Dr. Robert Earl Cone, head of the University of Texas Medical Branch Department of Urology, died at his home in Galveston, Texas, on May 24, 1955, of adenocarcinoma of the stomach. He was born in Galveston on February 27, 1894, the son of Mr. and Mrs. E.O. Cone, Sr. He was graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1915, and returned to Galveston to complete his medical education at the University's Medical Branch, receiving his degree in 1919.
After an internship at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Dr. Cone served his residency at St. Vincent's Hospital in Cleveland. In 1920, he began his teaching career in the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and was made an adjunct professor of urology in 1942. He became a consultant to the board of urology at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston in 1954, and held that position until the time of his death.
Dr. Cone held membership in many professional organizations. He was a member and past president of both the Texas Urological Society and the South Central Section of the American Urological Association. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Urology, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the Galveston County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and the Texas Surgical Society. His medical fraternity was Phi Rho Sigma.
Dr. Cone was a member of the Galveston Artillery Club, the Galveston Country Club and the Episcopal Church. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity, and director of the Woodley Petroleum Company in Houston. He is remembered as an outstanding athlete in his college days and played one year with the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team. More recently he won a number of trophies as an amateur golfer.
Miss Malcolm Parten and Dr. Cone were married on October 4, 1926 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Mrs. Cone and two children, Mrs. Mary Chadwick Philley of Houston and Dr. Robert Earl Cone, Jr. of Galveston, survive. Other survivors include his mother Mrs. E.O. Cone, Sr. of Galveston, a brother E.O. Cone, Jr., and a sister Mrs. Dorothy Vaughan, both of El Paso.
= = = 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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