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Theodore Redman Hume, Jr. "Ted" passed away peacefully on the morning of January 19, 2025, following a 10-year brave battle with lymphoma.
Ted was born on October 3, 1938, to Theodore Redman Hume and Floy Friend Hume in San Angelo, Texas. He grew up in San Angelo and graduated from Central High School in 1956. He followed in his parents' footsteps and attended Southern Methodist University where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Structural Engineering and began his career with Trinity Industries and subsequently with General Portland Cement Company. In 1959, he married Patsy Barber, and together they lived in Dallas and raised two children, Lynne and Teddo. While in Dallas, Ted enjoyed being involved in many community projects including the Dallas Society for Crippled Children, the Dallas Jaycees, and the President's Task Force for the State Fair of Texas.
In 1977 the family made a big move to Ted's hometown of San Angelo to be closer to his mother, and where he pursued his dream of a career in homebuilding. Over the next 40 years, he built over 100 homes in the San Angelo area. He and Pattie divorced in 1997, and he subsequently married Rose Ingala. After Ted and Rose separated, she left him with Weeji, the only cat he ever owned and cared for.
Throughout his life, Ted enjoyed an impressive variety of activities and hobbies. He was an avid sportsman and spent as much time as possible playing golf, tennis and hunting and fishing. He treasured time spent at Cedar Bluff Ranch in Ozona on hunting trips with friends and family - most especially the multi-generational Thanksgiving week hunt with long-term friends. Although he was an avid bass fisherman, he most enjoyed saltwater fishing in Port Mansfield. His love for Port Mansfield began in his childhood through many trips with his father Redman. As an adult, annual summer trips with Teddo and close friends Larry Petty and his family, RD Barron and his sons were often looked forward to. Ted made his last trip to the port in August of 2022 and caught a personal best Speckled Trout while wading the west shoreline. Teddo's friends were always amazed at Ted's ability to out fish them.
Ted was a lifelong learner and became quite knowledgeable about astronomy, wines, and coin collecting. In his later years, he was an active collector and seller of slide rules and became a renowned expert. He continued community involvement in San Angelo in many ways through his Astronomy Club and star parties, his wine tasting group, by helping plan and organize many high school reunions, and even tutoring neighborhood children in many math subjects.
Ted had many loves in his life - his beautiful family home, his dear friend and companion Lynn Furlow, his family and his God. He loved the State Fair of Texas, corny dogs, Key Lime Pie, and Christmas, but had a hatred of incompetence, almost every vegetable and a very contentious relationship with his "*@&$*" phone. He will be missed for all these things and many more.
He leaves behind to treasure his memory his daughter, Lynne Hume Borkowski (Richard); son, Theodore Redman Hume III (Jessica); and grandchildren, Katie Borkowski, Courtney Hume, Caroline Hume and Theodore Redman Hume IV.
The family is thankful that he received wonderful support from Gentiva Hospice and Home Instead caregivers Marsha and Geordas, his friend Joe Lynch and his medical team. The family is also extremely thankful that he finally knows what really happened on Oak Island.
Memorial graveside services will be on Friday, June 6, 2025, at 1:00 pm in Ozona, Texas at Cedar Hill Cemetery, 200 S Hwy 163, Ozona, Texas.