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.
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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.
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.
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