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About Us
The Staff
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History
Hear Central was started in
1993 as Hearing
Resource Services by Tom Jones. Tom started losing his hearing at
12 years
of age and it became progressively worse. At the age of 20, he dropped
out of
college, unable to understand the instructors, and began wearing
hearing aids.
At the age of 47, Tom had a profound hearing loss and was unable to
communicate
effectively with people outside of his family. In 1989, at the age of
49, Tom
became part of a study on Cochlear Implants and was implanted in
December of
that year. He was fitted with a processor in January 1990 and by early
spring
was hearing wonderful sounds he had not heard in over 20 years. Tom had
gone
from having 3% of his hearing to around 70%.
Tom was so excited about being able to hear that he started trying new
things
to help him hear in different settings using assistive listening
devices. In
the fall of 1992, Tom was sitting in church at First Methodist Church
of
Cordele, Georgia using a hearing assistance receiver, when he heard a
sermon
for the first time in over 20 years. As tears came to his eyes, he knew
what he
needed to do.
In January 1993, Tom started Hearing Resource Services and
worked with
churches to install hearing assistance systems so that people could
hear the
word of God that so many were missing. In 1995, he opened an office in
Albany,
Georgia and expanded his product line to include hearing aids,
amplified telephones,
alarm clocks, and other devices to "help people hear".
Tom passed away from a long fight with cancer in the fall of 1997, at
which
time his son Danny Jones continued his father’s mission.
Tom’s memory still lives
on in the people who are able to hear better, because of his dedication
to
educate and provide hearing assistance to anyone who wants to hear.
Today
Hear Central is owned and
operated by a group of seasoned hearing professionals with over 40
years
combined experience in the industry. Our staff is dedicated to
assisting the
hearing impaired and providing world class customer service.
Hear
Central has expanded to a
nationwide distributor of assisted listening devices. With Hear
Central's presence on the Internet, hearing-impaired people around the
world
have the chance to share in the miracle of "hearing wonderful
sounds".
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