Robert Irving McNeil, M.D. (1877-1955)

Dr. Robert Irving McNeil, who had practiced medicine in El Paso, Texas for 42 years, died at his home on August 10, 1955, of carcinoma of the lung.  He was born at Elm Hall Plantation in Napoleonville, Louisiana on January 24, 1877.  His parents were Edward Benton and Amanda Kittredge McNeil.

He attended Union University in Jackson, Tennessee and received his medical degree from George Washington University in Washington D.C. in 1903.  He did his postgraduate work at the New York Postgraduate School of Medicine in 1911.  He served an internship at Garfield Hospital in Washington. Dr. McNeil was a physician at the Mescalero Indian Reservation until 1907, when he moved to El Paso to begin his private practice.

In 1919, he entered the United States Public Health Service and became chief of an El Paso quarantine station in 1930.  He was given recognition for his part in bringing under control a smallpox epidemic which threatened the city in 1933, and he helped arrange temporary admission to this country for Mexican citizens who required medical attention in the El Paso hospitals.  He retired in 1949 and devoted his time to his home, travels and writing, and had articles published in medical and historical journals.

Dr. McNeil was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the El Paso County Medical Society, of which he had been a member continuously since 1908.  He had been an honorary member of the state organization since 1947.  He served as county health officer and school physician.  He was also president of the El Paso Archaeological Society, a life member of the Masonic Lodge, and deacon emeritus in the Baptist Church.

During the Spanish-American War, Dr. McNeil served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in Washington, D.C.  He married Miss Elizabeth Keeling on June 10, 1908 in Washington.  Mrs. McNeil survives, as do three children; Irving McNeil, Jr. of El Morro, New Mexico, Mrs. John A. Ferguson of El Paso, and Mrs. Robert E. Garren of Auburn, Alabama.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Arthur Ernest Moon, M.D. (1890-1955)

Dr. Arthur Ernest Moon, who spent his entire professional life in Temple, Texas, died at his home on July 27, 1955 of a heart attack.  He was born March 5, 1890 in Lineville, Alabama to Jacob Washington Moon and Mary Jane Strickland Moon.  He attended Howard College in Birmingham and then graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas in 1915.  He received his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1920 and became an intern at the Scott and White Memorial Hospitals, where he later became a resident doctor, then a permanent member of the hospital staff, specializing in internal medicine.  He had retired last April 1st.

Dr. Moon was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Bell County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1942.  He was also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Texas Club of Internists, the Southern Medical Association and Alpha Omega Alpha.  He was a senior consultant at the University of Texas Postgraduate School of Medicine in Temple, and was an instructor in the Scott and White School of Nursing from 1925-1935.  He was also a member of the Baptist Church.

Dr. Moon married Miss Flora Wells on June 15, 1920.  Their son, Dr. Arthur E. Moon, Jr., died in an automobile accident in January 1952.  Survivors include Mrs. Moon, two brothers, Dr. A.J. Moon of Liberty, Missouri and David Moon of Fort Worth; four sisters, Mrs. Nora Phillips of Coronado, California, Mrs. P.E. Reeves of Iago, Mrs. J.A. McIver of Fort Worth, and Mrs. James Pritchett of Beaumont; and three grandchildren.

+++ +++ +++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Leo Arthur Nelson, M.D. (1889-1955)

Dr. Leo Arthur Nelson of Dallas died in a local hospital on August 18, 1955 after a long illness.  He retired from active practice in 1952.  He was born February 27, 1889 in Chariton, Iowa to Mr. and Mrs. Will Nelson.  He received his preliminary education in the public schools and at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, which he attended for three years.  He graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1916.  Dr. Nelson served his internship and residency at the University Hospital in Iowa City.

In 1918, he served with the Army Medical Corps as a first lieutenant at the base hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana.  In 1919, he moved to Texas and began his practice in Sherman.  He moved to Dallas in 1924, where he helped to found the Dallas Medical and Surgical Clinic.  He specialized in diseases of the ear, nose and throat.

Dr. Nelson was a member of the American Medical Association, and in 1953 was elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association through the Dallas County Medical Society, of which two groups he had been a member since shortly after coming to Texas.  He was also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and the Texas Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.

Dr. Nelson was a Knight Templar and a member of the Shrine and the Baptist Church.  He married Miss Cora Kathryn Beeler in Denison, Iowa on August 29, 1917.  Survivors include Mrs. Nelson, one daughter, Mrs. Robert Karper of Dallas, one brother, H.R. Nelson of Corvallis, Oregon, and two grandchildren.

++ ++ ++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Loyal Hamilton Moore, M.D. (1883-1955)

Dr. Loyal Hamilton Moore died in a local hospital in McAllen, Texas on July 8, 1955, of coronary thrombosis.  He was the son of James G. and Samantha Moore, born on October 25, 1883 in Venice, Pennsylvania.  He attended Jefferson Academy in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and Westminster College in New Wilmington.  Then he entered the University of Pittsburgh and completed his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland in 1910.  He practiced for 25 years in Canonsburg and Houston, Pennsylvania before coming to Texas and beginning his practice in McAllen.  He specialized in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association and the Hidalgo-Starr Counties Medical Society, of which he was president in 1943.  He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Shrine and the Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Moore married Miss Blanche Peacock on October 26, 1911 in Houston, Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Moore, two children and five grandchildren survive.  His sons are R. Glen Moore of Elsa and William Loyal Moore of McAllen.

++ ++ ++ published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Phillip Lee Vardy, M.D. (1871-1955)

Dr. Phillip Lee Vardy of Estelline, Texas died on August 30, 1955 in a Childress hospital of a coronary thrombosis.  He was the son of H.C. and Mary Brain Vardy, born on January 8, 1871 near Weatherford, Texas.  He attended public schools in Chico, then worked for several years on a ranch in Hall County.  He entered Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, and graduated from there in 1897, after which he began his practice in Estelline.  He was in active practice there for 58 years, taking time out in 1903 and 1910 to do postgraduate work in St. Louis, Missouri.

Elected to honorary membership in the Texas Medical Association in 1947, Dr. Vardy had been a member of the Armstrong-Donley-Childress-Collingsworth-Hall Counties Medical Society since 1908, and was president of the society in 1942.  He was also a member of the American Medical Association and was the physician for the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad for many years.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Order of the Eastern Star in Estelline, and of the Memphis Chapter and Council and Commandery.  He was also a member of the Lions Club and the Estelline Methodist Church, for which he was secretary and treasurer for more than 40 years.

Dr. Vardy married Miss Mary Eddins of Chico on October 11, 1899.  Mrs. Vardy survives, as do four children: Phillip L. Vardy, Jr. of Slaton, James DeWitt Vardy of Turkey, Mrs. W.C. Gilmore of Slaton, and Mrs. Morris Currin of Fort Worth.  He also leaves four grandchildren.  A third son, Robert Winston Vardy, preceded his father in death.

== == == published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, October 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.