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Dr Edgar Galloway

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Dr Edgar Galloway Veteran

Birth
Cass County, Texas, USA
Death
1 Mar 1982 (aged 87)
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, March 2, 1982, Tuesday, p. 9-A:

SHREVEPORT – Services for Dr. Edgar Galloway, 87, of Shreveport, will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday March 2 at the Osborn Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. William Hull, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport will officiate. Burial with Masonic graveside rites will be at Forest Park Cemetery.

He died at 2:25 a.m. Monday March 1, 1982 at the Schumpert Medical Center following a brief illness.

Dr. Galloway, born in Cass County, Tex., and a longtime resident of Shreveport, was a retired Medical Doctor, retiring in 1972 as Director of the Confederate Memorial Medical Center, now LSU Medical Center, in Shreveport.

He practiced medicine in Shreveport and Vivian, La., served as Surveyor for the American Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and was a former Medical Director of Duval County Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla. He was a member of the American Medical Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society, the Shreveport Medical Society, the 40 & 8 of the American Legion, the El Karubah Shrine, was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of Joppa Lodge No. 362 F&AM, a member of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport and was a veteran of World War I. He was the recipient of the Shreveport Medical Society's Distinguished Service Award in 1972.

Dr. Galloway, a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. and Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, La., interned at the Shreveport Charity Hospital.

He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Mary Galloway Morrison of Laurel, Miss., Mrs. George T. Brown of Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Homer G. McDowell and Miss Martha E. Galloway, both of Shreveport, La.; 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be George T. Brown, Jr., Thomas A. Brown, James U. Morrison, Charles E. Morrison, M.D., Robert T. Morrison, William K. Morrison, George M. Bedgood and Sidney B. Galloway.

Honorary pallbearers will be the Shreveport Medical Society.

Family requests, in lieu of flowers, all memorials be made to The Baptist Children's Home or organization of choice.
Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, March 2, 1982, Tuesday, p. 9-A:

SHREVEPORT – Services for Dr. Edgar Galloway, 87, of Shreveport, will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday March 2 at the Osborn Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. William Hull, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport will officiate. Burial with Masonic graveside rites will be at Forest Park Cemetery.

He died at 2:25 a.m. Monday March 1, 1982 at the Schumpert Medical Center following a brief illness.

Dr. Galloway, born in Cass County, Tex., and a longtime resident of Shreveport, was a retired Medical Doctor, retiring in 1972 as Director of the Confederate Memorial Medical Center, now LSU Medical Center, in Shreveport.

He practiced medicine in Shreveport and Vivian, La., served as Surveyor for the American Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and was a former Medical Director of Duval County Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla. He was a member of the American Medical Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society, the Shreveport Medical Society, the 40 & 8 of the American Legion, the El Karubah Shrine, was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of Joppa Lodge No. 362 F&AM, a member of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport and was a veteran of World War I. He was the recipient of the Shreveport Medical Society's Distinguished Service Award in 1972.

Dr. Galloway, a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. and Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, La., interned at the Shreveport Charity Hospital.

He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Mary Galloway Morrison of Laurel, Miss., Mrs. George T. Brown of Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Homer G. McDowell and Miss Martha E. Galloway, both of Shreveport, La.; 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be George T. Brown, Jr., Thomas A. Brown, James U. Morrison, Charles E. Morrison, M.D., Robert T. Morrison, William K. Morrison, George M. Bedgood and Sidney B. Galloway.

Honorary pallbearers will be the Shreveport Medical Society.

Family requests, in lieu of flowers, all memorials be made to The Baptist Children's Home or organization of choice.


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