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A commemorative service will be held Friday in Seattle for N. Patrick Laird and Robert L. Charnell, two oceanographers missing at sea off the coast of Hawaii since Dec. 9.

Mr. Laird is a graduate of La Grande High School, the son of W. C. and Reba Laird of La Grande. His wife is the former Nancy Hodge of La Grande. The couple has one daughter, Christy.

Other survivors include a grandmother, Verda Gray of La Grande, and a sister, Margaret Jo Schider of Mountlake Terrace, Wash.

The service is 3 p.m. Friday at University Congregational Church, 4515 16th Ave. NE, Seattle. A reception will follow. The family requests contributions in his memory be given the American Diabetes Association, 3609 SW Corbett Ave., Portland 97201.

Warren C. "Jiggs" Laird, 77, La Grande, died Thursday, Nov. 7, 1991, at his home.

A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Daniels Valley Funeral Chapel under the direction of La Grande Masonic Lodge No. 41.

Mr. Laird was born on Dec. 22, 1913, in Fairfield, Idaho, to Lewis and Luella (Hartman) Laird. His family moved to Cove from Fairfield in 1917. IN 1933 he graduated from Cove High School. He married Reba Gray on Sept. 13, 1933, in Walla Walla. He was the distributor for the Phillips 66 Petroleum Company. Later his business became the Laird Oil Company. He retired in 1976.

He was a member of the La Grande Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite, Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Union County Shrine Club, Royal Arch Masons, Union Council no. 5, the La Grande Elks Lodge, and the La Grande Country Club. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, golf and gardening.

Survivors include this wife Reba in La Grande; daughter Margaret Laird of Mill Creek, Wash.; four grandchildren, five great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends. His son, Norman Patrick Laird, died in 1978.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Madeline Hedden Golf Scholarship or a favorite charity in care of Daniels Valley Funeral Chapel.