Dr. Lilburn Echols Standifer of Lamesa, Texas, died September 15, 1955 at a hospital in Big Spring. He had been in ill health since 1951, when he suffered a heart attack.
Dr. Standifer was born on June 4, 1895 in Tulia, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Standifer. He attended public schools in Spur and did his premed work at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in College Station. He then attended the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, but received his degree in 1925 from the Tulane University School of Medicine.
He began his practice in Junction, and practiced in Lamesa, Turkey, Oklahoma City, Vernon, Spur and Austin. During World War II, he served as a major in the Army Medical Corps and participated in the African Campaign. In 1946 he returned to Lamesa and practiced there until his retirement in 1951.
He was a member of the Texas Medical Association during most of his professional career, through the Dawson-Lynn-Gaines, Menard-Kimble, McCulloch, Childress-Collingsworth-Donley-Hall, Wilbarger, or Dawson-Lynn-Terry-Gaines-Yoakum Counties Medical Societies. He was president of the latter group in 1947 and had previously served as its secretary. He was also a member of the American Medical Association and Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity. He was a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of Rotary International, the Masonic Order including the Shrine, and the Methodist Church.
Dr. Standifer was married April 25, 1927 in El Paso, to Miss Edith Steele. Survivors are Mrs. Standifer and one daughter, Mrs. Marshall A. Pharr. Mrs. Pharr lives in Port Lyantey, French Morocco, where her husband is in military service. Dr. Standifer's sister Mrs. John L. Sallee of Lubbock, also survives.
--- --- --- 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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