DONALD LEE HEDGES
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Lee Henry Hedges & Lavinia C Carr
26 November 1907 in Buffalo, NY
01 March 1983 at 76 years old (prostate cancer spread into his bones) in Torrance, CA
Los Feliz Elementary, Hollywood HS
Cal Tech College
Mechanical Engineering
554 10 2977
Douglas Aircraft aerospace engineer, waterplane mechanic on Catalina Island for Wrigley Gum Co
Fishing & boating, design/build/flew aircraft, model ships & planes. After retiring he was handyman, building attic ladders & such for seniors.

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Olive Juliet (1912) & Bruce Lincoln (1914)


Iva Laura Birdsley, Leslie Greer, Betty Leimbach
Don Lee (1938) & Diana Lynn (1943)
5' 6.5" 160 lbs Hazel eyes
Heart attacks (4) & bone cancer
Torrance
1932 Ford Coupe, 1952 MG TD
Notes: At Douglas: redesigned a fuel booster pump to allow aircraft to fly at designated altitude, found & fixed a fault in the carburetor heat control on Air Force planes, found & fixed a fault with the Hamilton-Standard propellers hydraulic pump design.

51 years old
Douglas badge 1958

Grandpa Don

Diana & Dad, 1958
55 years old
Passport Aug 1962

58 years old
4 generations Dec 1965

3rd wedding 1977
71 years old
Passport April 1978
75 years old
Son & Father 1982