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Dr James Barron

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Dr James Barron

Birth
Sturgis, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, USA
Death
1 Dec 1996 (aged 82)
Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
Burial
Indianola, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA GPS-Latitude: 33.450889, Longitude: -90.6352605
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James Barron
Dr. James Barron, 82, died December 1, 1996 at his home in Boca Raton, Florida, following a prolonged illness. Mr. Barron was born in Sturgis, Mississippi, and reared in Indianola. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barron. After graduating from Indianola High School in 1933, he received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Tulane University in New Orleans. He spent his surgical internship and residency training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich. During WWII, he served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Army Medical Air Corps in Europe. After the war, he rejoined the surgical staff at Henry Ford Hospital, where he invented the Barron food pump and the rubber band ligation technique for hemorrhoid removal. Mr. Barron moved to Boca Raton in 1970 where he was on the staff of the Boca Raton Community Hospital, until retirement in 1989. He was a member of St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in Boca Raton. Survivors include his wife: Jean Kent Early Barron; daughter: Anne Barron; son: James R. Barron, all of Boca Raton; three grandchildren; brother Thomas M. Barron of Indianola; sisters: Louise B. McCraw of Greenville and Anna Ruth B. Williams of Overland Park, Kan. A memorial service was held December 7 at St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in Boca Raton.
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James Barron
Dr. James Barron, 82, died December 1, 1996 at his home in Boca Raton, Florida, following a prolonged illness. Mr. Barron was born in Sturgis, Mississippi, and reared in Indianola. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barron. After graduating from Indianola High School in 1933, he received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Tulane University in New Orleans. He spent his surgical internship and residency training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich. During WWII, he served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Army Medical Air Corps in Europe. After the war, he rejoined the surgical staff at Henry Ford Hospital, where he invented the Barron food pump and the rubber band ligation technique for hemorrhoid removal. Mr. Barron moved to Boca Raton in 1970 where he was on the staff of the Boca Raton Community Hospital, until retirement in 1989. He was a member of St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in Boca Raton. Survivors include his wife: Jean Kent Early Barron; daughter: Anne Barron; son: James R. Barron, all of Boca Raton; three grandchildren; brother Thomas M. Barron of Indianola; sisters: Louise B. McCraw of Greenville and Anna Ruth B. Williams of Overland Park, Kan. A memorial service was held December 7 at St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in Boca Raton.
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