Nancy Merkel Trigg Baird

Inverness - NANCY MERKEL TRIGG BAIRD peacefully died on August 14, 2008. Visitation will be held Saturday, August 16, 2008 from 3 p.m. untilthe 4 p.m. service at All Saints Episcopal Church in Inverness. Burial will be in Hickory Grove Cemetery in Inverness. Mortimer Funeral Home ofIndianola is in charge of arrangements. She was born in Greenville, Mississippi on September 10, 1918, to Irene Huntington Merkel Trigg and Thomas King Trigg. Her father died when she was two years old and her devoted aunts Sue Pelham Trigg and Mary Hurst Trigg shared raising her and her brother Thomas King Trigg, Jr. with their mother in Greenville, Mississippi. She attended Mississippi State College for Women and graduated from Mississippi State College. On September 9, 1939, she married Joseph Bedent Baird ofInverness and they lovingly shared their lives until he died in December 1996. With him she bore and raised their daughter Ann Brisbane and their sons Marion Duncan, Thomas Trigg, and Joseph Bedent, Jr. Successively she and her husband lived with their children in Inverness, Greenville, Mattson, and finally Inverness where they were communicants in the Episcopal Churches of All Saints, St. James, St. George (Clarksdale), andAll Saints, respectively. She lived her life gratefully and worshipfully-full of joy. She cherished andwas fiercely loyal and passionately devoted to her family, her friends and to the communities of which she was a member, showing all of us that the essence of joy is sharing and living constructively within our communities. She lives on in her childrenAnn, Duncan and Terry, Tommy and Mary Dana, and Joe and Helene and in her grandchildren Brisbane, Adam, Dan and Deb, Paige, Alexander and Tripp, Trigg, Mary Peyton and Steve, Lizzie and John, Cameron and Dan, and Joe and Holly and also in her great grandchildren Livia, Isabella, Tanner, Luke, Baird, Haiden, Shelle and Lee, Stephen, Jack, Cameron, Sam, Lila, and Abby. She also lives on in her beloved family of sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews and her friends to all of whom she remained devoted. We can rejoice and be grateful for her bountiful gifts of generously and joyfully loving us and showing us with integrity and exquisite grace what she revered in living. Her family is profoundly grateful to all the kind and generous spirited people who provided excellent care for her in the last years of her life. In lieu of flowers memorial gifts may be given to All Saints Episcopal Church, Inverness. Mortimer Funeral Home 662-887-1244