Reedes Hurt

Reedes Hurt, 72, passed away from advanced Primary Progressive Aphasia, a rare type of frontotemporal dementia, on July 18, 2010.




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He was born on August 11, 1937 in the Eastern Coal Field region of Kentucky. He lived in coal mining camps until he was 12 years old when his parents, Henry and Anna Hurt, finally settled on Lott’s Creek, near the Perry/Knott County border.


He graduated from the historic Cordia Settlement School on Lott’s Creek and then Carr Creek High School at age 14 and enrolled at Alice Lloyd College (then Caney Junior College) in Pippa Passes, Ky. He went on to graduate from the University of Kentucky in 1957 with a BS in Anatomy and Physiology and received his MA in Health Care Administration from Central Michigan University in 1975.