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James Loren Hedrick (Mr. Smooth), 77, of Tucson, AZ, passed away on Sept. 13, 2017, of stage 4 lung and kidney cancer.

The funeral will be in Powell, WY at a later date.

James was born in Borden, Indiana, on May 13, 1940. He was an only child. He married his high school sweetheart, Janet, right out of High School. They divorced after about two years and he met and married Anita. She had a 4-year-old son at the time and he kept his dad's name: Randolph (Randy) Wheeler. Jim and Anita were happily married for 20 years. When Randy came out of the military he was having some problems. He wouldn't t...