Dr. Neil E. Greer of Lockney, Texas, died in a Lubbock hospital on June 26, 1955, following a cerebral thrombosis and eight years of illness. He was born in Prescott, Arkansas on October 10, 1882 to Will and Cindy Greer. He received his preliminary education in De Leon, Texas and graduated from the Medical Department of the Texas Christian University in 1914. He practiced for a short time in De Leon, Fort Worth, and Petersburg, before moving to Lockney in 1916.
Dr. Greer was elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association in 1950, after having been a member throughout his professional career, most recently through the Hale-Floyd-Briscoe Counties Medical Society. He was a past president of that body, and was a member of the American Medical Association. He was a Methodist, a Mason, and a member of Rotary International. During World War I, he served on the local committee on procurement and assignment of physicians.
On September 6, 1906, Miss Oma Patterson and Dr. Greer were married in De Leon. Mrs. Greer survives, as do two sons, Dr. Wayne Greer of Lockney and Mr. Doyle Greer of Lubbock. Four grandchildren also survive.
= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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