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Capt. David Hedrick
Retired Navy Capt. David Irvm Hedrick, 78, commanding officer of the Naval Weapons Laboratory at Dahlgren, Va during World War II, died Wednesday at Bethesda Naval Hospital after a brief illness.
An ordnance expert and veteran of both World Wars Capt. Hedrick received the Legion of Merit for his service at the Weapons Laboratory (then the Naval Proving Ground) from 1941 to 1946.
A native of New Washington, Ohio, he was graduated with distinction from the Naval Academy in 1909. Two years later, he began the first of five tours of duty with the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy Department here. ,.-i ,1. During these years he did postgraduate work in ordnance engineering. After a tour at sea as commander of the destroyer Burns, Capt Hedrick returned to the Naval Academy as an instructor from 1926-29, He then returned to sea as skipper of the destroyer Marcus, and a year later commanded the destroyer Talbot. In 1033, he was graduated from the senior course at the Navy War College at Newport. In 1937 he was again attached to the Bureau of Ordnance. He returned to the sea as commander of the heavy cruiser Minneapolis before his assignment as commanding officer of the Naval Weapons Laboratory in 1941. He retired at the end of his tour of duty there. Since then, he and his wife, Mildred, made their home in’ FUnt Hill. Other survivors Include two sons, Navy Capt. James G. Hedrick of 2005 Columbia pike, Arlington, and David W. Hedrick of Center Valley, Pa., and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas J. Walker, until recently of the River House, Arlington, and now of Albuquerque, N.M.
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