Obituary of Carrie Hedge, Rusk Co, Texas

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        Date: 21 Feb 2007
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Warren, Hedge, Blackwood, Carruthers, Skinner

HEDGE, Carrie Mae (Carruthers) died on March 3, 1992, in .

Services for Mrs. Carrie Mae Hedge, 70, of 501 Woodlawn, a well known and
long-time school teacher and administrator here, will be held in the
First United Methodist Church with Rev. Woods, rector of St. Matthews
Episcopal church officiating. Interment will be in Lakewood Memorial Park
Cemetery. Mrs. Hedge, a member of St. Matthews Episcopal Church and
retired principal of Central Elementary School, died in Medical City
Hospital in Dallas at 8am friday following a brief illness. She had
resided in Henderson 46 years. She spent 35 years in school teaching and
administration and retired as principal of Central Elementary on June 1,
1974. She served as principal for 25 years. Mrs. Hedge was one of the
organizers of St. Matthews Episcopal Church in Henderson and was a past
president of both the American Cancer Society and the local district of
the Texas State Teachers Assn. She was also a  past president of the
Henderson Women's club and was a  member of the American Society of
University Women. Survivors are her husband, W. Prentiss Hedge of
Henderson; two daughters, Mrs. Pat Skinner of Austin and Mrs. John
Blackwood of Plano; two brothers, Dr. Spencer Carruthers of Greenville
and William Carruthers of Wichita Falls, and three granddaughters,
Jennifer Elizabeth Blackwood of Plano and Elizabeth Ann and Rebecca
Sharon Skinner, both of Austin. Pallbearers will be Lewis Land, Ray Hall,
Landon Alford, Charles Richardson, Michael Kangerga and Richard Ogden.