Dr. Phillip Lee Vardy of Estelline, Texas died on August 30, 1955 in a Childress hospital of a coronary thrombosis. He was the son of H.C. and Mary Brain Vardy, born on January 8, 1871 near Weatherford, Texas. He attended public schools in Chico, then worked for several years on a ranch in Hall County. He entered Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, and graduated from there in 1897, after which he began his practice in Estelline. He was in active practice there for 58 years, taking time out in 1903 and 1910 to do postgraduate work in St. Louis, Missouri.
Elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association in 1947, Dr. Vardy had been a member of the Armstrong-Donley-Childress-Collingsworth-Hall Counties Medical Society since 1908, and was president of the society in 1942. He was also a member of the American Medical Association and was the physician for the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad for many years.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Order of the Eastern Star in Estelline, and of the Memphis Chapter and Council and Commandery. He was also a member of the Lions Club and the Estelline Methodist Church, for which he was secretary and treasurer for more than 40 years.
Dr. Vardy married Miss Mary Eddins of Chico on October 11, 1899. Mrs. Vardy survives, as do four children: Phillip L. Vardy, Jr. of Slaton, James DeWitt Vardy of Turkey, Mrs. W.C. Gilmore of Slaton, and Mrs. Morris Currin of Fort Worth. He also leaves four grandchildren. A third son, Robert Winston Vardy, preceded his father in death.
== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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