Herbert Arlington Hedges, Sr
1891 - 1980 (88 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
1. Herbert Arlington Hedges, Sr was born on 2 Dec 1891 in Middleport, Ohio; died on 23 Jun 1980 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; was buried in Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas. Other Events:
- _MILT: World War I.
- Census: 1920, Quincy, Adams County, Illinois
- Census: 1930, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
- Census: 1940, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Notes:
Herbert A. Hedges
Herbert A. Hedges, 84, of 6025 State Line, Kansas City, died Monday, June 23, at Research Hospital. He was born in Middleport, Ohio. Mr. Hedges, a former resident of Chillicothe, known as "Mr. Life Insurance," had a long and colorful career. At an early age, he was a cabin boy on the Mississippi River on the White Collar Line. As a youth, he became a crewman for the Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua circuit, where he became intimately acquainted with celebrities of the day: William Jennings Bryan, Schumann Heinck, Champ Clark, Senator La Follette and the Ben Greet Shakespearean Players.
In March, 1918, he joined the United States Marine Corps and served on active duty in France, where he was commissioned as first lieutenant. After the war, he entered the life insurance business in Queen City, Mo. Four years later, he became general agent in Kansas City for the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa, with which he enjoyed a long and successful career.
On June 15, 1978, the Kansas City Association of Life Underwriters created a Man-of-the-Year Award and called it the Herb Hedges Award. Mr. Hedges had served as a leading general agent in Kansas City, was three times honored as a Master Agency Builder, president of the National Association of Life Underwriters (with offices in New York City). He was known in the industry as a life insurance salesman's salesman. His "Fiddlers, Peddlars and Salesman" speech made him a sought-after dinner speaker.
He was a member of the Country Club Christian Church and Mission Hills Country Club. He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline R. Hedges, of the home; a son, Skipper Hedges, Kansas City, and four daughters, Cee Cee Zabor, Blue Springs; Mrs. Edwin M. Bramson, Prairie Village; Mrs. Rufus Gabel, Kansas City, and Mrs. James E. Anderson, Pullman, Wash. He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mildred Heency, South Haven, Kan., and Mrs. Grace Tallman, Keokuk, Ia.
Services will be held at 12, Friday at the Country Club Christian Church, 61st and Ward Parkway, Kansas City. Burial will be at the National cemetery, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., at 2:30 p.m.
The family requests no flowers. Contributions may be made to Olivette Baptist Church Missionary Fund, 4901 Mission Rd., Westwood, Kansas 66205.
The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune Obituary, June 25, 1980, p. 9.
From The Mavity Family, compiled by Norman Bloss Mavity. Published by Edwards Brother, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI, [1954].
page 118
E-292. Herbert Arlington Hedges was born December 2, 1891, at Middleport, Ohio. He was married December 22, 1914, at Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Lillian Lucille Bailey, who was born April 14, 1893 at Harrison, Arkansas, the daughter of attorney DeRoos Bailey and Lillie (McDowell) Bailey. Herbert Arlington Hedges attended Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri, and Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He belongs to the Optimist Club, Christian Church, and Missouri Life Underwriters. He is National Trustee of "National Life Underwriters."
_MILT:
US Marine Corps. 1st Lieutenant.
Buried:
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Section M, site 495Herbert married Lillian Lucille Bailey on 22 Dec 1914 in Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, and was divorced before 1942. Lillian (daughter of DeRoos Bailey and Lillie McDowell) was born on 14 Apr 1893 in Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas; died on 15 Jan 1980 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Esther Bailey Hedges
was born on 6 Jan 1916 in Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma; died on 31 Mar 2007 in Whitman County, Washington; was buried in Pullman City Cemetery, Whitman County, Washington. - 3. Betty Jean Hedges was born on 25 Dec 1917 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; died in Dec 1986 in Shawnee Mission, Johnson County, Kansas; was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
- 4. Sidney McDowell Hedges was born on 23 Nov 1921 in Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri; died on 27 Apr 1996 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas; was buried in Valley View Memorial Park, Pottawatomie County, Kansas.
- 5. Herbert Arlington Hedges was born on 3 Nov 1925 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; died on 9 Aug 1978 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; was buried in Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas.
Herbert married Jacqueline Royster on 8 May 1942 in Benton County, Arkansas. Jacqueline was born on 2 Dec 1910 in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri; died on 13 Sep 1997 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; was buried in Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 6. Skipper Royster Hedges was born on 22 May 1939 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; died on 21 Jun 2014 in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri; was buried in non-cemetery burial.
- 7. Victoria Jacquelynn Hedges was born on 2 Sep 1945 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; died on 18 May 2004 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida; was buried in Fred Hunter's Hollywood Memorial Gardens West, Hollywood, Broward County, Florida.
Generation: 2
2. Esther Bailey Hedges (1.Herbert1) was born on 6 Jan 1916 in Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma; died on 31 Mar 2007 in Whitman County, Washington; was buried in Pullman City Cemetery, Whitman County, Washington. 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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Block 5 AOUW, lot 28, grave 48Esther married James Ellwood Anderson on 15 Mar 1937 in Northwood, Worth County, Iowa. James was born on 20 Nov 1914 in Duluth, Minnesota; died on 30 Dec 1989 in Pullman, Whitman County, Washington; was buried in Pullman City Cemetery, Whitman County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Betty Jean Hedges (1.Herbert1) was born on 25 Dec 1917 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; died in Dec 1986 in Shawnee Mission, Johnson County, Kansas; was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. Notes:
Betty J. Bramson
Betty J. Bramson, Prairie Village, a writer, died Saturday at Indian Meadows Nursing Home.
She was a writer for The Squire magazine and Rose Publication, and also taught creative writing at the Jewish Community Center. Mrs. Bramson was a member of Village Presbyterian Church. She attended Kansas State University, Manhattan, and the University of Minnesota. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi, a charter member of Cub Scout Pack 92, a den mother chairman, and was on the boards of the Tomahawk Players and the Community Children’s Theater. She was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and had lived in this area most of her life.
She leaves her husband, Edwin M. Bramson of the home; a son, Dr. Robert Bramson, Tampa, Fla.; two sisters, Esther Anderson, Pullman, Wash., and Sidney Gabel, Kansas City; and three grandchildren. Memorial services will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday at the church; private burial before the service at Mount Moriah Cemetery. Friends may call following the services.
The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri. Sunday, 7 December 1986, page 13B.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/252746377/betty-jean-bramsonBetty married Robert Thomas Kenney on 5 Apr 1940 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. Robert was born on 13 Mar 1917 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; died on 28 Mar 2011. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Family/Spouse: Edwin Myron Bramson. Edwin was born on 20 Feb 1922 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; died on 6 Oct 2001 in Prairie Village, Johnson County, Kansas; was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
4. Sidney McDowell Hedges (1.Herbert1) was born on 23 Nov 1921 in Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri; died on 27 Apr 1996 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas; was buried in Valley View Memorial Park, Pottawatomie County, Kansas. Notes:
Sidney Hedges Gabel
Sidney Hedges Gabel, 74, 2317 Butternut Lane, died Saturday, April 27, at the Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka.
She was born Nov. 23, 1921, at Chillicothe, Mo. She grew up in Kansas City, Mo., where she attended the local public schools and was a graduate of Southwest High School. She had also attended the University of Missouri and later the Conservatory of Music at Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Gael was a veteran of World War II, serving in the WACS. She served as a payroll clerk for almost two years at Camp Hood, Texas, and sang with the Special Services Dance Band for the Special Services Unit.
The married Rufus R. Gabel in 1957 in Kansas City, Mo. He preceded her in death in January.
Mrs. Bagel spent most of her life in the Kansas City area. She worked as a new business clerk for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for many years. She retired in 1990. She had been a resident of Manhattan since October 1995.
She was a former member of the Santa Fe Hill Baptist Church, Kansas City, where she had served as a pianist, substitute organist, Sunday school director, nursery coordinator, women’s missionary union director and a member of various committees. Since moving to Manhattan, she had become a member of the College Heights Baptist Church.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Gabel was preceded in death by a son, Paul Douglas Gabel, in 1995.
Survivors include two daughters, Barbara Ann McGinness, Clinton, Mo., and Jan Slezinger, Johnston, Manhattan; two sons, Gregory Alan Slezinger, Kansas City, Mo., and John L. Slezinger III, Beaverton, Ore.; one sister, Esther Anderson, Pullman, Wash.; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kansas. Monday, 29 April 1996.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111819740/sidney-gabelSidney married Rufus Reber Gabel on 17 Aug 1957 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. Rufus was born on 1 Nov 1910 in Vessie, Phelps County, Missouri; died on 2 Jan 1996 in Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas; was buried in Valley View Memorial Park, Pottawatomie County, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Herbert Arlington Hedges (1.Herbert1) was born on 3 Nov 1925 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; died on 9 Aug 1978 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; was buried in Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas. Other Events:
- _MILT: World War II. Korea. Vietnam.
Notes:
Herbert A. Hedges Jr.
Herbert A. “Duke” Hedges Jr., 52, of 6108 W. 86th, Overland Park, manager here for the Equitable of Iowa Life Insurance Co., died Wednesday at Research Medical Center.
Mr. Hedges had worked for Equitable three years and earlier had been vice president and agency director of the American Independent Life Insurance Co. and manager here for the American General Life Insurance. He was a member of the Life Underwriters Association of Kansas City, the American Society of Certified Life Underwriters, and the General Agents and Managers Association.
He was president of the Leawood Lions Club in 1975. Mr. Hedges was graduated from the Missouri Military Academy, Mexico, Mo., and had served in the Marine Corp 21 years before retiring in 1964 as a first sergeant. He was born in Kansas City and had lived in this area most of his life.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Lea Hedges of the home; two sons, John R. Cobb II, Richmond, Va. and James R. Cobb, Jackson, S.C.; three daughters, Mrs. Laura Hedges Cotter, 1180 Cherry; Mrs. Gloria Rife, San Antonio, Texas, and Mrs. Linda Otto, Lemoore, Calif.; his parents, Herbert A. Hedges Sr., 6025 state Line, and Mrs. Lillian Bailey Hedges, 205 E. 77th; three sisters, Mrs. Bette Bramson, 5212 W. 72rd, Prairie Village; Mrs. Sidney Gabel, 205 E. 77th, and Mrs. Esther Anderson, Pullman, Wash.; a step-brother, Skipper Hedges, Kansas City; a stepsister, Mrs. Cee Cee Zabor, Blue Springs; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Newcomer Overland Park Chapel; burial at 12:30 p.m. in the National Cemetery, Fort Leavenworth. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the chapel.
The Kansas City Times, Kansas City, Missouri. Friday, 11 August 1978.
_MILT:
US Marine Corps. 1st Sergeant.
Buried:
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Section O, site 12756. 
Skipper Royster Hedges (1.Herbert1) was born on 22 May 1939 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; died on 21 Jun 2014 in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri; was buried in non-cemetery burial. Notes:
Skipper Royster Hedges was born on May 22, 1939, in Kansas City, MO, to Herbert Arlington Hedges, Sr. and Ellen Jacqueline "Jacky" (Royster) Hedges.
Skipper attended Pembroke Country Day School in Kansas City, MO, as well as Culver Military Academy in Culver, In. He graduated in May 1957 from Pembroke and according to his senior yearbook he was a member of the Dramatics Club, Science Club, and the "Raider" yearbook staff. After high school, Skipper attended Drury College in Springfield, MO; the Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, MO; and the University of Missouri Kansas City, but he did not complete a degree.
For a short period of time Skipper sold insurance for the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa. In 1962, Skipper left the insurance industry to pursue a career in law enforcement when he was hired as a Deputy by the Jackson County Sherriff's Patrol (JCSP). On May 2, 1963, Skipper married Sharon Elaine Miller at the Christian Union Church in Richmond, MO. The couple had one daughter, named Kimberly Hedges-Ensminger, and divorced shortly after her birth. On February 8, 1964, Skipper married Barbara Ann DeCavele in Kansas City, MO One daughter was born to this union named Sabrina Monee "Bri" Hedges-Brown.
In 1965, Skipper left the JCSP after he was elected as the City Marshall of Lake Lotawana, MO in a three-way race against Jean Swisher and Gene Silvey. One year later he was appointed to the Metropolitan Major Case Squad, which was formed to investigate major, multi-jurisdictional crimes in the Kansas City area. Skipper was reelected as City Marshall in 1969. During his time with the Lake Lotawana Police Dept., Skipper gained recognition for revising the city's road traffic code, updating the department's policies and procedures, assisting the Blue Springs Police Dept. in the restructuring of their record system, and establishing a police department for Weatherby Lake, MO. On December 2, 1970, Skipper was elected President of the Metropolitan Chiefs and Sheriffs Association.
In 1972, Skipper ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the Democratic nominee for Sherriff of the Jackson County Sherriff's Dept. against William Carnes. After this primary loss, Skipper also lost his position as Lake Lotawna's City Marshall in the general election to Homer E. Frisby by just 60 votes. Following these electoral disappointments, Skipper worked for the Blue Springs Police Dept., where he wrote a new standard operational procedure manual, and later as an Investigator for the Missouri Social Services Division. In 1975, Skipper divorced Barbara and moved from Lake Lotawana to Blue Springs, MO. In 1977, Skipper made another unsuccessful bid to become the Democratic nominee for Jackson County Sherriff. On May 31, 1978, Skipper married Tanya Kay "Tamie" (Yarrington) Accurso. Skipper and Tamie had two daughters: Britton Royster Hedges and Hilary Skipper Hedges. During the 1980s, Skipper worked in various capacities for the Camden County Sheriff's Dept., St. Clair County Sheriff's Office, Osage Beach Police Dept., and the Windsor Police Dept., while also operating a consulting business called Sab-Brit LLC.
On July 14, 1990, Skipper was appointed as Interim Chief of Police of the Grain Valley Police Dept. (GVPD) by a unanimous vote of the city's Board of Alderman. In addition to his duties as Chief, Skipper was tasked with overseeing the search for a fulltime replacement for former Chief Earl Brackman, developing a new budget, addressing citizen's complaints with the police department, and writing a new procedure manual. On September 15, 1990, the Board voted to make Skipper the permanent, full-time Chief of Police. Over the next seven years, Skipper was credited with upgrading the department's equipment, instituting a zero-tolerance policy for drug convictions, developing a neighborhood watch program, initiating the first D.A.R.E. program in the city, and generally making the GVPD a more professional organization. On December 13, 1997, he left the department to pursue other opportunities. Skipper spent his retirement pursuing private business ventures and passed away at the Lake of the Ozarks on June 21, 2014.
* Skipper's birth name was Edgeworth Thomas "Edge" Brady, but he legally changed it to Skipper Royster Hedges as a teenager.
Kansas City Star Obituary, June 29, 2014, p. 16:
Skipper "SRH" Royster Hedges sailed away peacefully at the Lake of the Ozarks June 21, 2014. He was born May 22, 1939. He dedicated his life to law enforcement, serving communities including Lake Lotawana, Grain Valley and St. Clair County. He was a lifetime member of the Metropolitan Major Case Squad & the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He is survived by his wife, Tamie Hedges, his daughters, Kimberly Hedges-Ensminger, Sabrina Hedges-Brown, Britton Hedges and Hilary Hedges, step-daughter Gina Accurso-Casey and many grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Cliff Drive Corridor Management Committee.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133771382/skipper-royster-hedges7. Victoria Jacquelynn Hedges (1.Herbert1) was born on 2 Sep 1945 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; died on 18 May 2004 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida; was buried in Fred Hunter's Hollywood Memorial Gardens West, Hollywood, Broward County, Florida. Notes:
Jacquelynn "Cee Cee" Hedges Pigeon, died May 18, 2004, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Graduated Sunset Hill School, attended KU. Member Alpha Chi Omega. Daughter of Jacqueline Royster and Herbert A. Hedges, granddaughter of Bereniece Scarritt Royster and great-great-granddaughter of Nathan Scarritt, one of the founding fathers of Kansas City. Preceded by mother, Jacqueline, father, Herbert A. Hedges. Leaves daughter, Wendy Graves, Ft. Lauderdale; grandchildren, Alex and Brianna; daughter, Jennifer Reed, St. Augustine; grandchildren, Austin and Brooke; brother, Skipper Hedges, Grain Valley, MO; nieces, Kimberly Scarritt Ensminger, Moran, KS, Sabrina Naylor, Raytown, MO, Britton and Hilary Hedges, Grain Valley, MO; and half-sister, Esty Spencer, Pullman, WA. Entombed in Hollywood Memorial Gardens, Hollywood, FL, May 22, 2004.
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