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{{Infobox person
|name=Redden Thaddeus "Thad" Andress<br>
(Business, civic, and religious leader)
|birth_date=August 7, 1932
|birth_place=[[Minden, Louisiana]]
|death_date=February 20, 2018 (aged 85)
|death_place=Minden, Louisiana
|spouse=(1) Sarah Elizabeth "Sally" Tatum Andress (married 1959-2001, her death)<br>
(2) Oneta Hodson Hancock Andress<br>
Children from first marriage:<br>
Weston Andress<br>
Elizabeth Steedman<br>
Laura Beaver<br>
Collier Smith<br>
Stepchildren from second marriage:<br>
Kelly Hancock<br>
Allyson H. Kinzel<br>
Thirteen grandchildren<br>
Parents:<br>
Harry Carter and Treeby Miller Andress
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
|party=
}}
'''Redden Thaddeus Andress, known as '''Thad Andress'' (August 7, 1932 – February 20, 2018), was a [[business]]man and civic and religious figure in his native [[Minden, Louisiana]]
==Background==
Andress' family settled in Minden in the 1850s. His great- grandfather, Christopher "Chris" Chaffe (1818-1894),<ref name=cchaffe>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Chaffe&GSfn=Christopher&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=55888764&df=all&
|Christopher Chaffe|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|date=April 6, 2018}}</ref> migrated in 1853 to Minden from his native [[England]] to join his brother, John, who had already arrived. A [[blacksmith]], Chris Chaffe became one of the community leaders of early Minden. He operated a stagecoach line that crisscrossed North Louisiana and had the mail contract for most of that territory. <ref name=jagan>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/andress-minden-history-go-hand-in-hand/|title=Andress, Minden history go hand-in-hand|publisher''The Minden Press-Herald''|author=John Agan|date=February 22, 2018|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>
Andress was the oldest of three children of Harry Carter Andress (1903 -1980),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30052889|title=Harry Carter Andress|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>
who was the finance commissioner on the Minden City Council in the 1960s, and the former Treeby Miller (1905-1976). She was named for her mother, Thad's grandmother, Treeby Chaffe (1865-1953), the youngest of the six children of Chris Chaffe and the former Jane Farley (1823-1868).<ref name=cchaffe/> Thad Andress was named for his uncle, Redden Thaddeus Andress, I, Harry Andress' brother.<ref name=jagan/>
Thad Andress was co-[[valedictorian]] of the 1950 Minden High School graduating class. He then obtained a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[economics]] in 1954 from Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], at which he was nominated to Phi Beta Kappa. He later served for six years on the Sewanee trustees. Andress served in the [[United States Army]] Guided Missile Battalion at Fort Bliss in [[El Paso]], [[Texas]]. Thereafter, he received his [[Master of Business Administration]] degree from [[Harvard University]] in Cambridge, [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=obit/>
==Community service==
After college, Andress returned to Minden in 1958 to become the vice-president and assistant manager of the [[Ford]] dealership, Andress Motor Company, Inc. When the dealership was sold in 1965, Andress acquired and operated the R. H. Miller Insurance Company for twenty-nine years, named for his grandfather, Robert Hyneman Miller (1864-1941), cashier of the former Bank of Minden who founded the agency. Thad Andress was a director of Minden Building and Loan Association from 1965 to 1980 and a director and member of the executive committee of the former Minden Bank and Trust Company (now part of Regions Bank) from 1980 to 1999. Since his retirement from the insurance office, he managed his family's timberlands.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=redden-thaddeus-andress-ii&pid=188252176|title=Redden Andress obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=February 22, 2018|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>
Early in his career, Andress was named Minden's "Most Outstanding Young Man" and "Man of the Year". He founded the Boys and Girls Club of Minden, which closed after ten years. When the [[murder]] rate in Minden reached fifty in a single year, a considerable number for a small city, he became the chairman of the anti-crime group, the Minden Drug Committee. He was a long-term member of the Minden Lion's International.<ref name=obit/>
A high official in the [[Episcopal Church]], Andress held membership with the St. John's congregation in Minden and served many years on the vestry, as warden, and finance chairman. He was a lector and a deputy to diocesan conventions. For thirteen years, he chaired the Diocesan Finance Committee for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana. For eight years, he was the chairman of diocesan board of trustees. He was a deputy to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church for eight consecutive conventions over a period of twenty-one years.<ref name=obit/>
Andress worked for the establishment of a museum in downtown Minden through his role as president of the Dorcheat Historical Association. Museum director Schelly Brown Francis said that the facility owes its origin to Andress' influence. By the time of Andress' death, "Thad’s dream is a working, functioning reality. He was committed to having the best small museum possible done during his lifetime," said Francis.<ref name=jagan/>
With his first wife, the former Sarah Elizabeth "Sally" Tatum (1937-2001), <ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Andress&GSfn=Sally&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=30052890&df=all&
|title=Sally Tatum Andress|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>Andress had four children, Weston Andress, Elizabeth Steedman, Laura Beaver, and Collier Smith. After Sally's death, he wed Oneta Hancock (born March 28, 1934), the widow of the Minden chiropractor Charles Delaware Hancock (1930-1991).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/charles-hancock/e347012221800|title=Charles D. Hancock|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>From the second marriage, Andress acquired two step-children, Kendall Hancock and .<ref name=obit/>
Thad and Sally Andress are interred with other family members in the historic Minden Cemetery,<ref name=obit/> of which he formerly served on the board.<ref name=jagain/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andress, Thad}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]
[[Category:United States Army}}
|name=Redden Thaddeus "Thad" Andress<br>
(Business, civic, and religious leader)
|birth_date=August 7, 1932
|birth_place=[[Minden, Louisiana]]
|death_date=February 20, 2018 (aged 85)
|death_place=Minden, Louisiana
|spouse=(1) Sarah Elizabeth "Sally" Tatum Andress (married 1959-2001, her death)<br>
(2) Oneta Hodson Hancock Andress<br>
Children from first marriage:<br>
Weston Andress<br>
Elizabeth Steedman<br>
Laura Beaver<br>
Collier Smith<br>
Stepchildren from second marriage:<br>
Kelly Hancock<br>
Allyson H. Kinzel<br>
Thirteen grandchildren<br>
Parents:<br>
Harry Carter and Treeby Miller Andress
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
|party=
}}
'''Redden Thaddeus Andress, known as '''Thad Andress'' (August 7, 1932 – February 20, 2018), was a [[business]]man and civic and religious figure in his native [[Minden, Louisiana]]
==Background==
Andress' family settled in Minden in the 1850s. His great- grandfather, Christopher "Chris" Chaffe (1818-1894),<ref name=cchaffe>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Chaffe&GSfn=Christopher&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1168&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=55888764&df=all&
|Christopher Chaffe|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|date=April 6, 2018}}</ref> migrated in 1853 to Minden from his native [[England]] to join his brother, John, who had already arrived. A [[blacksmith]], Chris Chaffe became one of the community leaders of early Minden. He operated a stagecoach line that crisscrossed North Louisiana and had the mail contract for most of that territory. <ref name=jagan>{{cite web|url=http://press-herald.com/andress-minden-history-go-hand-in-hand/|title=Andress, Minden history go hand-in-hand|publisher''The Minden Press-Herald''|author=John Agan|date=February 22, 2018|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>
Andress was the oldest of three children of Harry Carter Andress (1903 -1980),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30052889|title=Harry Carter Andress|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>
who was the finance commissioner on the Minden City Council in the 1960s, and the former Treeby Miller (1905-1976). She was named for her mother, Thad's grandmother, Treeby Chaffe (1865-1953), the youngest of the six children of Chris Chaffe and the former Jane Farley (1823-1868).<ref name=cchaffe/> Thad Andress was named for his uncle, Redden Thaddeus Andress, I, Harry Andress' brother.<ref name=jagan/>
Thad Andress was co-[[valedictorian]] of the 1950 Minden High School graduating class. He then obtained a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[economics]] in 1954 from Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], at which he was nominated to Phi Beta Kappa. He later served for six years on the Sewanee trustees. Andress served in the [[United States Army]] Guided Missile Battalion at Fort Bliss in [[El Paso]], [[Texas]]. Thereafter, he received his [[Master of Business Administration]] degree from [[Harvard University]] in Cambridge, [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=obit/>
==Community service==
After college, Andress returned to Minden in 1958 to become the vice-president and assistant manager of the [[Ford]] dealership, Andress Motor Company, Inc. When the dealership was sold in 1965, Andress acquired and operated the R. H. Miller Insurance Company for twenty-nine years, named for his grandfather, Robert Hyneman Miller (1864-1941), cashier of the former Bank of Minden who founded the agency. Thad Andress was a director of Minden Building and Loan Association from 1965 to 1980 and a director and member of the executive committee of the former Minden Bank and Trust Company (now part of Regions Bank) from 1980 to 1999. Since his retirement from the insurance office, he managed his family's timberlands.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=redden-thaddeus-andress-ii&pid=188252176|title=Redden Andress obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=February 22, 2018|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>
Early in his career, Andress was named Minden's "Most Outstanding Young Man" and "Man of the Year". He founded the Boys and Girls Club of Minden, which closed after ten years. When the [[murder]] rate in Minden reached fifty in a single year, a considerable number for a small city, he became the chairman of the anti-crime group, the Minden Drug Committee. He was a long-term member of the Minden Lion's International.<ref name=obit/>
A high official in the [[Episcopal Church]], Andress held membership with the St. John's congregation in Minden and served many years on the vestry, as warden, and finance chairman. He was a lector and a deputy to diocesan conventions. For thirteen years, he chaired the Diocesan Finance Committee for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana. For eight years, he was the chairman of diocesan board of trustees. He was a deputy to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church for eight consecutive conventions over a period of twenty-one years.<ref name=obit/>
Andress worked for the establishment of a museum in downtown Minden through his role as president of the Dorcheat Historical Association. Museum director Schelly Brown Francis said that the facility owes its origin to Andress' influence. By the time of Andress' death, "Thad’s dream is a working, functioning reality. He was committed to having the best small museum possible done during his lifetime," said Francis.<ref name=jagan/>
With his first wife, the former Sarah Elizabeth "Sally" Tatum (1937-2001), <ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Andress&GSfn=Sally&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=30052890&df=all&
|title=Sally Tatum Andress|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>Andress had four children, Weston Andress, Elizabeth Steedman, Laura Beaver, and Collier Smith. After Sally's death, he wed Oneta Hancock (born March 28, 1934), the widow of the Minden chiropractor Charles Delaware Hancock (1930-1991).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/charles-hancock/e347012221800|title=Charles D. Hancock|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>From the second marriage, Andress acquired two step-children, Kendall Hancock and .<ref name=obit/>
Thad and Sally Andress are interred with other family members in the historic Minden Cemetery,<ref name=obit/> of which he formerly served on the board.<ref name=jagain/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andress, Thad}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]
[[Category:United States Army}}