Dr. Robert Edward Paine Jr. (Dr. Bob, Grandoc) of Salem completed his earthly tour-of-duty Wednesday, March 19, 2014. "Adventure calls!" he would say. He was born in Roanoke on April 27, 1925, to Edith Emily Davis Paine and Robert E. Paine Sr. Two of his mother's five physician-brothers (Paul, Algie, Fred, Hal and Gib) and her father (Dr. J. G. Davis) attended his birth. (His Paine uncle was also a physician.)
He graduated from Jefferson High School, where he was senior class treasurer (1942). Despite asthma he ran track on the Mason-Dixon trophy-winning JHS cross-country team. He also enjoyed tennis and swimming for most of his 88 years-and just days ago hoped to return to physical therapy.
He graduated from the University of Richmond (academic scholarship; Kappa Sigma fraternity; Boatwright Society). He completed requirements for his 1947 MD degree from the Medical College of Virginia at 21 (Phi Beta Pi fraternity). He said he studied hard to earn unlimited "cuts" from class in order to spend time with the love-of-his-life, Alice Frances Parson, daughter of Dr. Andrew and Anne Parson of Richlands. He proposed to her in the Mary Baldwin College parlor.
Having served in the U. S. Navy Reserves during World War II, he was surprised years later by an "invitation" to the Marine Corps. Thinking it was a prank, he hung up the phone. Lt. Paine graduated as a flight surgeon from Pensacola Naval Air Station and served on the staff of Fleet Air Atlantic during the Korean War.
Other education: Internships and residencies at Norfolk General and ("old") Lewis-Gale Hospital, Roanoke. Also post-graduate work in internal medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital.
For fifteen years Dr. Bob had a "very general" solo practice in internal medicine in Salem, where he made house calls (!) and had the first EKG machine in town, thanks to Uncle Hal. In 1967 he felt "called" to help set up and run the first alcohol- / drug-rehab program at the Salem VA Hospital, where he also had an internal medical practice. (This was one of the first-perhaps even the first-such VA program in the nation immediately following the U.S. recognition of alcoholism as a disease.) He continued volunteering there for another ten years after retirement. With Judge Beverly Fitzpatrick he helped establish Roanoke's "drug court."
Dr. Bob tended patients at seven area hospitals / medical centers-and continued to make house calls for decades, even if only to lift one's spirit ("visiting the elderly" through his 80s). He also taught student nurses at area hospitals. He was medical director for White Cross (now Mt. Regis Treatment Center).
Many called on him as a volunteer physician: The Andrew Lewis High School football team (ten years). Boy Scout Troop 54 (where he was named an honorary Order of the Arrow); 1964 National Boy Scout Jamboree medical team. The Red Cross. For decades he helped conduct physicals for student athletes.
Raised as a Baptist (Roanoke's Calvary Baptist, where he first joined the Scouts), he became an active member of Salem Presbyterian, "thanks to Alice." At SPC he served as deacon, elder, Sunday School teacher / superintendent and Scout representative. Later a faithful member of St. Paul's Episcopal ("the other corner of Main & Market"), he was a member of committees and the men's club, and served as an usher. Only recently did his health keep him from helping to serve weekly communion at the Virginia Veterans' Care Center.
Among his medical associations and titles: The AMA (Physicians Recognition Award). American Society on Alcoholism. American Society of Internal Medicine. Virginia Medical Society. Roanoke Academy of Medicine. Tuberculosis / Respiratory board. MS board. Muscular Dystrophy board. Vice-president and board, Mental Health of the Roanoke Valley (many years). Lewis-Gale Medical Foundation Board. Medical Director (1966) and board, Rescue Squads of Virginia. Salem Rescue Squad medical adviser. Virginia Lung Association board; Virginia Thoracic Society board. Board, president, Roanoke Valley Heart Association.
Other associations included Friends of the Salem Library (a founder; officer; faithful volunteer with the annual book sale). Life member, Salem and Roanoke Valley Historical Societies; docent, Salem Museum. Salem Sports Foundation (he kept attending Salem High School and rec-league games). Member, City of Salem Long-range Planning Committee.
He was a 32nd-degree Mason with Lakeland Lodge, and a member of Scottish Rite and Kazim Temples, where his dad had been potentate.
For many years he was an officer in the Military Order of World Wars. Surgeon general of the Mayflower Society of Virginia for several years. Member, Magna Carta and Jamestowne Societies.
He enjoyed longtime, continuing membership in Island Ford Hunt Club-for the camaraderie and Nature (he was no threat to wildlife). A gentleman-as well as a gentle man-he made sure to dance with every lady at Alice's Salem Junior Guild table.
Dr. Bob was known for his dry wit (maybe you recall a Grandoc-ism), kindness, humility (he didn't flaunt his smarts or advertise his good deeds) and generosity (he never refused a lemonade stand or a fundraising child at the door). A world traveler, artist, craftsman, reader and lifelong learner (even starting violin lessons in his 80s!), he loved the Roanoke College ElderScholar program-and even studied medical education updates and quizzes until the end.
Our Grandoc deserved his title of Roanoke Valley Father of the Year for Family Life (1982). But his family extended beyond "blood." Through quiet, good deeds he patched bodies and lives; shared his resources; encouraged children; guided the stumbling and comforted the distressed. If you seek his monuments, look to the many folks he helped.
Preceding him through the gates of larger life were his parents; sister Edith (Babs) Paine; and son Robert Parson Paine (Bobby). Surely all are romping with their sweet Labradors.
He is survived by his beloved soul-mate for 70 years, wife Alice, to whose care he was devoted (he "ruined the curve" for the rest of us); daughter Emily Paine Carter; grandchildren Erik Paine Brady and Caroline Alice Brady Velasquez (husband Mario); and great-grandchildren Lennon Robert, Adeline Parson and Collier David Velasquez. He loved his cousins and friends too!
We will try to follow his example as we "trudge the road to Happy Destiny."
The family will receive friends on Friday, 28 March 2014, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the John M. Oakey & Son chapel in Salem. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, 29 March 2014, at 10:30 a.m. at Sherwood Memorial Park in Salem. A celebration of his life will follow at Noon at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem.
Although Dr. Bob loved flowers, he loved charity more, so the family suggests that memorials be made to a charity of your choice. And keep planting trees, kind words and good deeds.
The Paine family is being served by John M. Oakey & Son Funeral Home in Salem, 540-389-5441.
Posted in Obituaries on Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:00 am.
He graduated from Jefferson High School, where he was senior class treasurer (1942). Despite asthma he ran track on the Mason-Dixon trophy-winning JHS cross-country team. He also enjoyed tennis and swimming for most of his 88 years-and just days ago hoped to return to physical therapy.
He graduated from the University of Richmond (academic scholarship; Kappa Sigma fraternity; Boatwright Society). He completed requirements for his 1947 MD degree from the Medical College of Virginia at 21 (Phi Beta Pi fraternity). He said he studied hard to earn unlimited "cuts" from class in order to spend time with the love-of-his-life, Alice Frances Parson, daughter of Dr. Andrew and Anne Parson of Richlands. He proposed to her in the Mary Baldwin College parlor.
Having served in the U. S. Navy Reserves during World War II, he was surprised years later by an "invitation" to the Marine Corps. Thinking it was a prank, he hung up the phone. Lt. Paine graduated as a flight surgeon from Pensacola Naval Air Station and served on the staff of Fleet Air Atlantic during the Korean War.
Other education: Internships and residencies at Norfolk General and ("old") Lewis-Gale Hospital, Roanoke. Also post-graduate work in internal medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital.
For fifteen years Dr. Bob had a "very general" solo practice in internal medicine in Salem, where he made house calls (!) and had the first EKG machine in town, thanks to Uncle Hal. In 1967 he felt "called" to help set up and run the first alcohol- / drug-rehab program at the Salem VA Hospital, where he also had an internal medical practice. (This was one of the first-perhaps even the first-such VA program in the nation immediately following the U.S. recognition of alcoholism as a disease.) He continued volunteering there for another ten years after retirement. With Judge Beverly Fitzpatrick he helped establish Roanoke's "drug court."
Dr. Bob tended patients at seven area hospitals / medical centers-and continued to make house calls for decades, even if only to lift one's spirit ("visiting the elderly" through his 80s). He also taught student nurses at area hospitals. He was medical director for White Cross (now Mt. Regis Treatment Center).
Many called on him as a volunteer physician: The Andrew Lewis High School football team (ten years). Boy Scout Troop 54 (where he was named an honorary Order of the Arrow); 1964 National Boy Scout Jamboree medical team. The Red Cross. For decades he helped conduct physicals for student athletes.
Raised as a Baptist (Roanoke's Calvary Baptist, where he first joined the Scouts), he became an active member of Salem Presbyterian, "thanks to Alice." At SPC he served as deacon, elder, Sunday School teacher / superintendent and Scout representative. Later a faithful member of St. Paul's Episcopal ("the other corner of Main & Market"), he was a member of committees and the men's club, and served as an usher. Only recently did his health keep him from helping to serve weekly communion at the Virginia Veterans' Care Center.
Among his medical associations and titles: The AMA (Physicians Recognition Award). American Society on Alcoholism. American Society of Internal Medicine. Virginia Medical Society. Roanoke Academy of Medicine. Tuberculosis / Respiratory board. MS board. Muscular Dystrophy board. Vice-president and board, Mental Health of the Roanoke Valley (many years). Lewis-Gale Medical Foundation Board. Medical Director (1966) and board, Rescue Squads of Virginia. Salem Rescue Squad medical adviser. Virginia Lung Association board; Virginia Thoracic Society board. Board, president, Roanoke Valley Heart Association.
Other associations included Friends of the Salem Library (a founder; officer; faithful volunteer with the annual book sale). Life member, Salem and Roanoke Valley Historical Societies; docent, Salem Museum. Salem Sports Foundation (he kept attending Salem High School and rec-league games). Member, City of Salem Long-range Planning Committee.
He was a 32nd-degree Mason with Lakeland Lodge, and a member of Scottish Rite and Kazim Temples, where his dad had been potentate.
For many years he was an officer in the Military Order of World Wars. Surgeon general of the Mayflower Society of Virginia for several years. Member, Magna Carta and Jamestowne Societies.
He enjoyed longtime, continuing membership in Island Ford Hunt Club-for the camaraderie and Nature (he was no threat to wildlife). A gentleman-as well as a gentle man-he made sure to dance with every lady at Alice's Salem Junior Guild table.
Dr. Bob was known for his dry wit (maybe you recall a Grandoc-ism), kindness, humility (he didn't flaunt his smarts or advertise his good deeds) and generosity (he never refused a lemonade stand or a fundraising child at the door). A world traveler, artist, craftsman, reader and lifelong learner (even starting violin lessons in his 80s!), he loved the Roanoke College ElderScholar program-and even studied medical education updates and quizzes until the end.
Our Grandoc deserved his title of Roanoke Valley Father of the Year for Family Life (1982). But his family extended beyond "blood." Through quiet, good deeds he patched bodies and lives; shared his resources; encouraged children; guided the stumbling and comforted the distressed. If you seek his monuments, look to the many folks he helped.
Preceding him through the gates of larger life were his parents; sister Edith (Babs) Paine; and son Robert Parson Paine (Bobby). Surely all are romping with their sweet Labradors.
He is survived by his beloved soul-mate for 70 years, wife Alice, to whose care he was devoted (he "ruined the curve" for the rest of us); daughter Emily Paine Carter; grandchildren Erik Paine Brady and Caroline Alice Brady Velasquez (husband Mario); and great-grandchildren Lennon Robert, Adeline Parson and Collier David Velasquez. He loved his cousins and friends too!
We will try to follow his example as we "trudge the road to Happy Destiny."
The family will receive friends on Friday, 28 March 2014, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the John M. Oakey & Son chapel in Salem. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, 29 March 2014, at 10:30 a.m. at Sherwood Memorial Park in Salem. A celebration of his life will follow at Noon at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem.
Although Dr. Bob loved flowers, he loved charity more, so the family suggests that memorials be made to a charity of your choice. And keep planting trees, kind words and good deeds.
The Paine family is being served by John M. Oakey & Son Funeral Home in Salem, 540-389-5441.
Posted in Obituaries on Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:00 am.
Dr. Robert Edward Paine Jr. (Dr. Bob, Grandoc) of Salem completed his earthly tour-of-duty Wednesday, March 19, 2014. "Adventure calls!" he would say. He was born in Roanoke on April 27, 1925, to Edith Emily Davis Paine and Robert E. Paine Sr. Two of his mother's five physician-brothers (Paul, Algie, Fred, Hal and Gib) and her father (Dr. J. G. Davis) attended his birth. (His Paine uncle was also a physician.)
He graduated from Jefferson High School, where he was senior class treasurer (1942). Despite asthma he ran track on the Mason-Dixon trophy-winning JHS cross-country team. He also enjoyed tennis and swimming for most of his 88 years-and just days ago hoped to return to physical therapy.
He graduated from the University of Richmond (academic scholarship; Kappa Sigma fraternity; Boatwright Society). He completed requirements for his 1947 MD degree from the Medical College of Virginia at 21 (Phi Beta Pi fraternity). He said he studied hard to earn unlimited "cuts" from class in order to spend time with the love-of-his-life, Alice Frances Parson, daughter of Dr. Andrew and Anne Parson of Richlands. He proposed to her in the Mary Baldwin College parlor.
Having served in the U. S. Navy Reserves during World War II, he was surprised years later by an "invitation" to the Marine Corps. Thinking it was a prank, he hung up the phone. Lt. Paine graduated as a flight surgeon from Pensacola Naval Air Station and served on the staff of Fleet Air Atlantic during the Korean War.
Other education: Internships and residencies at Norfolk General and ("old") Lewis-Gale Hospital, Roanoke. Also post-graduate work in internal medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital.
For fifteen years Dr. Bob had a "very general" solo practice in internal medicine in Salem, where he made house calls (!) and had the first EKG machine in town, thanks to Uncle Hal. In 1967 he felt "called" to help set up and run the first alcohol- / drug-rehab program at the Salem VA Hospital, where he also had an internal medical practice. (This was one of the first-perhaps even the first-such VA program in the nation immediately following the U.S. recognition of alcoholism as a disease.) He continued volunteering there for another ten years after retirement. With Judge Beverly Fitzpatrick he helped establish Roanoke's "drug court."
Dr. Bob tended patients at seven area hospitals / medical centers-and continued to make house calls for decades, even if only to lift one's spirit ("visiting the elderly" through his 80s). He also taught student nurses at area hospitals. He was medical director for White Cross (now Mt. Regis Treatment Center).
Many called on him as a volunteer physician: The Andrew Lewis High School football team (ten years). Boy Scout Troop 54 (where he was named an honorary Order of the Arrow); 1964 National Boy Scout Jamboree medical team. The Red Cross. For decades he helped conduct physicals for student athletes.
Raised as a Baptist (Roanoke's Calvary Baptist, where he first joined the Scouts), he became an active member of Salem Presbyterian, "thanks to Alice." At SPC he served as deacon, elder, Sunday School teacher / superintendent and Scout representative. Later a faithful member of St. Paul's Episcopal ("the other corner of Main & Market"), he was a member of committees and the men's club, and served as an usher. Only recently did his health keep him from helping to serve weekly communion at the Virginia Veterans' Care Center.
Among his medical associations and titles: The AMA (Physicians Recognition Award). American Society on Alcoholism. American Society of Internal Medicine. Virginia Medical Society. Roanoke Academy of Medicine. Tuberculosis / Respiratory board. MS board. Muscular Dystrophy board. Vice-president and board, Mental Health of the Roanoke Valley (many years). Lewis-Gale Medical Foundation Board. Medical Director (1966) and board, Rescue Squads of Virginia. Salem Rescue Squad medical adviser. Virginia Lung Association board; Virginia Thoracic Society board. Board, president, Roanoke Valley Heart Association.
Other associations included Friends of the Salem Library (a founder; officer; faithful volunteer with the annual book sale). Life member, Salem and Roanoke Valley Historical Societies; docent, Salem Museum. Salem Sports Foundation (he kept attending Salem High School and rec-league games). Member, City of Salem Long-range Planning Committee.
He was a 32nd-degree Mason with Lakeland Lodge, and a member of Scottish Rite and Kazim Temples, where his dad had been potentate.
For many years he was an officer in the Military Order of World Wars. Surgeon general of the Mayflower Society of Virginia for several years. Member, Magna Carta and Jamestowne Societies.
He enjoyed longtime, continuing membership in Island Ford Hunt Club-for the camaraderie and Nature (he was no threat to wildlife). A gentleman-as well as a gentle man-he made sure to dance with every lady at Alice's Salem Junior Guild table.
Dr. Bob was known for his dry wit (maybe you recall a Grandoc-ism), kindness, humility (he didn't flaunt his smarts or advertise his good deeds) and generosity (he never refused a lemonade stand or a fundraising child at the door). A world traveler, artist, craftsman, reader and lifelong learner (even starting violin lessons in his 80s!), he loved the Roanoke College ElderScholar program-and even studied medical education updates and quizzes until the end.
Our Grandoc deserved his title of Roanoke Valley Father of the Year for Family Life (1982). But his family extended beyond "blood." Through quiet, good deeds he patched bodies and lives; shared his resources; encouraged children; guided the stumbling and comforted the distressed. If you seek his monuments, look to the many folks he helped.
Preceding him through the gates of larger life were his parents; sister Edith (Babs) Paine; and son Robert Parson Paine (Bobby). Surely all are romping with their sweet Labradors.
He is survived by his beloved soul-mate for 70 years, wife Alice, to whose care he was devoted (he "ruined the curve" for the rest of us); daughter Emily Paine Carter; grandchildren Erik Paine Brady and Caroline Alice Brady Velasquez (husband Mario); and great-grandchildren Lennon Robert, Adeline Parson and Collier David Velasquez. He loved his cousins and friends too!
We will try to follow his example as we "trudge the road to Happy Destiny."
The family will receive friends on Friday, 28 March 2014, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the John M. Oakey & Son chapel in Salem. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, 29 March 2014, at 10:30 a.m. at Sherwood Memorial Park in Salem. A celebration of his life will follow at Noon at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem.
Although Dr. Bob loved flowers, he loved charity more, so the family suggests that memorials be made to a charity of your choice. And keep planting trees, kind words and good deeds.
The Paine family is being served by John M. Oakey & Son Funeral Home in Salem, 540-389-5441.
Posted in Obituaries on Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:00 am.
He graduated from Jefferson High School, where he was senior class treasurer (1942). Despite asthma he ran track on the Mason-Dixon trophy-winning JHS cross-country team. He also enjoyed tennis and swimming for most of his 88 years-and just days ago hoped to return to physical therapy.
He graduated from the University of Richmond (academic scholarship; Kappa Sigma fraternity; Boatwright Society). He completed requirements for his 1947 MD degree from the Medical College of Virginia at 21 (Phi Beta Pi fraternity). He said he studied hard to earn unlimited "cuts" from class in order to spend time with the love-of-his-life, Alice Frances Parson, daughter of Dr. Andrew and Anne Parson of Richlands. He proposed to her in the Mary Baldwin College parlor.
Having served in the U. S. Navy Reserves during World War II, he was surprised years later by an "invitation" to the Marine Corps. Thinking it was a prank, he hung up the phone. Lt. Paine graduated as a flight surgeon from Pensacola Naval Air Station and served on the staff of Fleet Air Atlantic during the Korean War.
Other education: Internships and residencies at Norfolk General and ("old") Lewis-Gale Hospital, Roanoke. Also post-graduate work in internal medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital.
For fifteen years Dr. Bob had a "very general" solo practice in internal medicine in Salem, where he made house calls (!) and had the first EKG machine in town, thanks to Uncle Hal. In 1967 he felt "called" to help set up and run the first alcohol- / drug-rehab program at the Salem VA Hospital, where he also had an internal medical practice. (This was one of the first-perhaps even the first-such VA program in the nation immediately following the U.S. recognition of alcoholism as a disease.) He continued volunteering there for another ten years after retirement. With Judge Beverly Fitzpatrick he helped establish Roanoke's "drug court."
Dr. Bob tended patients at seven area hospitals / medical centers-and continued to make house calls for decades, even if only to lift one's spirit ("visiting the elderly" through his 80s). He also taught student nurses at area hospitals. He was medical director for White Cross (now Mt. Regis Treatment Center).
Many called on him as a volunteer physician: The Andrew Lewis High School football team (ten years). Boy Scout Troop 54 (where he was named an honorary Order of the Arrow); 1964 National Boy Scout Jamboree medical team. The Red Cross. For decades he helped conduct physicals for student athletes.
Raised as a Baptist (Roanoke's Calvary Baptist, where he first joined the Scouts), he became an active member of Salem Presbyterian, "thanks to Alice." At SPC he served as deacon, elder, Sunday School teacher / superintendent and Scout representative. Later a faithful member of St. Paul's Episcopal ("the other corner of Main & Market"), he was a member of committees and the men's club, and served as an usher. Only recently did his health keep him from helping to serve weekly communion at the Virginia Veterans' Care Center.
Among his medical associations and titles: The AMA (Physicians Recognition Award). American Society on Alcoholism. American Society of Internal Medicine. Virginia Medical Society. Roanoke Academy of Medicine. Tuberculosis / Respiratory board. MS board. Muscular Dystrophy board. Vice-president and board, Mental Health of the Roanoke Valley (many years). Lewis-Gale Medical Foundation Board. Medical Director (1966) and board, Rescue Squads of Virginia. Salem Rescue Squad medical adviser. Virginia Lung Association board; Virginia Thoracic Society board. Board, president, Roanoke Valley Heart Association.
Other associations included Friends of the Salem Library (a founder; officer; faithful volunteer with the annual book sale). Life member, Salem and Roanoke Valley Historical Societies; docent, Salem Museum. Salem Sports Foundation (he kept attending Salem High School and rec-league games). Member, City of Salem Long-range Planning Committee.
He was a 32nd-degree Mason with Lakeland Lodge, and a member of Scottish Rite and Kazim Temples, where his dad had been potentate.
For many years he was an officer in the Military Order of World Wars. Surgeon general of the Mayflower Society of Virginia for several years. Member, Magna Carta and Jamestowne Societies.
He enjoyed longtime, continuing membership in Island Ford Hunt Club-for the camaraderie and Nature (he was no threat to wildlife). A gentleman-as well as a gentle man-he made sure to dance with every lady at Alice's Salem Junior Guild table.
Dr. Bob was known for his dry wit (maybe you recall a Grandoc-ism), kindness, humility (he didn't flaunt his smarts or advertise his good deeds) and generosity (he never refused a lemonade stand or a fundraising child at the door). A world traveler, artist, craftsman, reader and lifelong learner (even starting violin lessons in his 80s!), he loved the Roanoke College ElderScholar program-and even studied medical education updates and quizzes until the end.
Our Grandoc deserved his title of Roanoke Valley Father of the Year for Family Life (1982). But his family extended beyond "blood." Through quiet, good deeds he patched bodies and lives; shared his resources; encouraged children; guided the stumbling and comforted the distressed. If you seek his monuments, look to the many folks he helped.
Preceding him through the gates of larger life were his parents; sister Edith (Babs) Paine; and son Robert Parson Paine (Bobby). Surely all are romping with their sweet Labradors.
He is survived by his beloved soul-mate for 70 years, wife Alice, to whose care he was devoted (he "ruined the curve" for the rest of us); daughter Emily Paine Carter; grandchildren Erik Paine Brady and Caroline Alice Brady Velasquez (husband Mario); and great-grandchildren Lennon Robert, Adeline Parson and Collier David Velasquez. He loved his cousins and friends too!
We will try to follow his example as we "trudge the road to Happy Destiny."
The family will receive friends on Friday, 28 March 2014, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the John M. Oakey & Son chapel in Salem. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, 29 March 2014, at 10:30 a.m. at Sherwood Memorial Park in Salem. A celebration of his life will follow at Noon at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem.
Although Dr. Bob loved flowers, he loved charity more, so the family suggests that memorials be made to a charity of your choice. And keep planting trees, kind words and good deeds.
The Paine family is being served by John M. Oakey & Son Funeral Home in Salem, 540-389-5441.
Posted in Obituaries on Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:00 am.
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