Peggy Jean Garrett Laird

Sorrells Funeral Home - Geneva

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Date: Apr 21 2014 10:26 AM

Mrs. Peggy Jean (Garrett) Laird, a retired school teacher of Lacy Lakeview, Texas, and formerly of Anniston, Alabama passed away Thursday, April 17, 2014 at a local care center. She was 71.

Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at Lake Shore Funeral Home Chapel in Waco, Texas with Rev. Roger Huff and Rev. Archie Hoffpauir officiating.  The family will receive friends at the Lake Shore Funeral Home Monday, April 21, from 6 until 8 p.m.  Burial will follow on Friday, April 25, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. in the Mt. Ida Congregational Methodist Church Cemetery in Holmes County with Sorrells Funeral Home and Crematory of Geneva directing.

In lieu of flowers, memorials should be made to your favorite charity.

Peggy was born February 8, 1943 in Anniston, Alabama to the late Bernard and Evie Garrett.  She graduated from Oxford High School in Oxford, AL; Westminster College and Jacksonville State University in Alabama with a B.S. in Secondary Education.  She received her Master of Arts Degree in American Studies from Baylor University.

Peggy married Glover Laird in 1965, and they have one son.  She loved teaching school for 33 years, the last 29 years at Connally High School teaching English, American and World History, as well as American Government and Economics.  She was a long time member of the Waco First Church of the Nazarene where her favorite thing was singing in the choir.

Survivors include her husband, Glover A. Laird of Lacy Lakeview; her son, Eric Douglas Laird of Bryan; two brothers: Thomas Edward Garrett and wife Pat of Montgomery, AL and Billy Joe Garrett and wife Beverly of Anniston, AL; she also leaves behind many nieces, nephews, and cousins which include five double first cousins.

 

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