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.