Dr. Rush Quinn Hunter of Palestine, Texas, died in a local hospital on September 19, 1955. He was born on December 10, 1897 in Bullard, and was the son of Dr. Ripley Hayes Hunter and Bernice Jones Hunter. He attended Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, then went to Southern Methodist University, from which he graduated in 1918.
He received his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1922. After serving an internship at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, he served a residency at the Missouri Pacific Railroad Hospital in Palestine and began his practice there. In partnership with his brother, Dr. R.H. Hunter, and a nephew, Dr. R.H. Kay, he owned and operated the Hunter-Hunter-Kay Clinic in Palestine until the time of his death.
Dr. Hunter was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Anderson-Houston-Leon Counties Medical Society, of which he was president in 1936. He was also a member of the Eleventh District Medical Society, Alpha Kappa Alpha medical fraternity, Rotary International, the Masonic Lodge and the Methodist Church. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and chief of staff at Memorial Hospital. From 1918 until 1920, Dr. Hunter was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
On September 24, 1924, Dr. Hunter married Miss Aline West in Bay City, Texas. Mrs. Hunter and two children, Mrs. Mary Martha Styner and Rush Q. Hunter, Jr., both of Austin, survive. He also leaves five sisters; Mrs. L.F. Kay, Mrs. Hunt Graham and Mrs. Ray Smith, all of Tyler, Mrs. N.C. Garrison of Garrison, and Mrs. Charles R. Guinn of Waco; and one brother, Dr. R.H. Hunter of Palestine.
= = = 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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