Dr. Marvin Cartmell Overton, active practitioner in Lubbock for 54 years and father of Dr. M.C. Overton Jr., Pampa surgeon, and Philip R. Overton, Austin attorney and general counsel for the Texas Medical Association, died at his home on September 1, 1955 of panmyelosis with fibrosis.
The son of the Rev. George Buck Overton and Susan Louisa Lawson Overton, he was born on June 13, 1878 in Morganfield, Kentucky. He grew up in Louisville where he worked on a newspaper and with the telephone company before deciding to study medicine. His medical degree was obtained from the University of Louisville in 1901.
Opening his general practice in Lubbock after hearing a classmate tell of the scarcity of physicians in West Texas, Dr. Overton ministered to a large area of the state, operating his own drug store for a time and performing the first appendectomy in the city. In more recent years Dr. Overton had specialized in pediatrics, being author of a book entitled "Your Baby and Child". He was one of the owners of Krueger, Hutchinson and Overton Clinic, which was transferred to Methodist ownership last year, and had retired in June because of ill health.
A member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Lubbock-Crosby Counties Medical Society throughout his career, he was named to honorary membership in the state organization in 1950. He was a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics.
Dr. Overton aided in development of the first hospital in Lubbock, served as president of the First National Bank there for one year, was an alderman during the construction of the first sewer system, and a member of the school board when the first brick building, old Central Ward School, was erected. He was on the official board of the First Methodist Church throughout his residence in Lubbock. He and Mrs. Overton paid for the construction and furnishing of the Methodist Student Center; he established a loan fund at McMurry College in Abilene which has assisted more than 200 students; and he contributed to other Methodist institutions. For years he gave annual $200 scholarships to the Texas Technological College athletic department for the athlete exercising the greatest influence toward good morale of the football team. He also gave scholarships in the speech department of Texas Tech. He was a long-time member of the Rotary Club loan fund committee and held honorary membership in the club after many years of perfect attendance as a regular member. He also belonged to the Masonic Lodge, Commandery, and Shrine.
Evidence of Dr. Overton's civic activities in Lubbock are the following which bear his name: M.C. Overton Elementary School, Overton Tower of the First Methodist Church, Overton Addition (the first subdivision of Lubbock and developed by Dr. Overton), and the Overton Methodist Church (the site of which was donated by the doctor).
Dr. Overton married Miss Georgia Robertson of Louisville in 1902. Sons Marvin, Philip, Robert and George Buck were born to this union. Mrs. Overton died in 1916 and George Buck Overton in 1923. Dr. Overton married Miss Nannie M. Jennings of Lubbock in 1918, and two daughters were born to them. Surviving are his wife, three sons, two daughters, three sisters and twelve grandchildren, as follows: sons, Dr. Overton, Jr., Philip R. Overton and Robert Overton of Brownsville; daughters, Mrs. William T. West and Mrs. Watson Carlock, both of Lubbock; sisters, Mrs. Edward Hill, Miss Mary B. Overton and Miss Sue L. Overton, all of Dallas. One grandson, Dr. Philip Marvin Overton received his degree in medicine in June and is interning at Parkland Hospital in Dallas; two other grandsons are taking premed courses in college.
Family and friends have established the Overton Memorial Fund for Needy Children, which will be a trust administered by trustees of the Methodist Hospital of Lubbock.
== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
George Perry Rains, M.D. (1872-1955)
Dr. George Perry Rains of Marshall, Texas died at his home on September 19, 1955, of coronary thrombosis. He was born on September 18, 1872 in Marshall, the son of Major Mercer Rains and Nancy Texas Arnett Rains. His early education was obtained in a private school in Marshall, and he received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas in 1893.
For his medical training, he chose the University of Texas Medical Branch, from which he graduated in 1896. He obtained another medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania the following year. After serving his internship in the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Dr. Rains served as house physician at the Texas and Pacific Hospital in Marshall for a short time, then began his private practice there. He refreshed his medical knowledge periodically by taking courses at the New York Postgraduate Medical School.
Dr. Rains was elected an honorary member of the Texas Medical Association in 1954, after having been a member through the Harrison County Medical Society throughout his career. He was president of the county society in 1937. He was also a member of the Reserve Officers' Association, the Texas State Armory Board, the Military Surgeons Association, Phi Delta Theta social fraternity, the Masonic Lodge and the Elks.
Dr. Rains was a member of the board of directors of the Marshall National Bank, the Kahn Memorial Hospital, the Harrison County Red Cross and the Marshall and Sabine Pass Railroad. He served as vice-president of the hospital staff and was a trustee of the College of Marshall and its successor, East Texas Baptist College. He was treasurer of the local USO during World War II, and was city commissioner at one time. He was chairman of the board and president of the Rains and Talley Funeral Home and the Rains Insurance Company. He served as a deacon and then an honorary deacon in the First Baptist Church, which named its new education building, the Rains Children's Building, in his honor.
Dr. Rains' military career began in 1887, when he enlisted in the Army at the age of 15, and covered a period of 49 years. He rose from the rank of private to major general and retired in 1936 with the rank of brevet lieutenant. During World War I, he was a colonel in the Third Texas Infantry, and commanding officer successively of the Thirty-Sixth Military Police and Trains, the Sixty-First Pioneer Infantry, and of Camp Sheridan in Alabama. After World War I, he commanded the One Hundred and Forty-Fourth Infantry, the Seventy-Second Infantry Brigade and the Thirty-Sixth Division. He was honorary life president of the Thirty-Sixth Division Association and was the first commander of the Smiley-Summers Legion Post in Marshall.
Dr. Rains married Miss Norma Pitts in Marshall on April 26, 1899. They had no children. Mrs. Rains died on February 16, 1953. Survivors are three nephews and two nieces.
== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine in December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
For his medical training, he chose the University of Texas Medical Branch, from which he graduated in 1896. He obtained another medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania the following year. After serving his internship in the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Dr. Rains served as house physician at the Texas and Pacific Hospital in Marshall for a short time, then began his private practice there. He refreshed his medical knowledge periodically by taking courses at the New York Postgraduate Medical School.
Dr. Rains was elected an honorary member of the Texas Medical Association in 1954, after having been a member through the Harrison County Medical Society throughout his career. He was president of the county society in 1937. He was also a member of the Reserve Officers' Association, the Texas State Armory Board, the Military Surgeons Association, Phi Delta Theta social fraternity, the Masonic Lodge and the Elks.
Dr. Rains was a member of the board of directors of the Marshall National Bank, the Kahn Memorial Hospital, the Harrison County Red Cross and the Marshall and Sabine Pass Railroad. He served as vice-president of the hospital staff and was a trustee of the College of Marshall and its successor, East Texas Baptist College. He was treasurer of the local USO during World War II, and was city commissioner at one time. He was chairman of the board and president of the Rains and Talley Funeral Home and the Rains Insurance Company. He served as a deacon and then an honorary deacon in the First Baptist Church, which named its new education building, the Rains Children's Building, in his honor.
Dr. Rains' military career began in 1887, when he enlisted in the Army at the age of 15, and covered a period of 49 years. He rose from the rank of private to major general and retired in 1936 with the rank of brevet lieutenant. During World War I, he was a colonel in the Third Texas Infantry, and commanding officer successively of the Thirty-Sixth Military Police and Trains, the Sixty-First Pioneer Infantry, and of Camp Sheridan in Alabama. After World War I, he commanded the One Hundred and Forty-Fourth Infantry, the Seventy-Second Infantry Brigade and the Thirty-Sixth Division. He was honorary life president of the Thirty-Sixth Division Association and was the first commander of the Smiley-Summers Legion Post in Marshall.
Dr. Rains married Miss Norma Pitts in Marshall on April 26, 1899. They had no children. Mrs. Rains died on February 16, 1953. Survivors are three nephews and two nieces.
== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine in December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Talmage Oliver Woolley, M.D. (1885-1955)
Dr. Talmage Oliver Woolley of Orange, Texas died September 21, 1955 of acute myocardial infarction. The attack occurred while he was undergoing a routine physical examination in a local hospital. He was born January 28, 1885 in Overton, the son of James Hershal and Julia Cobb Woolley.
After attending public schools in Overton, he entered Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville. He received his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, graduating in 1911. In 1926 he earned a degree in health education from Columbia University in New York, and he did other postgraduate work in 1930 at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital.
Dr. Woolley began his medical practice in Palestine, where he was assistant house surgeon at the International and Great Northern Railway Employees Hospital. He practiced briefly in both Arp and Germantown. During World War I he served with the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, and at Fort Bliss. He was discharged as a captain in 1917.
Moving to Houston to continue his practice in 1921, Dr. Woolley became a staff member of the Baptist Hospital and was a professor of hygiene in the Houston public schools. Ten years later, he moved to Brenham and was associated with the St. Francis Hospital. Continuing his practice in Orange in 1941, Dr. Woolley was a staff member of the Orange City Hospital.
He had been a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations almost continuously throughout his career through the Anderson, Smith, Victoria-Calhoun-Goliad, Harris, Washington and Orange Counties Medical Societies. He was secretary of the Washington County Society in 1933 and 1934, and was elected president in 1938. He served as president of the Orange County Society from 1943-1945 and again in 1947. He was also a member of the Tenth District Medical Society. Dr. Woolley was given an award of appreciation for his efforts in planning and building the Orange County Memorial Hospital in 1954.
He was a steward and trustee of the First Methodist Church, a member of Rotary International, and a 32nd degree Mason and member of the Shrine. Dr. Woolley married Miss Livy Mae Cunningham in Tyler on August 11, 1912. Mrs. Woolley survives, as do three children: Mrs. C.I. Whitehead of Houston, John P. Woolley of Baltimore, Maryland, and Mrs. O.H. Landua of Annapolis, Maryland. He also leaves three sisters: Mrs. S.W. Adams of Austin, Mrs. S.M. Swindall of Brookfield, Illinois, and Mrs. A.F. Allen of Glenwood Spring, Colorado. One brother, J.P. Woolley of Shreveport, Louisiana, and thirteen grandchildren also survive.
After attending public schools in Overton, he entered Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville. He received his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, graduating in 1911. In 1926 he earned a degree in health education from Columbia University in New York, and he did other postgraduate work in 1930 at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital.
Dr. Woolley began his medical practice in Palestine, where he was assistant house surgeon at the International and Great Northern Railway Employees Hospital. He practiced briefly in both Arp and Germantown. During World War I he served with the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, and at Fort Bliss. He was discharged as a captain in 1917.
Moving to Houston to continue his practice in 1921, Dr. Woolley became a staff member of the Baptist Hospital and was a professor of hygiene in the Houston public schools. Ten years later, he moved to Brenham and was associated with the St. Francis Hospital. Continuing his practice in Orange in 1941, Dr. Woolley was a staff member of the Orange City Hospital.
He had been a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations almost continuously throughout his career through the Anderson, Smith, Victoria-Calhoun-Goliad, Harris, Washington and Orange Counties Medical Societies. He was secretary of the Washington County Society in 1933 and 1934, and was elected president in 1938. He served as president of the Orange County Society from 1943-1945 and again in 1947. He was also a member of the Tenth District Medical Society. Dr. Woolley was given an award of appreciation for his efforts in planning and building the Orange County Memorial Hospital in 1954.
He was a steward and trustee of the First Methodist Church, a member of Rotary International, and a 32nd degree Mason and member of the Shrine. Dr. Woolley married Miss Livy Mae Cunningham in Tyler on August 11, 1912. Mrs. Woolley survives, as do three children: Mrs. C.I. Whitehead of Houston, John P. Woolley of Baltimore, Maryland, and Mrs. O.H. Landua of Annapolis, Maryland. He also leaves three sisters: Mrs. S.W. Adams of Austin, Mrs. S.M. Swindall of Brookfield, Illinois, and Mrs. A.F. Allen of Glenwood Spring, Colorado. One brother, J.P. Woolley of Shreveport, Louisiana, and thirteen grandchildren also survive.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Spencer Allen Collom, Jr., M.D. (1904-1955)
Dr. Spencer Allen Collom, Jr. died at his home in Texarkana on October 10, 1955. He was born in Ratcliff, Texas on February 4, 1904, the son of Dr. Spencer A. Collom and Eugenie (Read) Collom. After graduating from Texarkana High School, he entered Washington University in St. Louis in 1921.
In 1925, he received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas, then graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville in 1929. His internship was in the Fort Sam Houston Station Hospital in San Antonio. With the exception of three years of military service during World War II, Dr. Collom practiced in Texarkana throughout his professional career, where he was associated with the Collom-Carney Clinic.
During the war, he was chief of orthopedic services at the Three Hundredth General Hospital in Italy. He earned the Bronze Star and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps.
Dr. Collom was a staff member of the Kansas City Southern and St. Louis Southwestern Railroads hospitals. He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Bowie County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1941. He was also a member of the Tri-State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association and the American Fracture Society. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the president of the Texarkana Hospital's board of directors.
He was also president of the Temple Memorial Home for Crippled Children, and was honorary president at the time of his death. He was president of the Texarkana chapter of Rotary International, and the Texarkana Knife and Fork Club, and was a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. He was a member of the Congregational Church.
Dr. Collom married Miss Mary Maddox in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 12, 1929. Mrs. Collom survives, as do one daughter, Mrs. Samuel A. Buchanan, Jr. of Texarkana; his mother, Mrs. Spencer A. Collom of Texarkana; and two sisters, Mrs. G.D. Gantt of Houston and Mrs. J.W. Hill of Dallas.
== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
In 1925, he received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas, then graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville in 1929. His internship was in the Fort Sam Houston Station Hospital in San Antonio. With the exception of three years of military service during World War II, Dr. Collom practiced in Texarkana throughout his professional career, where he was associated with the Collom-Carney Clinic.
During the war, he was chief of orthopedic services at the Three Hundredth General Hospital in Italy. He earned the Bronze Star and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps.
Dr. Collom was a staff member of the Kansas City Southern and St. Louis Southwestern Railroads hospitals. He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Bowie County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1941. He was also a member of the Tri-State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association and the American Fracture Society. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the president of the Texarkana Hospital's board of directors.
He was also president of the Temple Memorial Home for Crippled Children, and was honorary president at the time of his death. He was president of the Texarkana chapter of Rotary International, and the Texarkana Knife and Fork Club, and was a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. He was a member of the Congregational Church.
Dr. Collom married Miss Mary Maddox in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 12, 1929. Mrs. Collom survives, as do one daughter, Mrs. Samuel A. Buchanan, Jr. of Texarkana; his mother, Mrs. Spencer A. Collom of Texarkana; and two sisters, Mrs. G.D. Gantt of Houston and Mrs. J.W. Hill of Dallas.
== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
Monday, October 24, 2011
David E. Sauer, M.D. (1909-1955)
Dr. David E. Sauer of Lubbock, Texas died in a Denver hospital on October 9, 1955 from coronary insufficiency. He was born October 21, 1909 in Madisonville, Ohio and received his bachelor of arts degree from the Ohio Western University in Delaware, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati Medical College in 1936 after which he completed his internship and surgical residency in the Youngstown City Hospital.
From 1939 until 1945 Dr. Sauer was chief of the surgical staff at the Kercheval Memorial Clinic in Kingwood, West Virginia. He came to Texas in 1946 and practiced briefly in Raymondville and Hale Center before moving to Kermit in 1947. In 1954, he moved to Lubbock, where he was on the staff of the Methodist Hospital, the West Texas Hospital, and St. Mary's Hospital at the time of his death.
Dr. Sauer was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations successively through the county medical societies of Cameron-Willacy, Reeves-Ward-Winkler-Loving-Culberson-Hudspeth, where he was president in 1951, and Lubbock-Crosby counties. He was also a member of the American Academy of General Practice, the Presbyterian church, and Rotary International.
Dr. Sauer married Miss Svea Virginia Burman in Raymondville, Texas, in 1947. He is survived by his wife, one sister, Mrs. Ralph Koehl of Columbus, Ohio; and two brothers, W. Denslow Sauer and George D. Sauer, both of Marietta, Ohio.
++ ++ ++ Published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
From 1939 until 1945 Dr. Sauer was chief of the surgical staff at the Kercheval Memorial Clinic in Kingwood, West Virginia. He came to Texas in 1946 and practiced briefly in Raymondville and Hale Center before moving to Kermit in 1947. In 1954, he moved to Lubbock, where he was on the staff of the Methodist Hospital, the West Texas Hospital, and St. Mary's Hospital at the time of his death.
Dr. Sauer was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations successively through the county medical societies of Cameron-Willacy, Reeves-Ward-Winkler-Loving-Culberson-Hudspeth, where he was president in 1951, and Lubbock-Crosby counties. He was also a member of the American Academy of General Practice, the Presbyterian church, and Rotary International.
Dr. Sauer married Miss Svea Virginia Burman in Raymondville, Texas, in 1947. He is survived by his wife, one sister, Mrs. Ralph Koehl of Columbus, Ohio; and two brothers, W. Denslow Sauer and George D. Sauer, both of Marietta, Ohio.
++ ++ ++ Published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Lilburn Echols Standifer, M.D. (1895-1955)
Dr. Lilburn Echols Standifer of Lamesa, Texas, died September 15, 1955 at a hospital in Big Spring. He had been in ill health since 1951, when he suffered a heart attack.
Dr. Standifer was born on June 4, 1895 in Tulia, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Standifer. He attended public schools in Spur and did his premed work at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in College Station. He then attended the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, but received his degree in 1925 from the Tulane University School of Medicine.
He began his practice in Junction, and practiced in Lamesa, Turkey, Oklahoma City, Vernon, Spur and Austin. During World War II, he served as a major in the Army Medical Corps and participated in the African Campaign. In 1946 he returned to Lamesa and practiced there until his retirement in 1951.
He was a member of the Texas Medical Association during most of his professional career, through the Dawson-Lynn-Gaines, Menard-Kimble, McCulloch, Childress-Collingsworth-Donley-Hall, Wilbarger, or Dawson-Lynn-Terry-Gaines-Yoakum Counties Medical Societies. He was president of the latter group in 1947 and had previously served as its secretary. He was also a member of the American Medical Association and Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity. He was a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of Rotary International, the Masonic Order including the Shrine, and the Methodist Church.
Dr. Standifer was married April 25, 1927 in El Paso, to Miss Edith Steele. Survivors are Mrs. Standifer and one daughter, Mrs. Marshall A. Pharr. Mrs. Pharr lives in Port Lyantey, French Morocco, where her husband is in military service. Dr. Standifer's sister Mrs. John L. Sallee of Lubbock, also survives.
--- --- --- published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
Dr. Standifer was born on June 4, 1895 in Tulia, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Standifer. He attended public schools in Spur and did his premed work at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in College Station. He then attended the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, but received his degree in 1925 from the Tulane University School of Medicine.
He began his practice in Junction, and practiced in Lamesa, Turkey, Oklahoma City, Vernon, Spur and Austin. During World War II, he served as a major in the Army Medical Corps and participated in the African Campaign. In 1946 he returned to Lamesa and practiced there until his retirement in 1951.
He was a member of the Texas Medical Association during most of his professional career, through the Dawson-Lynn-Gaines, Menard-Kimble, McCulloch, Childress-Collingsworth-Donley-Hall, Wilbarger, or Dawson-Lynn-Terry-Gaines-Yoakum Counties Medical Societies. He was president of the latter group in 1947 and had previously served as its secretary. He was also a member of the American Medical Association and Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity. He was a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of Rotary International, the Masonic Order including the Shrine, and the Methodist Church.
Dr. Standifer was married April 25, 1927 in El Paso, to Miss Edith Steele. Survivors are Mrs. Standifer and one daughter, Mrs. Marshall A. Pharr. Mrs. Pharr lives in Port Lyantey, French Morocco, where her husband is in military service. Dr. Standifer's sister Mrs. John L. Sallee of Lubbock, also survives.
--- --- --- published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, December 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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