Dr. Julius Ernest Levick of Houston died on August 26, 1955 after a short illness. He was born on January 29, 1899 in Ekaterinoslav, now called Dnepropetrovsk, Russia, the son of Moses and Molly Levick. After coming to North America, he attended the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, and the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1922.
He served an internship in the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg for one year, then served a general residency in Vancouver General Hospital for one year, then spent another year of general internship at St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He practiced medicine in Elk City, Oklahoma from 1925 until 1949.
Dr. Levick was an officer in the Army Medical Corps from 1942 until 1945, during which time he received training in psychiatry. He moved to Houston in 1949 and became a psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Hospital, where he was practicing at the time of his death.
Dr. Levick became affiliated with the Texas Medical Association through the Harris County Medical Society, and was also a member of the American Medical Association, Phi Delta Epsilon medical fraternity, the Masonic Lodge, the Kiwanis Club and Temple Beth Israel. He was married to Miss Dena Weinberg in Oklahoma City in 1926.
Survivors are two daughters; Mrs. Melvin Anchell and Miss Diana Levick of Houston, a son, Norman Levick of Amarillo, and five grandchildren.
--- --- --- published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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