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Ted Bearden | Dawson County, Georgia

Ted earned a degree from Gupton Jones College. He is married to his wife Lisa, and together they have 2 sons. He has served as president of the Independent Funeral Directors of Georgia, the Georgia Coroner's Association, and the Dawson County Rotary Club. 

Ted is the president of Bearden Funeral Home. 

Ted J. Bearden currently serves as coroner of Dawson County.

As of July 30, 2024, Ted J Bearden did not have a website or any information online.

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Ted J Bearden

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 

The chief medical examiner for the county