Dr. Arthur Ernest Moon, who spent his entire professional life in Temple, Texas, died at his home on July 27, 1955 of a heart attack. He was born March 5, 1890 in Lineville, Alabama to Jacob Washington Moon and Mary Jane Strickland Moon. He attended Howard College in Birmingham and then graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas in 1915. He received his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1920 and became an intern at the Scott and White Memorial Hospitals, where he later became a resident doctor, then a permanent member of the hospital staff, specializing in internal medicine. He had retired last April 1st.
Dr. Moon was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Bell County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1942. He was also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Texas Club of Internists, the Southern Medical Association and Alpha Omega Alpha. He was a senior consultant at the University of Texas Postgraduate School of Medicine in Temple, and was an instructor in the Scott and White School of Nursing from 1925-1935. He was also a member of the Baptist Church.
Dr. Moon married Miss Flora Wells on June 15, 1920. Their son, Dr. Arthur E. Moon, Jr., died in an automobile accident in January 1952. Survivors include Mrs. Moon, two brothers, Dr. A.J. Moon of Liberty, Missouri and David Moon of Fort Worth; four sisters, Mrs. Nora Phillips of Coronado, California, Mrs. P.E. Reeves of Iago, Mrs. J.A. McIver of Fort Worth, and Mrs. James Pritchett of Beaumont; and three grandchildren.
+++ +++ +++ 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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