Dr. Harold H. Boehning, senior physician at Abilene State Hospital, died in Dallas on August 31, 1955. He had gone to Dallas for a vacation and to visit with his daughters who live there.
Dr. Boehning was born on December 13, 1893 in Elgin, Illinois, and moved to Canyon, Texas at the age of eleven. After attending Clarendon College, he entered Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and received his B.A. degree in 1923. In 1927, he graduated from the Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas.
Miss Grace Clark, a nursing student, and Dr. Boehning were married on July 3, 1928. After they completed their training, they went to Korea as medical missionaries of the Methodist Church and remained there until 1940, when they returned to Abilene, and Dr. Boehning joined the staff of the Abilene State Hospital. He was appointed assistant superintendent in 1943.
Survivors include Mrs. Boehning, a son, Dr. Harold Clark Boehning, now stationed in Fort Bliss; two daughters, Mrs. Richard Archer and Mrs. Robert Clawson, both of Dallas; and five brothers: Clarence W.H. of Abilene, Walter of Canyon, Alvin of Amarillo, Willard of Wildorado, and Kenneth of Omaha, Nebraska. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Ester Sembritzke of Clyde.
== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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