J. Ted Hartman, M. D., was born to George Bernhardt and Gertrude Moore Hartman on June 13, 1925, on the Cajun Plains of Southwest Louisiana in the sawmill town of DeRidder. At the age of ten, he moved with his family to Ames, Iowa, when his Father accepted a position on the Faculty of Iowa State University.
Upon graduation from Ames, Iowa, High School in 1943, he enlisted in the Army and was sent to Camp Roberts, CA, for Basic Training. At the conclusion of Basic Training, he was assigned to the Army ASTP program at the University of Oregon. When the ASTP Program was closed, he was transferred to Camp Cooke, CA, where he was assigned as a tank driver in the Eleventh Armored Division. In 1944, the Eleventh Armored Division was transferred to England and then to Belgium where Hartman at age 19 drove a tank into battle under General Patton.
At the conclusion of European hostilities, he served in the Army of Occupation in Germany and later was assigned as a student at the Biarritz (France) American University. Following discharge from the Army in 1946, he attended Iowa State University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree. He next received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago in 1952. He interned at Charity Hospital of Louisiana in New Orleans. Following this, he entered the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It was there he met and married the love of his life, Jean Ann Rinehart. Following completion of the Residency, he received a Fellowship for one year at Oxford University, England.
After completion of the Fellowship, he returned to Ann Arbor, MI, where he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1958. In 1961, he joined the staff of The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1968, he moved to Chicago to assume the Chairmanship of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Cook County Hospital. There he taught Orthopaedic Surgery residents from all four of the medical schools in Chicago (Northwestern University, University of Illinois, University of Chicago and Loyola University).
While in Chicago, he was invited to serve as a consultant for the establishment of a new Medical School on the campus of Texas Tech University. During that time, he was offered and accepted the position as Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. He later served as Dean of the Texas Tech Medical School from 1982 to 1989.
In 1981, he was elected a Director of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and served in this position for nine years. This organization is responsible for maintaining the high quality of orthopaedic surgery practice throughout the United States.
He was a member of the Lubbock First Presbyterian Church for forty years. Most recently he was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lubbock.
Hartman is survived by his wife of sixty-three years, Jean of Lubbock; three children, son Jim and wife Lori of Tempe, AZ, son Tom and wife Mary of Murphy, TX, and daughter, Martha Schutte and husband Tim of Encinitas, CA; four grandchildren, Amanda Schutte of Chicago, IL, Libby Schutte of New York, NY, Mark Hartman of College Station, TX and Daniel Hartman of College Station, TX.
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, February 18 at 2:00 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Lubbock.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made either to Hospice of Lubbock (www.hospiceoflubbock.org) or to Community Health Center of Lubbock (www.chclubbock.org).
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