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.
