Dr. William Mason Dickens, chief medical director of the Veterans Administration Regional Office in Waco, Texas, died of a coronary occlusion in a Brownwood hospital on July 28, 1955. He had started on a short business trip and had to stop at Brownwood after suffering a heart attack.
Dr. Dickens was born January 11, 1888 in Merit, Texas, the son of Samuel Marshall and Virginia Dee (Wilcoxon) Dickens. He attended North Texas State Normal College in Denton, and Grayson College, Whitewright, before entering the University of Tennessee School of Medicine, from which he was graduated in 1911. He interned in Roosevelt Hospital in New York for a year and a half, then began his practice in Greenville, where he remained until 1941.
At that time, he entered the Army Medical Corps and served at Camp Bowie, Camp Claiborne (in Louisiana) and at the induction center in Houston. At the close of the war, when he was retired as a lieutenant colonel, he was named a medical officer for the Veterans Administration and had been assigned to the regional office in Waco for several years at the time of his death. He also served overseas in the Medical Corps during World War I.
Dr. Dickens was a member of the Texas Medical Association through the Hunt County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1941. He served as city health officer of Greenville for four years, and in 1937 he was appointed to the State Board of Health. He belonged to the Baptist Church.
He was interested in military affairs, and while practicing in Greenville he organized Company M, 14th Infantry of the National Guard, and served as captain of the company. He was active in the American Legion and served as first vice-state commander and a member of the board of trustees. He enjoyed fishing and spent leisure time on a farm recently purchased in Arkansas.
Dr. Dickens and Miss Vera Estelle Davis were married on June 30, 1914 in Farmersville; Mrs. Dickens died on September 30, 1942. Two children, Miss Betty J. Dickens of Waco and Dr. William R. Dickens of Cincinnati, Ohio and three grandchildren survive.
=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Joseph Edward Jones, M.D. (1887-1955)
Dr. Joseph Edward Jones died at his home in Waxahatchie, Texas on September 1, 1955, of a brain hemorrhage. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Jones, and was born on November 4, 1887 in Hico. He attended Fort Worth University, then entered the old Physio-Medical College of Texas in Dallas. Dr. Jones completed his medical education at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas in 1914. Later in his career, he took several postgraduate courses.
He began his practice in Boyce, and remained there for four years before moving to Waxahachie, where he practiced for 37 years. He was a member of the Ellis County Medical Society, the Fourteenth District Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He had served on the city council and was a deacon in the First Baptist Church.
During World War I, Dr. Jones was a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, and was stationed at Camp Kearney, California. He and Miss Luda Laird were married on December 24, 1906 in Purves. Mrs. Jones survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. Romney Rudolph and Mrs. Wylie Motley of Waxahachie; four brothers, Robert Jones of Lubbock, Dee Jones and Leo Jones of Electra, and Herman Jones of Los Angeles. Two sisters; Mrs. J.F. Warren of Dublin, and Mrs. Charner Allen of Frederick, Oklahoma.
=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
He began his practice in Boyce, and remained there for four years before moving to Waxahachie, where he practiced for 37 years. He was a member of the Ellis County Medical Society, the Fourteenth District Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He had served on the city council and was a deacon in the First Baptist Church.
During World War I, Dr. Jones was a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, and was stationed at Camp Kearney, California. He and Miss Luda Laird were married on December 24, 1906 in Purves. Mrs. Jones survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. Romney Rudolph and Mrs. Wylie Motley of Waxahachie; four brothers, Robert Jones of Lubbock, Dee Jones and Leo Jones of Electra, and Herman Jones of Los Angeles. Two sisters; Mrs. J.F. Warren of Dublin, and Mrs. Charner Allen of Frederick, Oklahoma.
=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Edward Bacon Brannin, M.D. 1886-1955
Dr. Edward Bacon Brannin of Dallas, Texas, died in a local hospital on September 13, 1955. Dr. Brannin was born on September 19, 1886 in Cisco, Texas and was the son of Lewis Edward and Katie Bacon Brannin.
He graduated from Texas Christian University, then in Waco, in 1905, then spent two years in the old Fort Worth Medical College. He completed his medical education at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1909, and has practiced medicine in Dallas since that time.
He took postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, specializing in gynecology and endocrinology.
He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Dallas County Medical Society, and also was a member of the Dallas Southern Clinical Society and Phi Chi medical fraternity. Dr. Brannin's membership in other organizations included Phi Delta Theta, Rotary International, the Dallas Athletic Club and the Community Church.
During World War I, he was a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in Deming, New Mexico and Camp Fullerton, Kansas.
Miss Mary Fidelia Skiles and Dr. Brannin were married on July 3, 1911 in Sherman, Texas. Mrs. Brannin survives, as do two daughters; Mrs. Arch J. McNeill and Mrs. E. Martin Caldwell, both of Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Schneider of Washington D.C., and Mrs. D.D. Templeton of DeWitt, New York. He is also survived by four brothers, Dr. Dan Brannin and C.P. Brannin of Dallas, Louis D. Brannin of Ramona, Oklahoma and R.C. Brannin of Great Bend, Kansas.
+++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
He graduated from Texas Christian University, then in Waco, in 1905, then spent two years in the old Fort Worth Medical College. He completed his medical education at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1909, and has practiced medicine in Dallas since that time.
He took postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, specializing in gynecology and endocrinology.
He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Dallas County Medical Society, and also was a member of the Dallas Southern Clinical Society and Phi Chi medical fraternity. Dr. Brannin's membership in other organizations included Phi Delta Theta, Rotary International, the Dallas Athletic Club and the Community Church.
During World War I, he was a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in Deming, New Mexico and Camp Fullerton, Kansas.
Miss Mary Fidelia Skiles and Dr. Brannin were married on July 3, 1911 in Sherman, Texas. Mrs. Brannin survives, as do two daughters; Mrs. Arch J. McNeill and Mrs. E. Martin Caldwell, both of Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Schneider of Washington D.C., and Mrs. D.D. Templeton of DeWitt, New York. He is also survived by four brothers, Dr. Dan Brannin and C.P. Brannin of Dallas, Louis D. Brannin of Ramona, Oklahoma and R.C. Brannin of Great Bend, Kansas.
+++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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