Fred Weeks

Savannah, TN 

1932-2016

Fred Weeks of Savannah, TN was actually born in Corinth, Mississippi but grew up and went to school in Savannah. In the early 1960’s he moved to Memphis and worked for Avers & Ponds Piano Co. where he met some local duck hunters and began his fascination with duck hunting an ultimately making duck calls. His first calls contained Yentzen guts but by the early 1970’s after examining a Earl Dennison call he began to make metal reed calls. After a trip to Stuttgart, AR in the late 1970’s he picked up some plastic reed calls and in his last years living in Memphis his calls were outfitted with an Arkansas style plastic reed. Fred did return to Savannah and stopped making calls for some time but by 1994 he began to make calls again and he marked them with (FRW)