Edith Welch Laird

Published 12:01 am Friday, July 27, 2018

Feb. 23, 1926 – July 25, 2018

NATCHEZ —Services for Edith Welch Laird, 92, of Natchez, who died Wednesday, July 25, 2018, will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Laird Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Bill Barksdale officiating.
Burial will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Laird was born Feb. 23, 1926, in Lincoln County, the daughter of G.C. Welch Sr. and Verda Welch.
She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Hendrick J. Laird Sr.; one brother, G.C. Welch Jr.; and one sister, Dot Welch Johnson.
Survivors include three children, Hendrick Jeff Laird Jr. and wife, Lynda, of Wilmington, N.C., Glynn Laird and wife, Mary Lou, of Natchez, and Margie Laird Credle and husband, Nick Rushing; five grandchildren, Hendrick Jeff Laird III, Allen Laird and wife, Melinda, Dawn Credle Quaranta and husband, Mike, Elizabeth Laird Bohannon and husband, Blake, and Benjie Credle and wife, Jessi; seven great-grandchildren, Addison Laird, Ava Credle, Anabella Laird, Paxton Johns, Christian Quaranta, Henry Bohannon and Jackson Quaranta; one brother, Thomas Welch; special friends, Bob and Sue Armstrong; and her special friends and family at Magnolia Village
Pallbearers will be Hendrick Jeff Laird III, Allen Laird, Benjie Credle, Mike Quaranta , Blake Bohannon and Kent Welch
Honorary pallbearers will be Thomas Welch and Cliff McCarstle.
The family extends a special thank you to the staff at Magnolia Village and Deaconess Hospice.
Memorials may be sent to Jefferson Street United Methodist Church Building Fund or a charity of choice.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at lairdfh.com.