Esther Bailey Hedges
1916 - 2007 (91 years)-
Name Esther Bailey Hedges Birth 6 Jan 1916 Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Female Death 31 Mar 2007 Whitman County, Washington [2, 3] Burial Pullman City Cemetery, Whitman County, Washington [2, 3] - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62776035/esther-anderson
Block 5 AOUW, lot 28, grave 48
Person ID I1945 Hedges Last Modified 25 Apr 2023
Father Herbert Arlington Hedges, Sr, b. 2 Dec 1891, Middleport, Ohio d. 23 Jun 1980, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri (Age 88 years) Mother Lillian Lucille Bailey, b. 14 Apr 1893, Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas d. 15 Jan 1980, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri (Age 86 years) Marriage 22 Dec 1914 Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma [1] Divorce Bef 1942 [1] Family ID F544 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family James Ellwood Anderson, b. 20 Nov 1914, Duluth, Minnesota d. 30 Dec 1989, Pullman, Whitman County, Washington (Age 75 years) Marriage 15 Mar 1937 Northwood, Worth County, Iowa [3, 4] Family ID F947 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 17 Nov 2020
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Birth - 6 Jan 1916 - Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma 
Marriage - 15 Mar 1937 - Northwood, Worth County, Iowa 
Death - 31 Mar 2007 - Whitman County, Washington 
Burial - - Pullman City Cemetery, Whitman County, Washington = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Esther Anderson-Spencer was born Esther Bailey Hedges, Jan. 6, 1916, at Muskogee, Okla., to Herbert and Lillian Bailey Hedges. She grew up in Kansas City, Mo., spending the summers at Lake Bemidji in Minnesota. She married James Ellwood Anderson of Two Harbors, Minn., in 1937; he died in 1989. They lived in Kansas City, Columbia, Mo., St. Paul and Duluth, Minn., and Farragut, Idaho, before coming to Pullman in 1949. She received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Minnesota and wrote a monthly column for the famous Ski-U-Mah, the college humor magazine. In later years, she returned to college and received an M.A. degree in English Literature from WSU in 1968, where she was a teaching assistant for three years. Previous to that, during the '50s, she held various positions, including reporter and feature writer for the Pullman Herald, and technical writer for the Institute of Technology. She retired in 1979 as a supervisor at Holland Library. After retirement, she studied French by enrolling in classes at WSU and attending the Sorbonne in Paris during the summer of 1986. She made three other trips to France including an Elderhostel "homestay" at Besancon, birthplace of Victor Hugo, in 1990, a tour of Provence in southern France in 1994, and during the summers of 1991 and 1992 she studied French in Quebec at Laval University, under the auspices of Elderhostel. Her other late-in-life interests were her Macintosh computer, contract bridge, Scrabble and crossword puzzles. Reading always was a favorite hobby. She married Roger Spencer in 1996. They traveled to an Elderhostel in New Orleans and to two Elderhostels in Arizona, which included the National Arab Horse Show. They also attended two summer sessions at Senior Ventures in Ashland, Ore., and made trips to the British Isles and Costa Rica. A member of St. James Episcopal Church, she had served as secretary of the Vestry, Sunday School teacher and choir member for many years and as a high school counselor at Camp Cross, Episcopal Church camp, for two years. She also served as a Den Mother for Cub Scouts, and for four years was leader of a girl's 4-H group, whose members won many blue ribbons at county and state fairs. She belonged to the Pullman Senior Center, the Monday Book Club (once the Tuesday Book Club), a group of long standing, which at one time had Mary Avery and Marguerite Wilmer as members; the Whitman Genealogical Society, of which she was a charter member, and served as treasurer for three years, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was an alumna of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
She is survived by her husband, Roger Spencer, of Pullman and three children Penny Anderson of Stockton, Calif., Jan Anderson of Seattle, and Chris Anderson of Suwanee, Ga.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Two sisters and a brother preceded her in death. Also surviving are stepsons Paul and David Spencer of Pullman, Lee Spencer, Anchorage, Alaska, and Sam Spencer of Denver; stepdaughters, Bonnie Spencer of The Netherlands, Nara Rosen of Beaverton, Ore., Dena Spencer-Curtis of Pullman; and nine step-grandchildren. A memorial service will take place at St. James Episcopal Church, Pullman, on Saturday, April 14, 2007, at 2 p.m. Kimball Funeral Home of Pullman is caring for the family
(Obituary from Moscow Pullman Daily News Online)
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- Esther Anderson-Spencer was born Esther Bailey Hedges, Jan. 6, 1916, at Muskogee, Okla., to Herbert and Lillian Bailey Hedges. She grew up in Kansas City, Mo., spending the summers at Lake Bemidji in Minnesota. She married James Ellwood Anderson of Two Harbors, Minn., in 1937; he died in 1989. They lived in Kansas City, Columbia, Mo., St. Paul and Duluth, Minn., and Farragut, Idaho, before coming to Pullman in 1949. She received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Minnesota and wrote a monthly column for the famous Ski-U-Mah, the college humor magazine. In later years, she returned to college and received an M.A. degree in English Literature from WSU in 1968, where she was a teaching assistant for three years. Previous to that, during the '50s, she held various positions, including reporter and feature writer for the Pullman Herald, and technical writer for the Institute of Technology. She retired in 1979 as a supervisor at Holland Library. After retirement, she studied French by enrolling in classes at WSU and attending the Sorbonne in Paris during the summer of 1986. She made three other trips to France including an Elderhostel "homestay" at Besancon, birthplace of Victor Hugo, in 1990, a tour of Provence in southern France in 1994, and during the summers of 1991 and 1992 she studied French in Quebec at Laval University, under the auspices of Elderhostel. Her other late-in-life interests were her Macintosh computer, contract bridge, Scrabble and crossword puzzles. Reading always was a favorite hobby. She married Roger Spencer in 1996. They traveled to an Elderhostel in New Orleans and to two Elderhostels in Arizona, which included the National Arab Horse Show. They also attended two summer sessions at Senior Ventures in Ashland, Ore., and made trips to the British Isles and Costa Rica. A member of St. James Episcopal Church, she had served as secretary of the Vestry, Sunday School teacher and choir member for many years and as a high school counselor at Camp Cross, Episcopal Church camp, for two years. She also served as a Den Mother for Cub Scouts, and for four years was leader of a girl's 4-H group, whose members won many blue ribbons at county and state fairs. She belonged to the Pullman Senior Center, the Monday Book Club (once the Tuesday Book Club), a group of long standing, which at one time had Mary Avery and Marguerite Wilmer as members; the Whitman Genealogical Society, of which she was a charter member, and served as treasurer for three years, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was an alumna of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
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