Tuesday, March 13, 2012

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. 

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