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Second wife of John Richard "Captain Dick" Hedrick of Lanett, AL.
Dick & Mary Jim were a true love story. They loved each other devotedly until the days they both died. They absolutely adored each other. He called her "Jimmie."
She was his private secretary with West Point Manufacturing. She was 26 years younger. They were in love but remained friends, as he would not divorce Fannie.
He was not that staunch a Christian, while his wife Fannie was.
After Fannie's death they married and traveled extensively.
Mary Jim never had any children, but loved her step-granddaughter and her nieces and nephews very much.
Mary Jim was a delightful person, loved by many. She was famous locally for her tea parties that were held in the porte cochere of the Hedrick house.
Before Dick died he sold his house in Lanett and moved with her to Valdosta, GA, where her sister lived. She remained there until a few years before her death, when she moved to Brooksville, FL to be close to a nephew.
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The Valley Times-News, date about 02/15/2002, page unknown.
Mrs. Hedrick.
Brooksville, Fla. - Mrs. Mary Jim Hunnicutt Hedrick, 89, of Brooksville died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2002 in Brooksville.
Funeral services were held Monday, Feb. 11 in Brooksville.
Mrs. Hedrick is survived by two sisters, Ellen Hammett of Valdosta, Ga., and Pam Sims of Chattanooga, Tenn.; and her step-daughter, Louise Hedrick Hill of Opelika, Ala.
Born Nov. 22, 1912 in Lanett, Mrs. Hedrick was a graduate of Lanett High School. She married J. R. Hedrick and resided in Lanett until 1978, when they moved to Valdosta.
The Hunnicutt family would like to contact any relatives or close friends living in the Valley.
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Corrections: They moved to Valdosta in 1976, not 1978. Dick wanted Mary Jim to be close to her sister after he died so in the spring of 1976 they moved to Valdosta where Ellen lived. Dick went into a nursing home there where he lived 4 months before he died in August.. Mary Jim lived there until 2000 when she moved to a nursing home in Brooksville close to her nephew.
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