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Dr Mack Whitis

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Dr Mack Whitis

Birth
Clay County, Kentucky, USA
Death
24 May 1964 (aged 84)
Laurel County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
London, Laurel County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Dr. Mack Whitis was born on Pistol Creek in Clay County on September 1, 1882, to John and Martha Garland Whitis. He left home at the age of 16 to go to Oregon to herd sheep. When he returned home he entered the University of Louisville Medical School and graduated from there in 1908. He also studied in New York, Philadelphia and at John Hopkins in Baltimore. He married Alpha Bowling June 9, 1913, in Jeffersonville, Indiana. They had no children. He lived at McWhorter where he practiced medicine until the flood of 1937. After the flood he set up practice in East Bernstadt. He died of a heart attack on May 24, 1964, while attending a service at East Bernstadt Baptist Church where he had been a deacon for 38 years. He is buried at A. R. Dyche Memorial Cemetery.
Source August 30, 1984, "Traces of Laurel" column edited by Jan Sparkman using information submitted by Malvery R. Begley shared by contrib 48313046 Susan Bailey Robinson
Dr. Mack Whitis was born on Pistol Creek in Clay County on September 1, 1882, to John and Martha Garland Whitis. He left home at the age of 16 to go to Oregon to herd sheep. When he returned home he entered the University of Louisville Medical School and graduated from there in 1908. He also studied in New York, Philadelphia and at John Hopkins in Baltimore. He married Alpha Bowling June 9, 1913, in Jeffersonville, Indiana. They had no children. He lived at McWhorter where he practiced medicine until the flood of 1937. After the flood he set up practice in East Bernstadt. He died of a heart attack on May 24, 1964, while attending a service at East Bernstadt Baptist Church where he had been a deacon for 38 years. He is buried at A. R. Dyche Memorial Cemetery.
Source August 30, 1984, "Traces of Laurel" column edited by Jan Sparkman using information submitted by Malvery R. Begley shared by contrib 48313046 Susan Bailey Robinson

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  • Maintained by: downhome31
  • Originally Created by: D & L
  • Added: Mar 31, 2005
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10709514/mack-whitis: accessed ), memorial page for Dr Mack Whitis (1 Sep 1879–24 May 1964), Find a Grave Memorial ID 10709514, citing A.R. Dyche Memorial Park, London, Laurel County, Kentucky, USA; Maintained by downhome31 (contributor 47158083).