Obituary for Wynn Scott Laird Obituary for Wynn Scott Laird Shawnee Kansas – Wynn Scott Laird, 71, died on January 9, 2019. He was born on May 29, 1947 in Ransom, Kansas, the son of Winfield Scott Laird and Verlie Florence Munstedt. He married Sherry Lee Anderson on September 3, 1966 in Dighton, Kansas.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Sherry, and his parents, Winfield and Verlie Laird. Wynn spent his childhood in Dighton, Kansas and graduated from Dighton High School in 1965. As a young man, Scott was a typical small-town boy… playing any sport under the sun, helping with farm work and tinkering with anything that had a motor or electrical circuitry.
He attended Wichita State University, graduating in 1970 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Right out of college he accepted a position with American Risk Management in Niles, Ohio, which turned out to be a lifetime job! Scott and Sherry moved to Niles, Ohio in 1971, where their only son, Wade Scott Laird, was born on June 23, 1973.
They spent the next eight years in Northeast Ohio where he continued with his passion of sports and tinkering. Niles, Ohio is where Scott fell in love with the Cleveland Indians and the Cleveland Browns…. he loved those teams the rest of his life.
Whether it was coaching his son’s baseball team or building elaborate train sets in the basement of their Niles home, he was always involved, teaching and loving on those closest to him. Many Saturday afternoons were spent at the mall with Wade, giving him quarters to play the new thing…. .
video games! Scott accepted a new position with American Risk Management that moved the family to Prairie Village, Kansas in 1982. The early years in Kansas City were spent doing much of the same…coaching baseball, leading in Boy Scouts and working tirelessly at his job…so much so that he was a one-man office.
Scott joined the OP Lions Club and developed a passion for the civic services their Club provides. He developed lifetime friendships through that organization. Trips to Western Kansas were made as often as possible to see family and friends, for dove/pheasant hunting and for every Christmas break.
He was blessed with his first grandchild, Nadia Elise Laird, on September 10, 2000 and his second grandchild, Walker Sever-Laird, on March 1, 2004. After Scott retired in 2016, his love for the grandchildren and all his hobbies came to full bloom. His happiest times were spent with Nadia and Walker doing anything and everything together.
He was a devoted family man from start to finish always thinking of others before himself. A Funeral Service will be held at the First Christian Church in Dighton, Kansas on Monday, January 21, 2019 at 10:00am, with Rev. Aeril Smith officiating.
Burial will be in Healy Cemetery at Healy, Kansas. Memorials are suggested to Olathe Health Hospice House/Olathe Health Charitable Foundation in care of Boomhower Funeral Home. Friends my call from 6:00pm to 7:30pm Sunday evening at Boomhower Funeral Home in Dighton.
Condolences may be posted at www. garnandfuneralhomes.com.
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