Dr. Thomas Stafford Love, an honorary member of the Texas Medical Association, died at his home in Dallas on June 26, 1955 of a heart attack. He was born September 5, 1895 in Springfield, Missouri, to the late Thomas B. Love and Martha Goode Love. He attended public schools in Dallas and graduated from the old Bryan High School, now known as Crozier Technical High School. After attending the University of Texas and Washington and Lee University in St. Louis, he went to Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was president of his graduating class in 1920.
Dr. Love served his internship at the Biltmore General Hospital in Biltmore, North Carolina. He was a resident at the New Orleans Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in New Orleans in 1923. Later that year, he began his practice in Dallas, specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
He had been a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Dallas County Medical Society since 1923, and was elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association this year. Dr. Love was also a member of the Southern Medical Association, the Texas Society of Ophthalmology and Otolarynogology, and Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity.
He was a member of the Dallas Athletic Club, the Brook Hollow Golf Club, Beta Theta Pi social fraternity, and the Presbyterian church. He served in the Army Medical Corps during World War I, and was assigned to a hospital in Washington, D.C.
Miss Ethel Jeansonne and Dr. Love were married on June 25, 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mrs. Love survives, along with two children, Thomas Stafford Love, Jr. and Mrs. Bedford Wynn, both of Dallas.
= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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