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Hurt, Theodore

Theodore Hurt

Services: 1 p.m. (CDT) Tuesday at Dallas/Fort Worth National Cemetery in Dallas.

Mr. Theodore “Chief Rotten Eagle” Hurt, of Malakoff, Texas, a retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, died Saturday, June 21, 2003.

He was born on Aug. 24, 1932, in Bluefield, W. Va., to Robert Griffith and Pansy Hurt.

He served in the U.S. Air Force for 22 years, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was assigned to Cannon Air Force Base, Teaque, Korea, Southeast Asia, Bitburg, Germany, Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. and many other bases.

Arrangements are by Williams Funeral Directors of Garland, Texas.