Dr. Davis Lee Sprinkle of Dallas died in a local hospital on August 27, 1955, of a heart ailment. He was born on August 18, 1890, near Temple, Texas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin F. Sprinkle. After attending public schools in Lone Star and Kaufman, he entered North Texas State Normal College, where he attended two years before enrolling in the Baylor College of Pharmacology in Dallas. He graduated in 1918. Seven years later, he returned to school for a year of pre-medical studies at Baylor University in Waco, then received his doctor of medicine degree in 1930 from Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas.
Dr. Sprinkle served his internship at Morningside Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Tampa Municipal Hospital in Tampa, Florida. Beginning his medical career as a general practitioner in Mabank, Texas, Dr. Sprinkle remained there for five years. He then served his residency in radiology at University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1937-1938. Later he became a radiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Fort Howard. In 1938, he went to Tampa as superintendent and radiologist of the Tampa Memorial Hospital. He then practiced briefly in Pineville, Louisiana and in 1942 moved to McAlester, Oklahoma. There he served as radiologist for the Albert Pike and St. Mary's Hospitals and carried on a private practice in his specialty.
Dr. Sprinkle returned to Texas in 1944 and opened a private office in Harlingen, where he specialized in radiology. He remained there for seven years before moving again to Dallas, in 1952, where he was in active practice at the time of his death. He had been a member of the Texas Medical Association consecutively through the Kaufman, Cameron-Willacy, Erath-Hood-Somervell, and Dallas Counties Medical Societies. He was president of the Kaufman County society in 1933. His membership in other medical organizations included the American Medical Association, the Radiological Society of North America and the Texas Radiological Society. During World War I, he served in the naval medical corps and was in the medical reserve for ten years.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Shrine, the Lions Club and the Kiwanis Club. He married Miss Elsie Pearl Caldwell on April 12, 1914. He is survived by Mrs. Sprinkle and two brothers, Joe and Henry Sprinkle, both of Kaufman, Texas.
= = = 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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