Thayne Alden Hedges
1921 - 1986 (64 years)-
Name Thayne Alden Hedges Born 25 Mar 1921 Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Died 21 Jan 1986 Madera County, California [1, 4] Person ID I1669 Hedges Last Modified 14 Apr 2023
Father Arthur Alden Hedges, b. 3 Jul 1887, Waterloo, Fayette County, Indiana , d. 16 Jan 1965, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas (Age 77 years) Mother Irma "Jean" Hathaway, b. 18 Jan 1895, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas , d. 25 Oct 1971, Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas (Age 76 years) Married 14 May 1913 Wellington, Kansas [5] Family ID F543 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Ruth Evelyn Carrol, b. 13 Aug 1926, Oklahoma , d. 12 Oct 2007, Fresno, Fresno County, California (Age 81 years) Married 19 Aug 1948 Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas Children 1. Michael Alden Hedges, b. 31 Dec 1953, Sacramento County, California , d. 2 Dec 1997, Booneville, Mendocino County, California (Age 43 years)Last Modified 13 Apr 2023 Family ID F851 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 25 Mar 1921 - Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma 
Married - 19 Aug 1948 - Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas 
Died - 21 Jan 1986 - Madera County, California = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Thayne A. Hedges, professor of speech at Fresno State
Madera – Memorial services for Dr. Thayne A. Hedges, 64, a professor at Fresno State University, will be at 4 p.m. today at United Christian Church in Fresno. Cremation arrangements will be under the direction of the Madera Funeral Home.
Mr. Hedges died Tuesday.
He was born in Oklahoma and had lived in Madera for five years.
He was a professor of communicative disorders at FSU for five years.
Mr. Hedges also taught at California State University Chico for two years. He was a member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and the California Speech-Language and Hearing Association. He taught at Phillips University in Enid, Okla., and was director of the Community Speech and Hearing Center in Enid.
In November 1985, the Community Speech and Hearing Center in Enid was named after him.
Surviving are his wife, Ruth; three sons, Brendan of Madera, Craig of Fresno and Michael of Mendocino; a daughter, Carol Hedges of Visalia; a sister, Thadine Maytum of Kansas; and a grandson.
The family requests that any remembrance be sent to the Department of Communicative Disorder at FSU for student scholarships.
The Fresno Bee, Fresno, California. Thursday, 23 January 1986.
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- Thayne A. Hedges, professor of speech at Fresno State
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