Nominated by: Michael Christopher, grandson 
My grandmother, Helen Baird, just turned 97 years young in August of this year. To make a long, complicated story short, she was my mother’s aunt, until circumstance and courage changed things. My mom was born into a family that had too many children and too little money. Instead of allowing the kids to be adopted out to strangers and possibly split up, some of the aunts decided to legally adopt the children themselves. In a nutshell, that’s how my mom’s aunt became her mother and my grandmother.
My grandmother is an AMAZING woman with an unlimited number of stories to tell. She still has all of her faculties, walks without aid, mows her own lawn and only recently quit driving and gave up her driver’s license. She is a cancer survivor after having part of a lung removed decades ago. She is a former realtor, former bar owner and wife to a man that fought in WWII. She has witnessed and lived first hand many historical events that the rest of us have only read about. Helen Baird is OUR Living Legend and I believe you’d be doing yourself a great service by making this amazing, remarkable woman…yours.
