Baird, who died late Tuesday while recovering from surgery at Providence Medical Center.
He was 76.
As the fish story goes, Pamela's mother, Susan Turner, refused to miss the family's annual fishing trip into the Canadian San Juan Islands even though she was more than eight months pregnant with Pamela. Sure enough, she went into labor while the family's rented boat was moored at the Maple Bay Marina near Duncan, B.C., and its Cowichan District Hospital.
What happened next in the early morning hours of Aug. 18, 1972, involved a Mountie who went to the wrong marina and ran out of gas, a wild ride to the hospital in the patrol car of a second Mountie and a local doctor who showed up late, recalled Steve Turner of Denver, Pamela's father.
At the hospital, Dr. Baird swung into action once it became clear there was no one else, a gown and gloves pulled over his fishing clothes.
``He was cool, calm and collected,'' Steve Turner said. ``But when it was over and he was holding the baby in his arms, you could see him start to shake.''
``When it was all over, everybody came home in the boat, through Customs and everything,'' said another of Dr. Baird's daughters, Barbara Dittman, of Seattle, who was 11 at the time. ``It was quite a trip.''
Dr. Baird's brother, Jim, of Hansville, nine years younger than his brother, recalled the football and basketball games his brother took him to as a kid.
``He was such a nice guy, just a nice, nice man,'' the younger Baird said. ``I wish I was more like him.''
Dr. Baird was a consummate Seattleite, who grew up in Magnolia, graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1939 and from the University of Washington in 1943. He earned his medical degree at George Washington University in 1947.
He interned at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, completed his residency at Providence Medical Center, and in 1950 shipped out to Korea with the 24th Infantry Division. In 1951 he became 8th Army pathologist in Pusan, South Korea, and while in the Army taught at the University of Oregon School of Medicine.
Mustered out in 1953, he opened an office in Seattle and practiced until his retirement in 1984.
In recent years, he was a volunteer pathologist for the Hope Heart Institute in Seattle.
Dr. Baird was preceded in death by his wife, Jeanne. Besides his daughters, brother and granddaughter, survivors include his longtime companion and friend, Betty Richardson of Bellevue; a sister, Lois Greenland of Edmonds; daughter Margaret Chapple of Honolulu; and three other grandchildren.
Services are tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at Acacia Funeral Home, 14951 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle.
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Baird Dr Robert E 1998
DR. ROBERT E. BAIRD DIES AT 76; AS A GRANDFATHER, HE DELIVERED.(News)(Obituary)
Article from:Seattle Post-Intelligencer Article date:July 6, 1998 Author: Holt, Gordy More results for: "24th infantry division" +obituary
Longtime Seattle physician Robert E. Baird always said the two years he spent as a MASH doctor in Korea prepared him fully to deliver his own granddaughter while on a fishing trip in British Columbia.
``I don't remember it, of course,'' the granddaughter, Pamela Turner of Seattle, said last week, ``but I've heard the story more times than I can say.
``He did it, though. He told me he saw fish scales when he took off his rubber gloves.''
Turner likely will hear the story again as family and friends gather to remember Dr. Baird, who died late Tuesday while recovering from surgery at Providence Medical Center.
He was 76.
As the fish story goes, Pamela's mother, Susan Turner, refused to miss the family's annual fishing trip into the Canadian San Juan Islands even though she was more than eight months pregnant with Pamela. Sure enough, she went into labor while the family's rented boat was moored at the Maple Bay Marina near Duncan, B.C., and its Cowichan District Hospital.
What happened next in the early morning hours of Aug. 18, 1972, involved a Mountie who went to the wrong marina and ran out of gas, a wild ride to the hospital in the patrol car of a second Mountie and a local doctor who showed up late, recalled Steve Turner of Denver, Pamela's father.
At the hospital, Dr. Baird swung into action once it became clear there was no one else, a gown and gloves pulled over his fishing clothes.
``He was cool, calm and collected,'' Steve Turner said. ``But when it was over and he was holding the baby in his arms, you could see him start to shake.''
``When it was all over, everybody came home in the boat, through Customs and everything,'' said another of Dr. Baird's daughters, Barbara Dittman, of Seattle, who was 11 at the time. ``It was quite a trip.''
Dr. Baird's brother, Jim, of Hansville, nine years younger than his brother, recalled the football and basketball games his brother took him to as a kid.
``He was such a nice guy, just a nice, nice man,'' the younger Baird said. ``I wish I was more like him.''
Dr. Baird was a consummate Seattleite, who grew up in Magnolia, graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1939 and from the University of Washington in 1943. He earned his medical degree at George Washington University in 1947.
He interned at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, completed his residency at Providence Medical Center, and in 1950 shipped out to Korea with the 24th Infantry Division. In 1951 he became 8th Army pathologist in Pusan, South Korea, and while in the Army taught at the University of Oregon School of Medicine.
Mustered out in 1953, he opened an office in Seattle and practiced until his retirement in 1984.
In recent years, he was a volunteer pathologist for the Hope Heart Institute in Seattle.
Dr. Baird was preceded in death by his wife, Jeanne. Besides his daughters, brother and granddaughter, survivors include his longtime companion and friend, Betty Richardson of Bellevue; a sister, Lois Greenland of Edmonds; daughter Margaret Chapple of Honolulu; and three other grandchildren.
Services are tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at Acacia Funeral Home, 14951 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle.
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DR. ROBERT E. BAIRD DIES AT 76; AS A GRANDFATHER, HE DELIVERED.(News)(Obituary)
Article from:Seattle Post-Intelligencer Article date:July 6, 1998 Author: Holt, Gordy More results for: "24th infantry division" +obituary
Longtime Seattle physician Robert E. Baird always said the two years he spent as a MASH doctor in Korea prepared him fully to deliver his own granddaughter while on a fishing trip in British Columbia.
``I don't remember it, of course,'' the granddaughter, Pamela Turner of Seattle, said last week, ``but I've heard the story more times than I can say.
``He did it, though. He told me he saw fish scales when he took off his rubber gloves.''
Turner likely will hear the story again as family and friends gather to remember Dr. Baird, who died late Tuesday while recovering from surgery at Providence Medical Center.
He was 76.
As the fish story goes, Pamela's mother, Susan Turner, refused to miss the family's annual fishing trip into the Canadian San Juan Islands even though she was more than eight months pregnant with Pamela. Sure enough, she went into labor while the family's rented boat was moored at the Maple Bay Marina near Duncan, B.C., and its Cowichan District Hospital.
What happened next in the early morning hours of Aug. 18, 1972, involved a Mountie who went to the wrong marina and ran out of gas, a wild ride to the hospital in the patrol car of a second Mountie and a local doctor who showed up late, recalled Steve Turner of Denver, Pamela's father.
At the hospital, Dr. Baird swung into action once it became clear there was no one else, a gown and gloves pulled over his fishing clothes.
``He was cool, calm and collected,'' Steve Turner said. ``But when it was over and he was holding the baby in his arms, you could see him start to shake.''
``When it was all over, everybody came home in the boat, through Customs and everything,'' said another of Dr. Baird's daughters, Barbara Dittman, of Seattle, who was 11 at the time. ``It was quite a trip.''
Dr. Baird's brother, Jim, of Hansville, nine years younger than his brother, recalled the football and basketball games his brother took him to as a kid.
``He was such a nice guy, just a nice, nice man,'' the younger Baird said. ``I wish I was more like him.''
Dr. Baird was a consummate Seattleite, who grew up in Magnolia, graduated from Queen Anne High School in 1939 and from the University of Washington in 1943. He earned his medical degree at George Washington University in 1947.
He interned at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, completed his residency at Providence Medical Center, and in 1950 shipped out to Korea with the 24th Infantry Division. In 1951 he became 8th Army pathologist in Pusan, South Korea, and while in the Army taught at the University of Oregon School of Medicine.
Mustered out in 1953, he opened an office in Seattle and practiced until his retirement in 1984.
In recent years, he was a volunteer pathologist for the Hope Heart Institute in Seattle.
Dr. Baird was preceded in death by his wife, Jeanne. Besides his daughters, brother and granddaughter, survivors include his longtime companion and friend, Betty Richardson of Bellevue; a sister, Lois Greenland of Edmonds; daughter Margaret Chapple of Honolulu; and three other grandchildren.
Services are tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at Acacia Funeral Home, 14951 Bothell Way N.E., Seattle.
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