Thaddeus, Tedd to his family and friends, was born April 13, 1973, to Patrick and Kathleen Reeser (VanWassenhove) in Ottawa, Illinois.
Tedd attended grade schools in Ottawa and Triumph, Illinois. He had a special love for music starting the age of 10, especially playing the drums. He was an avid baseball player and an excellent swimmer for the Ottawa YMCA swim team.
After relocating to West Virginia with his family shortly after his 8th-grade graduation, he attended Hedgesville High School, where he was a standout in football, cross country, and his favorite sport, baseball.
In 1991, after graduating high school, he attended Potomac State Junior College in Keyser, West Virginia, where he played baseball before transferring to West Virginia University in 1993. Tedd gave up his baseball career at WVU to pursue a degree in Mechanical Engineering, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in 1997.
Tedd held several engineering positions in West Virginia before moving to Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1998, he gained employment as an Engineer for Steel Dynamics Inc., where he would remain until his passing.
After he relocated to Fort Wayne, Indiana he met and later married Angelique (Peyton) Reeser and they were blessed with a beautiful little girl named Hannah E. Reeser, in 2003.
Tedd will be long remembered as a loyal and loving father, son, brother, uncle, and friend.
He is survived by his daughter, Hannah Reeser; father, Patrick Reeser; siblings, Jamie (Mick) Herzog, Matthew (Beth) Reeser, Julia (Adam) Ludwick, and Nathanael (Annette) Reeser; nephews, Kyle, Jared, and Brandon Herzog; Timothy Reeser, Luke Reeser, Reese (Hunter), Ryan, and Thaddeus Ludwick and nieces, Mickie Marie Herzog, Zoe Reeser, and Sarah Reeser as well as great-niece and great-nephew, Taylor and Owen Ludwick.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Kathleen Reeser, his former wife, Angelique Reeser and a niece, Jordan Ludwick.
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