Dr. Spencer Allen Collom, Jr. died at his home in Texarkana on October 10, 1955. He was born in Ratcliff, Texas on February 4, 1904, the son of Dr. Spencer A. Collom and Eugenie (Read) Collom. After graduating from Texarkana High School, he entered Washington University in St. Louis in 1921.
In 1925, he received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas, then graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville in 1929. His internship was in the Fort Sam Houston Station Hospital in San Antonio. With the exception of three years of military service during World War II, Dr. Collom practiced in Texarkana throughout his professional career, where he was associated with the Collom-Carney Clinic.
During the war, he was chief of orthopedic services at the Three Hundredth General Hospital in Italy. He earned the Bronze Star and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps.
Dr. Collom was a staff member of the Kansas City Southern and St. Louis Southwestern Railroads hospitals. He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Bowie County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1941. He was also a member of the Tri-State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association and the American Fracture Society. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the president of the Texarkana Hospital's board of directors.
He was also president of the Temple Memorial Home for Crippled Children, and was honorary president at the time of his death. He was president of the Texarkana chapter of Rotary International, and the Texarkana Knife and Fork Club, and was a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. He was a member of the Congregational Church.
Dr. Collom married Miss Mary Maddox in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 12, 1929. Mrs. Collom survives, as do one daughter, Mrs. Samuel A. Buchanan, Jr. of Texarkana; his mother, Mrs. Spencer A. Collom of Texarkana; and two sisters, Mrs. G.D. Gantt of Houston and Mrs. J.W. Hill of Dallas.
== == == 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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