Elizabeth Laird The Hug Lady Passes Away (Ft Hood, Texas)

KCEN TV Waco, TX ^ | Dec 24, 2015 5:13 PM CST | Staff

[Ready4Freddy]

COPPERAS COVE – Elizabeth Laird ‘The Hug Lady’ passed away Thursday at Metroplex Hospital.

Laird made it her mission to hug every single soldier as they boarded planes to deploy and waited with a hug when they returned to welcome them home.

She was 83 years-old.

Services are pending with Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home of Copperas Cove.

[Kathy in Alaska]

RIP Elizabeth Laird, The Hug Lady.
Thanks for all you did for "your" troops.

How Great Thou Art

[jmacusa]

Beautiful Kathy. Leave it to you. Merry Christmas dear.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[TXBlair]

Mrs. Laird was best known as the Hug Lady, of course, but she and her late husband, Ray, were also very active with the Salvation Army, locally. That’s how I met her...the Kettle Campaign a bunch of Christmases ago. They were just really neat people.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, jmacusa.

Merry Christmas!

[hoagy62]

My nephew deployed from Ft. Hood twice...once to Iraq, and once to Afghanistan. He came back both times and probably got hugged by this wonderful lady coming and going.

Rest In Peace, and my our Lord Jesus give YOU a hug when you see Him.

[trebb]

God Bless her - not as colorful as Humpty Dumpty in Naples, Italy, but a wonderful woman ....

[bgill]

Prayers and hugs.

[chargers fan]

She was there for me as well.