Mary Sue Baird 

JUNE 16, 1942 – JUNE 15, 2024

Sue was surrounded by family and love when she passed from life to life on June 15, 2024, in Southlake, TX.

Born in Seattle, WA, Sue was the fifth of eight children born to Mark Troy, Sr. and Mary Burns Troy. During her childhood, she lived in, among other places, Nashville, Dallas, Kansas City, and Cleveland. After graduating from high school, Sue entered Southern Methodist University, where she met Steve Baird, married, and later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. She was married for 43 years.

Sue’s two children were born in Dallas before the family relocated to Houston. During the 1970s, Sue worked as a personnel consultant, and for about a decade, she and a friend owned and operated their own business. After relocating to Plano, Sue worked for travel agency and for a printing company. Sue then supported her husband through multiple job moves, to Bedford, England, back to Dallas, TX, and then to San Jose, CA, before finally retiring to Richmond, VA. Sue treasured the friends she made along the way.

During her last 18 years, with the support of her children, Sue endured heartache and cancer, but she continually found ways to find joy and meaning in her life, through family and friends, gardening, traveling abroad, volunteering to help children, and as an active member of St. Matthias Episcopal Church.

Sue is survived by her children and their spouses, Lisa Gilbert (Phil Gilbert) and Tim Baird (Anne Dobson), her grandchildren, Caitlin Gilbert, Emily Kelly (Robert Kelly), Eleanor Baird, Audrey Baird, and William Baird, her great-grandchild, Philip Kelly, and her siblings Marcia Phelon, Tim Troy, and Kevin Troy. She joins her beloved siblings Mark, Ted, David, and Eileen.

A celebration of Sue’s life will be held on July 20, 2024, at 11 am, at St. Matthias Episcopal Church, 11300 W Huguenot Rd, Midlothian, VA 23113. Those attending the memorial service are encouraged to wear bright colors. Sue loved flowers but would welcome, in lieu of flowers, donations to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer, to the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, or to the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden.

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