Woody Baird, longtime AP Memphis newsman and Summerville native, dies at 77

Woodrow "Woody" Baird, a former longtime Associated Press journalist in Memphis, has died. He was 77. Baird was a dogged, straight-talking and skilled journalist who covered everything from Elvis Presley to panda bears for The Associated Press in the Memphis region for 27 years. His wife said Baird had suffered a stroke a week before he died April 11 in Memphis. Baird retired from his post in the city in 2009.

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