A funeral for Dr. Edmund Bennett Alvis, a longtime ophthalmologist in St. Louis, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Lupton Chapel, 7233 Delmar Boulevard in University City. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Dr. Alvis, 78, of Town & Country, died Thursday at his home. He had suffered from cancer.
He was born in Olney, Ill., and got his medical degree in 1934 from Washington University.
After selecting ophthalmology as his specialty and completing his residency at Barnes Hospital, Dr. Alvis joined Barnes, where he was on the staff for 50 years. He also worked with his father, Dr. Bennett Y. Alvis, in the ophthalmological practice of Alvis, Kayes & Knoph in St. Louis. He retired in 1984.
He was on the teaching staff of Washington University's Department of Ophthalmology.
In World War II, he rose to the rank of colonel in the Army while serving with the 21st General Hospital Unit in North Africa, Italy and France.
He was a life member of the Southern Medical Association and a past president of the St. Louis Ophthalmological Society.
Surviving are his wife, Helen Elizabeth Pickard Alvis; a daughter, Elizabeth Alvis Rosenthal of Wilmette, Ill.; and two grandchildren.
Dr. Alvis, 78, of Town & Country, died Thursday at his home. He had suffered from cancer.
He was born in Olney, Ill., and got his medical degree in 1934 from Washington University.
After selecting ophthalmology as his specialty and completing his residency at Barnes Hospital, Dr. Alvis joined Barnes, where he was on the staff for 50 years. He also worked with his father, Dr. Bennett Y. Alvis, in the ophthalmological practice of Alvis, Kayes & Knoph in St. Louis. He retired in 1984.
He was on the teaching staff of Washington University's Department of Ophthalmology.
In World War II, he rose to the rank of colonel in the Army while serving with the 21st General Hospital Unit in North Africa, Italy and France.
He was a life member of the Southern Medical Association and a past president of the St. Louis Ophthalmological Society.
Surviving are his wife, Helen Elizabeth Pickard Alvis; a daughter, Elizabeth Alvis Rosenthal of Wilmette, Ill.; and two grandchildren.
A funeral for Dr. Edmund Bennett Alvis, a longtime ophthalmologist in St. Louis, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Lupton Chapel, 7233 Delmar Boulevard in University City. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Dr. Alvis, 78, of Town & Country, died Thursday at his home. He had suffered from cancer.
He was born in Olney, Ill., and got his medical degree in 1934 from Washington University.
After selecting ophthalmology as his specialty and completing his residency at Barnes Hospital, Dr. Alvis joined Barnes, where he was on the staff for 50 years. He also worked with his father, Dr. Bennett Y. Alvis, in the ophthalmological practice of Alvis, Kayes & Knoph in St. Louis. He retired in 1984.
He was on the teaching staff of Washington University's Department of Ophthalmology.
In World War II, he rose to the rank of colonel in the Army while serving with the 21st General Hospital Unit in North Africa, Italy and France.
He was a life member of the Southern Medical Association and a past president of the St. Louis Ophthalmological Society.
Surviving are his wife, Helen Elizabeth Pickard Alvis; a daughter, Elizabeth Alvis Rosenthal of Wilmette, Ill.; and two grandchildren.
Dr. Alvis, 78, of Town & Country, died Thursday at his home. He had suffered from cancer.
He was born in Olney, Ill., and got his medical degree in 1934 from Washington University.
After selecting ophthalmology as his specialty and completing his residency at Barnes Hospital, Dr. Alvis joined Barnes, where he was on the staff for 50 years. He also worked with his father, Dr. Bennett Y. Alvis, in the ophthalmological practice of Alvis, Kayes & Knoph in St. Louis. He retired in 1984.
He was on the teaching staff of Washington University's Department of Ophthalmology.
In World War II, he rose to the rank of colonel in the Army while serving with the 21st General Hospital Unit in North Africa, Italy and France.
He was a life member of the Southern Medical Association and a past president of the St. Louis Ophthalmological Society.
Surviving are his wife, Helen Elizabeth Pickard Alvis; a daughter, Elizabeth Alvis Rosenthal of Wilmette, Ill.; and two grandchildren.
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