Schede Wynn attended Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind (VSDB) with his other two deaf siblings, Otis (d. In Indiana) and Edna (d. In Indiana). All signed mixed of old French, British, and American signs at VSDB. Stories were passed down through their living deaf descendants remembering on the sign language part.
He moved to Baltimore, Maryland for a short time pursuing in a boxing career at a gym trained by a former deaf prizefighter, William O. "Dummy Decker" Dilworth. Schede was the unidentified person in "Baltimore's Deaf Heritage" book (2014) until discovered recently identified. During his prizefighting short-lived career, he was nicknamed "Shade" because others couldn't speak his birth name, "Schede."
He married Lorraine Goodroe of Philadelphia, Pa (d. October 2021).Lorraine attended Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Both are buried in Philadelphia, Pa. with a flat headstone sculpted of two "I love you" hand-shapes, an indication of deaf culture.
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame, 2007 at VSDB same year of his death.
He moved to Baltimore, Maryland for a short time pursuing in a boxing career at a gym trained by a former deaf prizefighter, William O. "Dummy Decker" Dilworth. Schede was the unidentified person in "Baltimore's Deaf Heritage" book (2014) until discovered recently identified. During his prizefighting short-lived career, he was nicknamed "Shade" because others couldn't speak his birth name, "Schede."
He married Lorraine Goodroe of Philadelphia, Pa (d. October 2021).Lorraine attended Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Both are buried in Philadelphia, Pa. with a flat headstone sculpted of two "I love you" hand-shapes, an indication of deaf culture.
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame, 2007 at VSDB same year of his death.
Schede Wynn attended Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind (VSDB) with his other two deaf siblings, Otis (d. In Indiana) and Edna (d. In Indiana). All signed mixed of old French, British, and American signs at VSDB. Stories were passed down through their living deaf descendants remembering on the sign language part.
He moved to Baltimore, Maryland for a short time pursuing in a boxing career at a gym trained by a former deaf prizefighter, William O. "Dummy Decker" Dilworth. Schede was the unidentified person in "Baltimore's Deaf Heritage" book (2014) until discovered recently identified. During his prizefighting short-lived career, he was nicknamed "Shade" because others couldn't speak his birth name, "Schede."
He married Lorraine Goodroe of Philadelphia, Pa (d. October 2021).Lorraine attended Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Both are buried in Philadelphia, Pa. with a flat headstone sculpted of two "I love you" hand-shapes, an indication of deaf culture.
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame, 2007 at VSDB same year of his death.
He moved to Baltimore, Maryland for a short time pursuing in a boxing career at a gym trained by a former deaf prizefighter, William O. "Dummy Decker" Dilworth. Schede was the unidentified person in "Baltimore's Deaf Heritage" book (2014) until discovered recently identified. During his prizefighting short-lived career, he was nicknamed "Shade" because others couldn't speak his birth name, "Schede."
He married Lorraine Goodroe of Philadelphia, Pa (d. October 2021).Lorraine attended Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Both are buried in Philadelphia, Pa. with a flat headstone sculpted of two "I love you" hand-shapes, an indication of deaf culture.
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame, 2007 at VSDB same year of his death.
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Sculpted "I Love You" hand-shapes, an indication of deaf culture.
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