Mrs. Cary's Rites Slated Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Georgie Fonda Schneider Cary, 86, of 4712 Lakeside Drive, widow of the nationally prominent physician, Dr. Edward H. Cary who founded the Southwestern Medical Foundation, now the University of Texas southwestern Medical School, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Hillcrest Mausoleum Chapel East. Entombment will be in Hillcrest Mausoleum.
Mrs. Cary, whose family settled in Dallas almost 100 years ago and who served the city's cultural and civic institutions for many years, died here Monday.
She founded the Woman's Auxiliary to the Dallas County Medical Society and served as president of the Texas Medical Auxiliary from 1918 to 1920 and of the Southern Auxiliary from 1924 to 1925.
Mrs. Cary was a member of the St Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, the Dallas Woman's Club, Dallas County Club and Southern Memorial Association. She was a substantial contributor to the arts and civic institutions of Dallas in the tradition of her parents and husband.
Mrs. Cary made her debut at the Idlewild Bass of 1904. She traveled extensively in Europe and in 1910 was escorted to Idlewild by the president, Dr. Edward H. Cary, whom she married in 1911. As a wedding present, he built one of the first large homes in Highland Park, where she lived until her death.
Dr. Cary was dean and part owner of the University of Dallas Medical School, which later became Baylor University School of Medicine. When Baylor was moved to Houston in 1943, he founded the Southwestern Medical Foundation.
Known as the dean of American medicine, in 1921 Dr. Cary built the high rise Medical Arts Building, the world's first skyscraper using reinforced concrete instead of traditional steel girders.
Mrs. Cary's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jules Edouard Schneider, laid the foundation for many business, cultural, civic and social endeavors of early Dallas.
Schneider, who cut across the prairie to settle here in 1874, was one of the donors of property to and an early president of the State Fair of Texas. He was founder and president of the Dallas Gas Co., Schneider-Davis Wholesale Grocers and the Dallas Public LIbrary.
He served as executive vice-president of the old City National Bank, which is now the First National Bank, and he was one of the men who brought the railroads and electric lights to Dallas, He organized the city's first fire department.
Mrs. Cary's mother was founder of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Art Association and a charter member of the Dallas Woman's Club and Shakespeare Club. She and her husband were responsible for building of the first opera house in the city.
The Schneider home, a social center for early Dallas society, was located on three acres of land at Ross and Akard where the Southwestern Life Building and Fairmont Hotel are now located. Mrs. Schneider gave Akard Street to the city after the home was torn down.
Mrs. Cary is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elisa Schneider Blum of New York City; a son, Edward H. Cary, Jr. of Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Cary Bower of Dallas, Mrs. William Carwile of Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. John I Hill of B, nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Dallas Morning News (TX), July 22, 1970, Section D, page 4
Funeral services for Mrs. Georgie Fonda Schneider Cary, 86, of 4712 Lakeside Drive, widow of the nationally prominent physician, Dr. Edward H. Cary who founded the Southwestern Medical Foundation, now the University of Texas southwestern Medical School, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Hillcrest Mausoleum Chapel East. Entombment will be in Hillcrest Mausoleum.
Mrs. Cary, whose family settled in Dallas almost 100 years ago and who served the city's cultural and civic institutions for many years, died here Monday.
She founded the Woman's Auxiliary to the Dallas County Medical Society and served as president of the Texas Medical Auxiliary from 1918 to 1920 and of the Southern Auxiliary from 1924 to 1925.
Mrs. Cary was a member of the St Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, the Dallas Woman's Club, Dallas County Club and Southern Memorial Association. She was a substantial contributor to the arts and civic institutions of Dallas in the tradition of her parents and husband.
Mrs. Cary made her debut at the Idlewild Bass of 1904. She traveled extensively in Europe and in 1910 was escorted to Idlewild by the president, Dr. Edward H. Cary, whom she married in 1911. As a wedding present, he built one of the first large homes in Highland Park, where she lived until her death.
Dr. Cary was dean and part owner of the University of Dallas Medical School, which later became Baylor University School of Medicine. When Baylor was moved to Houston in 1943, he founded the Southwestern Medical Foundation.
Known as the dean of American medicine, in 1921 Dr. Cary built the high rise Medical Arts Building, the world's first skyscraper using reinforced concrete instead of traditional steel girders.
Mrs. Cary's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jules Edouard Schneider, laid the foundation for many business, cultural, civic and social endeavors of early Dallas.
Schneider, who cut across the prairie to settle here in 1874, was one of the donors of property to and an early president of the State Fair of Texas. He was founder and president of the Dallas Gas Co., Schneider-Davis Wholesale Grocers and the Dallas Public LIbrary.
He served as executive vice-president of the old City National Bank, which is now the First National Bank, and he was one of the men who brought the railroads and electric lights to Dallas, He organized the city's first fire department.
Mrs. Cary's mother was founder of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Art Association and a charter member of the Dallas Woman's Club and Shakespeare Club. She and her husband were responsible for building of the first opera house in the city.
The Schneider home, a social center for early Dallas society, was located on three acres of land at Ross and Akard where the Southwestern Life Building and Fairmont Hotel are now located. Mrs. Schneider gave Akard Street to the city after the home was torn down.
Mrs. Cary is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elisa Schneider Blum of New York City; a son, Edward H. Cary, Jr. of Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Cary Bower of Dallas, Mrs. William Carwile of Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. John I Hill of B, nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Dallas Morning News (TX), July 22, 1970, Section D, page 4
Mrs. Cary's Rites Slated Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Georgie Fonda Schneider Cary, 86, of 4712 Lakeside Drive, widow of the nationally prominent physician, Dr. Edward H. Cary who founded the Southwestern Medical Foundation, now the University of Texas southwestern Medical School, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Hillcrest Mausoleum Chapel East. Entombment will be in Hillcrest Mausoleum.
Mrs. Cary, whose family settled in Dallas almost 100 years ago and who served the city's cultural and civic institutions for many years, died here Monday.
She founded the Woman's Auxiliary to the Dallas County Medical Society and served as president of the Texas Medical Auxiliary from 1918 to 1920 and of the Southern Auxiliary from 1924 to 1925.
Mrs. Cary was a member of the St Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, the Dallas Woman's Club, Dallas County Club and Southern Memorial Association. She was a substantial contributor to the arts and civic institutions of Dallas in the tradition of her parents and husband.
Mrs. Cary made her debut at the Idlewild Bass of 1904. She traveled extensively in Europe and in 1910 was escorted to Idlewild by the president, Dr. Edward H. Cary, whom she married in 1911. As a wedding present, he built one of the first large homes in Highland Park, where she lived until her death.
Dr. Cary was dean and part owner of the University of Dallas Medical School, which later became Baylor University School of Medicine. When Baylor was moved to Houston in 1943, he founded the Southwestern Medical Foundation.
Known as the dean of American medicine, in 1921 Dr. Cary built the high rise Medical Arts Building, the world's first skyscraper using reinforced concrete instead of traditional steel girders.
Mrs. Cary's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jules Edouard Schneider, laid the foundation for many business, cultural, civic and social endeavors of early Dallas.
Schneider, who cut across the prairie to settle here in 1874, was one of the donors of property to and an early president of the State Fair of Texas. He was founder and president of the Dallas Gas Co., Schneider-Davis Wholesale Grocers and the Dallas Public LIbrary.
He served as executive vice-president of the old City National Bank, which is now the First National Bank, and he was one of the men who brought the railroads and electric lights to Dallas, He organized the city's first fire department.
Mrs. Cary's mother was founder of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Art Association and a charter member of the Dallas Woman's Club and Shakespeare Club. She and her husband were responsible for building of the first opera house in the city.
The Schneider home, a social center for early Dallas society, was located on three acres of land at Ross and Akard where the Southwestern Life Building and Fairmont Hotel are now located. Mrs. Schneider gave Akard Street to the city after the home was torn down.
Mrs. Cary is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elisa Schneider Blum of New York City; a son, Edward H. Cary, Jr. of Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Cary Bower of Dallas, Mrs. William Carwile of Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. John I Hill of B, nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Dallas Morning News (TX), July 22, 1970, Section D, page 4
Funeral services for Mrs. Georgie Fonda Schneider Cary, 86, of 4712 Lakeside Drive, widow of the nationally prominent physician, Dr. Edward H. Cary who founded the Southwestern Medical Foundation, now the University of Texas southwestern Medical School, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Hillcrest Mausoleum Chapel East. Entombment will be in Hillcrest Mausoleum.
Mrs. Cary, whose family settled in Dallas almost 100 years ago and who served the city's cultural and civic institutions for many years, died here Monday.
She founded the Woman's Auxiliary to the Dallas County Medical Society and served as president of the Texas Medical Auxiliary from 1918 to 1920 and of the Southern Auxiliary from 1924 to 1925.
Mrs. Cary was a member of the St Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, the Dallas Woman's Club, Dallas County Club and Southern Memorial Association. She was a substantial contributor to the arts and civic institutions of Dallas in the tradition of her parents and husband.
Mrs. Cary made her debut at the Idlewild Bass of 1904. She traveled extensively in Europe and in 1910 was escorted to Idlewild by the president, Dr. Edward H. Cary, whom she married in 1911. As a wedding present, he built one of the first large homes in Highland Park, where she lived until her death.
Dr. Cary was dean and part owner of the University of Dallas Medical School, which later became Baylor University School of Medicine. When Baylor was moved to Houston in 1943, he founded the Southwestern Medical Foundation.
Known as the dean of American medicine, in 1921 Dr. Cary built the high rise Medical Arts Building, the world's first skyscraper using reinforced concrete instead of traditional steel girders.
Mrs. Cary's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jules Edouard Schneider, laid the foundation for many business, cultural, civic and social endeavors of early Dallas.
Schneider, who cut across the prairie to settle here in 1874, was one of the donors of property to and an early president of the State Fair of Texas. He was founder and president of the Dallas Gas Co., Schneider-Davis Wholesale Grocers and the Dallas Public LIbrary.
He served as executive vice-president of the old City National Bank, which is now the First National Bank, and he was one of the men who brought the railroads and electric lights to Dallas, He organized the city's first fire department.
Mrs. Cary's mother was founder of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Art Association and a charter member of the Dallas Woman's Club and Shakespeare Club. She and her husband were responsible for building of the first opera house in the city.
The Schneider home, a social center for early Dallas society, was located on three acres of land at Ross and Akard where the Southwestern Life Building and Fairmont Hotel are now located. Mrs. Schneider gave Akard Street to the city after the home was torn down.
Mrs. Cary is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elisa Schneider Blum of New York City; a son, Edward H. Cary, Jr. of Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Cary Bower of Dallas, Mrs. William Carwile of Tulsa, Okla., and Mrs. John I Hill of B, nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Dallas Morning News (TX), July 22, 1970, Section D, page 4
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