Rites Today For Retired Doctor Here
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Osborn Chapel for Dr. Cornelius Pearl Munday, 81, retired physician of 627 Dalzell St. who died at home Wednesday.
The Rev. J. J. Rasmussen, pastor of Noel Memorial Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.
A native of Dallas, Dr. Munday attended Lake Charles College and was graduated from Tulane University in 1896. He began the practice of pediatrics and dermatology in 1909 and was the first in Shreveport in these specialties.
He served as captain in the medical corps of the Army in England and France in World War I and later as lieutenant colonel in the medical reserve. He entered the U.S. Public Health Service in 1923 and served at Marine hospitals in New Orleans, Carville, Port Arthur, Tex., Evansville, Ind. and Memphis. His latter years of service were on the medical staff of the U.S. Employes Compensation Commission in Washington and New York.
Dr. Munday is survived by his widow, Mrs. Annie T. Clingman Munday; a son, Dr. J. C. Munday of Cranford, N.J.; and four grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be A. B. Clingman Jr., Hardy O'Neal, Samford Fullilove, Bryan E. Bush Jr., Edwin Higginbotham, and Prentice Alexander.
Rites Today For Retired Doctor Here
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Osborn Chapel for Dr. Cornelius Pearl Munday, 81, retired physician of 627 Dalzell St. who died at home Wednesday.
The Rev. J. J. Rasmussen, pastor of Noel Memorial Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.
A native of Dallas, Dr. Munday attended Lake Charles College and was graduated from Tulane University in 1896. He began the practice of pediatrics and dermatology in 1909 and was the first in Shreveport in these specialties.
He served as captain in the medical corps of the Army in England and France in World War I and later as lieutenant colonel in the medical reserve. He entered the U.S. Public Health Service in 1923 and served at Marine hospitals in New Orleans, Carville, Port Arthur, Tex., Evansville, Ind. and Memphis. His latter years of service were on the medical staff of the U.S. Employes Compensation Commission in Washington and New York.
Dr. Munday is survived by his widow, Mrs. Annie T. Clingman Munday; a son, Dr. J. C. Munday of Cranford, N.J.; and four grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be A. B. Clingman Jr., Hardy O'Neal, Samford Fullilove, Bryan E. Bush Jr., Edwin Higginbotham, and Prentice Alexander.
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CORNELIUS PEARL
MUNDAY, M. D.
JUNE 19, 1875
NOV. 28, 1956
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