Hugh Alexander Baird, 85, of Guilford, Conn., died July 23 in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
He was a former editor of the then-Stratford (Conn.) News
He was a freelance writer and marketing specialist, and wrote several pieces for Yankee Magazine of Dublin, N.H., and True Magazine, an online publication.
Baird spent 33 years in the public relations department of SNET America, Inc., a long distance telephone company owned by Frontier Communications that serves Connecticut and elsewhere. He retired in 1987 as community relations manager.
His assignments included assisting with Connecticut Gov. Ella Grasso’s nursing home review. He was also a member of the Guilford Police Building site committee.
Baird leaves his wife, Patricia; a son, Mark; a daughter, Tammy; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; three brothers; a sister.
The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondent Nimra Aziz, an undergraduate student in the Northeastern University School of Journalism.