Dr. William Daugherty Petit of Presidio, Texas died in an El Paso hospital on July 17, 1955 of pulmonary infarction due to pulmonary venous thrombosis. He was born October 9, 1883 in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Dr. Julius C. Petit and Esther Ann Archer Petit. He graduated from Kansas State University in 1908 and entered Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his doctor of medicine degree with high honors in 1911 and served his internship at St. Louis City Hospital.
He was appointed house surgeon at the Missouri Pacific Hospital in St. Louis and held this position for two years. In 1915, he joined the Army Medical Corps as a first lieutenant and served overseas during World War I. He had attained the rank of major when he was honorable discharged in 1922. He was later promoted to lieutenant colonel in the medical reserve corps.
In 1924, Dr. Petit entered private practice in Thorndale, and joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934 as a medical officer. He moved to Presidio in 1942 and had a private practice there until the time of his death. In addition, he was an officer with the United States Public Health Service in Presidio. He took time out during his medical career to do postgraduate work in Vienna and at Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans.
Dr. Petit was an honorary member of the Texas Medical Association through the Pecos-Jeff Davis-Presidio-Brewster Counties Medical Society, and was a member of the American Medical Association. He was also a member of Phi Beat Pi, the Masonic Lodge and the Episcopal church.
He married Miss Inez Hysaw on March 13, 1916 in Marfa, Texas. Survivors are Mrs. Petit, a daughter Mrs. Jack Hunter of Alexandria, Egypt and one granddaughter.
= = = 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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