Jennie Biggers Nettle (1872-1954)

Mrs. Jennie Biggers Nettles, age 82, of Hampton, Arkansas, widow of John M. Nettles, died Thursday September 23, 1954 at the Hampton Clinic.  She was a daughter of Alexander J. Biggers and Harriet J. Means Biggers, and a member of the Church of Christ. 

Mrs. Nettles is survived by two sons, John Nettles and Ray Nettles, both of Hampton; three daughters, Mrs. L.B. Dilworth, Mrs. C.L. Daniel and Miss Jo Nettles.  She also leaves two brothers, Bob Means Biggers and A.J. Biggers, and one sister, Mrs. J.C. Strickland.  Twelve grandchildren also survive.

Funeral services will be held at the Church of Christ in Hampton at 3:30pm Friday.  Burial will be in Means Cemetery by Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce.  Bro. Earl Richardson of Shreveport, Louisiana will conduct the services.

=== based on an obituary in the Camden News, 23 Feb 1954.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding Mrs. Nettles or her family.

Paul Marshall (1801-1899)

One of the oldest citizens of Carroll County, Paul Marshall, departed this life April 20, 1899, at the residence of his son-in-law, Aaron A. Davis, in Polo Township.  The deceased was one of twin brothers born June 1, 1801, and would have been 99 years old if he had reached his next birthday.  The other brother, Saul Marshall, was still living at Kadesh, Virginia, when last heard from the second day of last March.

Paul Marshall had raised a large family, sixteen children in all, and of these five are still living, the youngest one being now fifty years of age.  During his long residence in this county he had made many friends.

== published in the Arkansas Gazette, April 1899.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Elizabeth Bacchus Cranford (1834-1935)

Mrs. Elizabeth Bacchus Cranford, Ouachita County's oldest white woman, who recently celebrated her 101st birthday, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. C.D. Tutt, eight miles south of Camden on the Stephens Highway.  Her death, on Sunday, October 3rd, 1935, was sudden, as the former schoolteacher was in good health on Saturday.

She was born in Henry County, near Paris, Tennessee, on April 25, 1834.  She came with her parents to Ouachita County in 1840 and taught school continuously from 1859 to 1870.  She later taught at intervals for many years.  On April 25, 1934, Mrs. Cranford celebrated her 100th birthday with a party at her home and more than fifty of her friends and neighbors and many of her former students honored her that day. She received a message of congratulations from President Roosevelt.

Her father was Judge Asa W. Bacchus, Ouachita County's first county judge after Arkansas was admitted as a state.  Although she was a busy teacher during the Civil War, she found time to do much for Confederate soldiers.  Four of her brothers fought for the South, and three of them were killed.  She was married in 1870 to the Rev. H.G. Cranford, a minister of the Christian Church.  He also served in the Confederate Army.  He died at Stephens on December 11, 1911.

She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. G.T. Criner of Little Rock, and Mrs. Lula Brown, one sister, Mrs. Susan Criner of Stephens; ten grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.  Funeral services were held at Whitefield Church on Monday.  Proctor Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

== published in the Camden News, 4 Oct 1935, Camden, Arkansas.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

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Charles A. Westfall (1874-1951)

Charles A. Westfall, 77, retired Baptist minister of Dierks, Arkansas, died in a Little Rock hospital on Friday following a long illness.  He was born March 4, 1874 in Davidson County, North Carolina to Andrew H. Westfall and Elizabeth Cornish Westfall.  He had been pastor for churches in Howard, Hempstead, Pike and Sevier counties for the last 47 years.  He had been hospitalized for the last three months.

Survivors include his wife, Mattie Keeling Westfall, two sons, O'Neal Westfall, now in the Army, and Charles S. Westfall of Hot Springs, two daughters, Myrtle Westfall of Nashville Tennessee, and Mrs. Jewel (Herbert) Cates of Texarkana; two brothers, two sisters, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. 

Services will be conducted at 2:30pm today in the First Baptist Church by the Rev. W.E. Perry and burial will be in Ozan Cemetery in Bingen.

=== published in the Arkansas Democrat, 18 March 1951.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of Rev. Westfall.

Thomas Edward Barron (1872-1951)

Thomas Edward Barron, 79, of 1921 North Spruce St. in Little Rock, died at his residence on March 17, 1951.  He was born on May 14, 1872 in South Carolina to James S. and Alice Legg Barron.  He retired in 1936 from Little Rock Laundry after fifty years of employment there.  He was a member of the First Methodist Church and an honorary member of its Board of Stewards.

Mr. Barron is survived by three daughters; Mrs. William Bohle, Mrs. Harvey (Helen) Brown, and Miss Lalla Lee Barron, all of Little Rock.  Also four sons; Robert A. Barron and Dr. Edwin N. Barron of Little Rock, Rev. William W. Barron of Carthage, Arkansas and James O. Barron of Tulsa.

Also surviving are two brothers and four sisters; Claude Barron and J.W. Barron, Mrs. Harry Hermann, Mrs. Paul C. (Annie) Lang, Mrs. Gertrude Buzbee and Mrs. Lee (Sallye) Reinhardt, all of Little Rock.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Griffin-Leggett.

== obituary published in the Arkansas Democrat, 18 March 18, 1951.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of the deceased. 

Louisa Malnati (1865-1950)

Mrs. Louisa Malnati, 85, of 25 South Federal Boulevard in Denver, widow of stonecutter Henry Malnati, who helped build the state capitol and other public buildings here, died in the General Rose Memorial Hospital at 2am Monday after an eight-week illness.

She was born in Milan, Italy, on September 29, 1865, and came to Denver 62 years ago with her husband, who was brought here to assist in carving blocks of granite which went into the statehouse.  For many years she ran a boardinghouse in a rambling frame structure near the capitol building.

Her husband was employed in building the Denver Mint and other structural work.  He died fifteen years ago.  Mrs. Malnati was active in affairs of the Presentation Catholic Church and until her death was a devout communicant. 

She is survived by four daughters; Mrs. Kate Ferretti, prominent milliner of 4235 Tejon Street, Mrs. Charles Boggs of 3877 Newton Street, Mrs. Eda Eisch of 25 South Federal Boulevard, and Mrs. Josephine Ward of 1360 Otis Street.  She is also survived by four sons; Art of 376 Dahlia Street, Edward of 1317 South Garfield Street, Charles C. of 4609 Alcott Street, and Lewis of Chicago, Illinois.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Boulevard mortuary.

== published in an unidentified and undated newspaper.  Clipping discovered and transcribed by researcher who has no further knowledge of this family. 

John S. Reynolds, D.D.S. (1847-1887)

Dr. J.S. Reynolds died in Monroe, (Green County) Wisconsin on September 11, 1887.  He was a native of Pennsylvania who arrived in our fair state before the age of thirty.  He was well-known throughout the West as an energetic and progressive dentist.  He was an active and useful member of the Wisconsin State Dental Society, and often materially contributed to the proceedings of other similar organizations.  In his own community he was beloved and respected.  He is survived by his wife Katie and son Frank.

=== based on an obituary published in Volume 1 of the Dental Review, October 1887.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of Dr. Reynolds.

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David W. Perkins, M.D. (1816-1884)

Dr. David W. Perkins died at Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 18, 1884, of cancer of the stomach at the age of 68 years.  He will be best remembered among the dental profession as the inventor of the Perkins Chair, which form many years was the best dental chair known.  He began life as a civil engineer, and was employed by the State of New York for some three years and engaged in the construction of the Black River Canal.  He afterwards studied medicine, taking the degree of M.D. at the Castleton Medical College of Castleton, Vermont.  His studies in dentistry were pursued under the preceptorship of the late Dr. Foster of Utica, NY and in the year 1843 he removed to Milwaukee, where he resided during the remainder of his life.

Dr. Perkins was an excellent and conscientious operator, a man just in all in all his dealings, enjoying a high reputation among all his acquaintances, and his loss will be deeply felt among all of them. 

== Published in the Dental Advertiser, Volume 15, 1884.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of Dr. Perkins.

Edwin Waldamar Edahl, M.D. (1893-1955)

Dr. Edwin Waldamar Edahl died on June 8, 1955 in El Paso, Texas, of an acute myocardial infarction.  He was a resident of Van Horn.  He was born February 14, 1893 in Chicago, Illinois to O.J. and Marta Edahl.  He attended the Crane Technical High School in Chicago and the University of Illinois.  He received his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Illinois Medical School on April 1, 1930.  After an internship at the Wesley Memorial Hospital in Chicago, he began his practice in that city. 

In 1941, Dr. Edahl moved to New Mexico, where he was associated with the New Mexico Department of Health.  From 1943-1946 he served as a major in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in England, France and Belgium.  He had been a bacteriologist during World War I.  He then spent one year in practice at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Amarillo, Texas.  Moving to Van Horn in 1947, he remained there and was in active practice at the time of his death. 

A member of the El Paso County Medical Society, he was also a member of the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and Alpha Omega Alpha medical fraternity.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Shrine, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Nu Sigma Nu fraternity, and the Lutheran Church.  He also was past alderman of the city of Van Horn and a past president of Rotary International.  For many years Dr. Edahl had studied the history of healing and he left many notes on his research.

Miss Olive Gethin-Davies and the doctor were married in 1946.  Mrs. Edahl and two children, Hannah Marta and Anna Bertina, survive, as does his father, O.J. Edahl of Voss, Norway.  A son, Edwin Waldamar Edahl, Jr. preceded his father in death.

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

William Lawson Allen, M.D. (1880-1955)

Dr. William Lawson Allen died on June 9, 1955, in Rising Star, Texas, of coronary thrombosis.  He had been a practicing physician in Rising Star for 25 years, and was in the process of retiring and moving to Sweetwater at the time of his death.

The son of Celia Elizabeth and Samuel Bevel Allen, he was born September 19, 1880, at May, in Brown County, Texas.  He attended Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in College Station, and completed his medical education at the Texas Christian University Medical School in Fort Worth in 1915.  After practicing three years in Ranger, Dr. Allen moved to Rotan, where he continued his practice from 1918-1938.  From there he went to Brownwood, where he remained until 1942, when he began his practice in Rising Star.  He was city health officer for several years, and was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations consecutively through the Eastland, Fisher-Stonewall, Nolan-Fisher-Mitchell, and Brown-Comanche-Mills-San Saba Counties Medical Societies.

Dr. Allen was a past president of the Fisher-Stonewall Counties Society, and a member of Phi Chi medical fraternity.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Delta Chi social fraternity.  He owned several pecan orchards and was a member of the Pecan Growers Association.  He married Miss Lydia Evatt on June 10, 1910, at May.  Mrs. Allen survives, as do two children, Tyrus Allen and Mrs. Jimmy Maddox of Sweetwater.  He is also survived by three brothers; Dr. H.B. Allen of Brownwood, E. Otis Allen of Norten, and O.C. Allen of Sydney, and two sisters; Mrs. Maggie Wagnon of Temple and Mrs. V. Earl Earp of Monahans.

=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding the family or Dr. Allen's career.

Jesse Mark Hill, M.D. (1880-1955)

Dr. Jesse Mark Hill, who had practiced medicine in Crowell, Texas, for fifty years, died on April 23, 1955 after an automobile accident near his home.  He was born on April 13, 1880 in Calhoun County, Georgia to Horace Hill and Nancy Fite Hill.  He moved with his parents to Texas, where he attended public schools in Crowell.  He attended the University of Tennessee in Nashville, and then completed his medical education at the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons (now known as Emory University School of Medicine) in 1902.  Dr. Hill practiced briefly in New York, San Francisco and Chicago before settling in Crowell.  The past few years he had devoted primarily to his ranch interests.

Dr. Hill was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Hardeman-Cottle-Foard-Motley Counties Medical Society, and of the Third District Medical Society.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and was president of the local school board for many years. 

In 1904 he was married to Miss Edna M. Thacker of Crowell.  Mrs. Hill survives, as do three children; J.M. Hill Jr. and Mrs. Helen Norman, both of Crowell, and Mrs. Frances McCombs of Las Cruces, New Mexico.  Other survivors include a half sister, Mrs. Mable Burns of California, and three half-brothers, Fite Crowell and Grover Crowell, both of Crowell, and Cliff Crowell of California.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or Dr. Hill's career.

George W. Southers (1866-1890)

George W. Southers, a young man who was badly injured yesterday in a wreck three miles east of Santo, Texas, (Palo Pinto County) died January 28th, 1890 in Weatherford.  He had been taken there for medical attention and his leg was amputated. 

Mr. Southers was scheduled to have been married to Miss May Emmitt of Bloomington, Illinois and had made arrangements for a home in Fort Worth.  After he was hurt he told his conductor, Mr. Smith, to write and tell Miss Emmitt he was badly hurt and could not recover, and that he was over with all his trials and troubles in this world.

He was a man of about 24 years of age, a sober and industrious young person, and his untimely death is deeply deplored by all who knew him.  He will be buried at Gouldsboro, Louisiana, where his parents reside.

= = based on an obituary in the Galveston Daily News, 30 Jan 1890.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Walter Bassel Jackson, M.D. (1879-1955)

Dr. Walter Bassel Jackson of Waxahachie, Texas, died at his home on June 29th, 1955 of a kidney ailment.  He was born February 5th, 1879 in Ozro, Texas, to John and Susan Jackson.  After receiving his early education in Maypearl, he attended Northern Indiana Normal School and was a graduate in pharmacy from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana in 1906.  He took his medical training at the University of the South in Nashville, Tennessee, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dallas, from which he received his doctor of medicine degree in 1907.

After practicing briefly in Alvarado, Texas, Dr. Jackson settled in Waxahachie, where he practiced from 1915 until his death.  He was past president of the Ellis County Medical Society, and was a member of the Texas Medical Association and the American Medical Association.  He served as city health officer in both Alvarado and Waxahachie and as a medical examiner during both World Wars.  He was a member of the Christian Church, the Odd Fellows Lodge and the Knights of Pythias.

Dr. Jackson and Miss Alice Mansfield were married on September 21, 1900 in Tullahoma, Tennessee.  Survivors include Mrs. Jackson, one daughter, Mrs. A.W. Simpson of Dallas; three sons, Buford Jackson, Hayden Jackson and Dick Jackson, all of Waxahachie; and two brothers, Calvin Jackson and Jack Jackson, both of Maypearl.

= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the doctor's career. 

Charles Edward Davis, M.D. (1926-1955)

Dr. Charles Edward Davis, anesthesiologist, died at his home in Austin, Texas, on his twenty-ninth birthday, June 4, 1955, of chronic glomerulonephritis.  He was the son of Charles P. and Nell May Davis, and was born on June 4, 1926 in Magnet, Nebraska.  He attended high school in North Platte, and when he was thirteen he began working after school in the local hospital.  He spent one year at the University of Nebraska, then went to the University of Idaho at Pocatello, where he graduated in 1945.

He received his medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1949.  He then interned for one year at the Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas.  He began a general residency at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, but was recalled to active duty with the Naval Medical Corps in October, 1950. 

He was commissioned as a lieutenant jg, and after several months in the United States, was sent to Korea where he maintained a battalion aid station for the Army with the Twenty-Fourth Division.  He was awarded a United Nations Citation for his service.  In 1951, he was transferred to the naval hospital in Oceanside, California, and shortly after this, he became ill and was hospitalized there until 1953, when he was retired by the Navy.  He returned to Austin and worked with the Austin Anesthesiology Group until January 1955, when he went to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas as a resident in anesthesia.

Dr. Davis was a member of the Travis County Medical Society, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity.  He was also a member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity and the Christian Church.  He enjoyed flying and sailing, and received his private pilot's license when he was seventeen. 

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Davis, and two sisters, Miss Madelon Elaine Davis and Mrs. Florine Branch, all of Austin.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or Dr. Davis' career.

Rex Edward Van Duzen, M.D. (1893-1955)

Dr. Rex Edward Van Duzen of Dallas, Texas, urologist, died in a local hospital on May 24, 1955, following a brief illness.  He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Dallas County Medical Society, and in 1954 served as chairman of the Urology Section of the American Medical Association.  He was an honorary member of the Mexico Society of Urology; his other medical affiliations included membership in the American Urology Association, the Pan American Medical Association, and Phi Chi medical fraternity and fellowship in the American College of Surgeons.  He was chairman of the Section on Urology of the Southwestern Medical Association.

Born in Breckenridge, Michigan on November 15, 1893, he was the son of Charles Van Duzen and Amy Taylor Van Duzen.  He was graduated from Alma College in Michigan in 1913 and received his medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor.  In 1918, he served an internship at the New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, and two years later he served his residency in the University of Michigan Hospital.  He did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.  He moved to Dallas in 1920 and had been in active practice here since that time.

He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, belonged to the Dallas Country Club, and had served on the board of directors of the Dallas Athletic Club since 1949.  During World War I, he served in the medical corps as a first lieutenant and was stationed in France.

Dr. Van Duzen was married to the former Miss Barbara Shaw of Galveston on March 15, 1922.  She survives, as do three daughters; Mrs. Fred B. Freeman, Miss Yvonne Van Duzen and Miss Gail Van Duzen, all of Dallas; his mother Mrs. Amy Van Duzen of Ypsilanti, Michigan; two brothers, Dr. Verne L. Van Duzen of Ypsilanti, and Dr. Dale Van Duzen of Cleveland, Ohio.

= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the physician's career.

Thomas Owen Murray (1871-1953)

Thomas Owen Murray, 82, of 1211 McIlvaine Street in San Antonio, died in his home Friday August 14th.  A native Texan, he was born in Wilson County on July 10, 1871 to Robert Washington Murray and Margaret Frances James Murray.  Thomas moved to San Antonio in 1903 and had lived in the city for more than 50 years at the time of his death.  He was a carpenter and a member of the Los Angeles Heights Presbyterian Church. 

In 1909, Thomas married Miss Margaret Olivia Yeamans in San Antonio.  Mrs. Murray survives, as do a son Thomas Owen Murray, Jr.; a daughter Mrs. Ray T. Dixon, both of San Antonio; three brothers, J.G. Murray, Obed R. Murray and I.C. Murray, all of San Antonio; and two sisters, Mrs. H.L. Miller of San Antonio and Mrs. G.M. Warren of Lavernia, Texas.

Services will be held at 10am Monday at the Los Angeles Heights Presbyterian Church.  Interment will be at Roselawn Memorial Park.

== Obituary based on a notice in the San Antonio Express, 16 August 1953.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

John Edward O'Neill (1886-1953)

Funeral services will be held at 10am Monday at Porter Loring Chapel for John Edward O'Neill of 240 Bushnell Avenue.  Mr. O'Neill died Tuesday, August 11, 1953 in Muskegon, Michigan.  He was born on August 13, 1886 in Charlotte, Michigan.  He was president and general manager of the Mission Provision Company in San Antonio.  From 1906-1921, he had been a manager for the Swift Packing Company.

He was a former national officer and member of the board of directors of the National Independent Meat Packers, a member of the San Antonio Country Club, and the Rotary Club.  Surviving is his wife Mrs. Lula Philipe O'Neill of San Antonio. 

The Rev. Harold C. Gosnell will officiate at the rites and interment will be in Mission Burial Park.  Pallbearers will be F.E. Gerth, Sr., W.W. Adams, Col. H.G. Fitzgerald, T.A. Lambert, George Parker and Bob Smith.

= = Obituary published in the San Antonio (TX) Express, 16 August 1953.  Date of birth was obtained from WWI registration papers, online.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this individual or his family.

D. Alonzo York, M.D. (1867-1955)

Dr. D. Alonzo York, city health officer of Del Rio, Texas, for 21 years, died at his home on April 29, 1955.  He was born in February 1867 in Clayton, Georgia to Van Buren York and Sara Hopper York.  He received his preliminary education at the Hiawasse Institute in Clayton and then graduated from Mercer College in Mason.  He completed his medical education at Emory University in Atlanta, which was then known as Atlanta Medical College.  He practiced briefly in Georgia before coming to Texas, where he lived first in Mineola and then moved to Del Rio in 1911.

A member almost continuously since 1904 of the Medina-Uvalde-Maverick-Val Verde-Edwards-Real-McKinney-Terrell-Zavala Counties Medical Society, he was also a member of the Texas Medical Association and was elected to honorary membership in 1949.  Dr. York was a former member of the board of directors of the World Health Organization and served as city and county health officer. 

During World War I, he organized the first Red Cross chapter in the county and became its first instructor in First Aid.  He was a Mason and a former member of the board of trustees of the Del Rio Independent School District.  He was a charter member of the Lions Club and a member of the Methodist church.  He helped found the San Felipe Country Club, and for many years was a golf enthusiast.

Dr. York and Miss Helena Moore were married on June 9, 1893.  Mrs. Moore died on April 4, 1948.  Survivors include a son, Dr. D.A. York, medical director of the Universal Match Corporation in Karnack; two daughters, Mrs. Sam Harwood of Brackettville and Mrs. Horace Fawcett of Del Rio; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

== Published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding the family or the career of the deceased.

Samuel A. Scott, M.D. (1924-1955)

Dr. Samuel A. Scott, neurosurgeon, died at a local hospital in Amarillo, Texas, on June 18, 1955 of acute myocarditis.  He had been hospitalized for several days with a streptococcal infection and was discharged and dressed to leave the hospital when he was stricken.

He was born in Houston, Mississippi, on June 23, 1924, the son of Alonzo A. Scott and Mantee Scott.  He attended Mississippi State College and the University of Mississippi.  He received his medical education at Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, graduating in 1947.  He served his residency at the Baptist Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee and interned for two years at Baptist Hospital in New Orleans.  He was associated with the Veterans Administration Regional Office in Memphis and the VA Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, for one year each.

Dr. Scott moved to Amarillo on February 1, 1955 and started his first private practice.  During the few months he practiced there, he had built up an unusual practice in neurosurgery and was becoming highly regarded by his colleagues for his ability.  He had applied for membership in the Potter County Medical Society but had not completed the necessary six months of practice required before he qualified for membership.  He had previously qualified for the American Board of Neurological Surgery with the exception of the required two years of practice. 

Dr. Scott was a member of the Baptist church.  He served in the Army during World War II, and was recalled during the Korean conflict, spending two years in Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Scott and Miss Virginia Keough were married on January 20, 1951 in Blackstone, Virginia.  Mrs. Scott survives, as do their two small children, Sandra and Brister.  Dr. Scott's father, Alonzo A. Scott of Eden, Mississippi, also survives.

== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or Dr. Scott's career.

Edgar Harland Irvin, M.D. (1875-1955)

Dr. Edgar Harland Irvin, a retired eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, died in El Paso on April 17, 1955.  He was the son of Dr. Orlando Clark and Elizabeth MacMillan Irvin, and was born on January 26, 1875 in Bunker Hill, Indiana.  He attended public schools in Cleveland, Ohio and El Paso, Texas.  In 1899, he graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He became a staff member of Hotel Dieu in El Paso and had practiced in that city for 53 years.  He retired in 1952.

Dr. Irvin was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the El Paso County Medical Society almost continuously from 1904 until 1948.  He was a past president of the El Paso County Medical Society, and a member of Phi Alpha Sigma medical fraternity.  During World War I, he served as a captain in the medical corps.

Dr. Irvin and Miss Ida B. Crawford were married in Philadelphia on April 18, 1900.  Survivors include Mrs. Irvin of El Paso, one daughter, Mrs. W.D. Woodul of El Paso; two sons, Harland M. Irvin of Los Angeles, California, and C.M. Irvin of El Paso; one sister, Miss Hallie P. Irvin of El Paso, eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

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

Robert Wayne Bagwell, M.D. (1916-1955)

Dr. Robert Wayne Bagwell of Borger, Texas died on May 23, 1955 of coronary thrombosis.  He was born in Claude on June 10, 1916 to Robert L. Bagwell and Bertie Weeks Bagwell.  He attended elementary and high schools in Claude, then graduated from the University of Texas in 1937.  His medical education was obtained at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1941, and he served his internship at the Baltimore City Hospital.  Dr. Bagwell practiced briefly at Kenvir, Kentucky and Amarillo, Texas; then became assistant resident in Brackenridge Hospital in Austin. 

Immediately after his work there, he reported for duty with the medical corps of the United States Navy.  In 1944, he served with the Eighth amphibious force in the European-African area.  He later was assigned to naval hospitals in San Bernardino and Corona, California. 

After the war, Dr. Bagwell joined the staff of the North Plains Hospital in Borger, where he remained until the time of his death.  He was a member of the Top o' Texas Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and Phi Chi medical fraternity.  He was also a member of the Borger Chamber of Commerce.

On August 1, 1943, Dr. Bagwell married Miss Josephine Kelln in Austin, Texas.  Mrs. Bagwell and three children (Jan, Suzanne, and Robert Wayne) survive.  His mother Mrs. Bertie Bagwell of Claude survives, as do two brothers, Don Bagwell of Claude and Bill Bagwell of Farmington, Arizona.  Six sisters also survive: Miss Imogene Bagwell of El Paso, Mrs. Johnnie Doshier of Vega, Mrs. Janice Berg of Washington D.C., Mrs. Maurine Leach of Lubbock, Mrs. Edith Morris of Ralls, and Mrs. Estelle Melton of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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