Dr. Talmage Oliver Woolley of Orange, Texas died September 21, 1955 of acute myocardial infarction. The attack occurred while he was undergoing a routine physical examination in a local hospital. He was born January 28, 1885 in Overton, the son of James Hershal and Julia Cobb Woolley.
After attending public schools in Overton, he entered Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville. He received his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, graduating in 1911. In 1926 he earned a degree in health education from Columbia University in New York, and he did other postgraduate work in 1930 at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital.
Dr. Woolley began his medical practice in Palestine, where he was assistant house surgeon at the International and Great Northern Railway Employees Hospital. He practiced briefly in both Arp and Germantown. During World War I he served with the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, and at Fort Bliss. He was discharged as a captain in 1917.
Moving to Houston to continue his practice in 1921, Dr. Woolley became a staff member of the Baptist Hospital and was a professor of hygiene in the Houston public schools. Ten years later, he moved to Brenham and was associated with the St. Francis Hospital. Continuing his practice in Orange in 1941, Dr. Woolley was a staff member of the Orange City Hospital.
He had been a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations almost continuously throughout his career through the Anderson, Smith, Victoria-Calhoun-Goliad, Harris, Washington and Orange Counties Medical Societies. He was secretary of the Washington County Society in 1933 and 1934, and was elected president in 1938. He served as president of the Orange County Society from 1943-1945 and again in 1947. He was also a member of the Tenth District Medical Society. Dr. Woolley was given an award of appreciation for his efforts in planning and building the Orange County Memorial Hospital in 1954.
He was a steward and trustee of the First Methodist Church, a member of Rotary International, and a 32nd degree Mason and member of the Shrine. Dr. Woolley married Miss Livy Mae Cunningham in Tyler on August 11, 1912. Mrs. Woolley survives, as do three children: Mrs. C.I. Whitehead of Houston, John P. Woolley of Baltimore, Maryland, and Mrs. O.H. Landua of Annapolis, Maryland. He also leaves three sisters: Mrs. S.W. Adams of Austin, Mrs. S.M. Swindall of Brookfield, Illinois, and Mrs. A.F. Allen of Glenwood Spring, Colorado. One brother, J.P. Woolley of Shreveport, Louisiana, and thirteen grandchildren also survive.
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