North Vernon Plain Dealer
November 16, 1961
Dr. Dennis William Matthews, 80, who had practiced medicine for 58 years, 52 here is Jennings county, died Tuesday night at 11:30 p.m. at the hospital in Seymour. He had been a patient there for 12 days, after having suffered a stoke.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the First Baptist Church in North Vernon. Rev. A. E. Lacy, Jr., pastor, will be in charge of the services, with Dr. W. H. Dillard, former pastor of the church, to assist in the services. Burial will be in the Vernon Cemetery.
Dr. Matthews is survived by his wife, Mae; a son, Clyde, present North Vernon postmaster and former state senator; two daughters, Mrs. William Callaway and Miss Geneva Matthews, both of Commiskey, Route 1; five grandchildren; three brothers, Fred of Seymour, Sherman of Scottsburg, and Gilbert of Underwood; and two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Haines of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and Mrs. Donna Clemmer of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In a personality sketch that first appeared in October of this year in this paper, Mrs. Ruth Smith wrote: "There are no words adequate enough to express the love and respect which many of us have for our family physician. In many cases, he not only cures our bodily ills, but does so much to bring order out of chaos to our mental upheavals. such a man is Dr. D. W. Matthews, practicing physician." There were many, many families in Jennings county whose lives or lives of loved ones had been touched by this kind gentleman who echoed similar words to Mrs. Smith's when they heard the sad news that this beloved physician was gone.
Dr. Matthews was born in Washington county in 1880. He originally started in the business world, attending and graduating from a business college in Louisville in 1889. The following year, however, he entered the Hospital Medical College of Louisville (now University of Louisville) and graduated from there in 1903. His first office was in Hardinsburg. In 1909, he moved to Commiskey in Jennings county and practiced there until 1927, when he moved here to North Vernon. He practiced from his office here from that time right up to when he suffered his stroke.
It was characteristic of him that on the day he first became ill, he had seen 33 patients. He delivered nearly 3,000 babies in his many years of practice, and most of these were home deliveries.
He was a man who gave freely of himself to others, and many were the sick visits he made in his early years of practice that found him riding on horseback a distance of 15 miles or more to get to the patient.
Dr. Matthews was active in his church, the First Baptist Church, and he was a past deacon of the church. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Odd Fellows, Scottish Rite, North Vernon Chamber of Commerce and Muscatatuck Country Club. He was a member of the staff at the Schneck Memorial Hospital and was, at the time of his death, the oldest member of the Tri-County Medical Association.
Contributor: Bonita Taylor Welch (46776974) • [email protected]
November 16, 1961
Dr. Dennis William Matthews, 80, who had practiced medicine for 58 years, 52 here is Jennings county, died Tuesday night at 11:30 p.m. at the hospital in Seymour. He had been a patient there for 12 days, after having suffered a stoke.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the First Baptist Church in North Vernon. Rev. A. E. Lacy, Jr., pastor, will be in charge of the services, with Dr. W. H. Dillard, former pastor of the church, to assist in the services. Burial will be in the Vernon Cemetery.
Dr. Matthews is survived by his wife, Mae; a son, Clyde, present North Vernon postmaster and former state senator; two daughters, Mrs. William Callaway and Miss Geneva Matthews, both of Commiskey, Route 1; five grandchildren; three brothers, Fred of Seymour, Sherman of Scottsburg, and Gilbert of Underwood; and two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Haines of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and Mrs. Donna Clemmer of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In a personality sketch that first appeared in October of this year in this paper, Mrs. Ruth Smith wrote: "There are no words adequate enough to express the love and respect which many of us have for our family physician. In many cases, he not only cures our bodily ills, but does so much to bring order out of chaos to our mental upheavals. such a man is Dr. D. W. Matthews, practicing physician." There were many, many families in Jennings county whose lives or lives of loved ones had been touched by this kind gentleman who echoed similar words to Mrs. Smith's when they heard the sad news that this beloved physician was gone.
Dr. Matthews was born in Washington county in 1880. He originally started in the business world, attending and graduating from a business college in Louisville in 1889. The following year, however, he entered the Hospital Medical College of Louisville (now University of Louisville) and graduated from there in 1903. His first office was in Hardinsburg. In 1909, he moved to Commiskey in Jennings county and practiced there until 1927, when he moved here to North Vernon. He practiced from his office here from that time right up to when he suffered his stroke.
It was characteristic of him that on the day he first became ill, he had seen 33 patients. He delivered nearly 3,000 babies in his many years of practice, and most of these were home deliveries.
He was a man who gave freely of himself to others, and many were the sick visits he made in his early years of practice that found him riding on horseback a distance of 15 miles or more to get to the patient.
Dr. Matthews was active in his church, the First Baptist Church, and he was a past deacon of the church. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Odd Fellows, Scottish Rite, North Vernon Chamber of Commerce and Muscatatuck Country Club. He was a member of the staff at the Schneck Memorial Hospital and was, at the time of his death, the oldest member of the Tri-County Medical Association.
Contributor: Bonita Taylor Welch (46776974) • [email protected]
North Vernon Plain Dealer
November 16, 1961
Dr. Dennis William Matthews, 80, who had practiced medicine for 58 years, 52 here is Jennings county, died Tuesday night at 11:30 p.m. at the hospital in Seymour. He had been a patient there for 12 days, after having suffered a stoke.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the First Baptist Church in North Vernon. Rev. A. E. Lacy, Jr., pastor, will be in charge of the services, with Dr. W. H. Dillard, former pastor of the church, to assist in the services. Burial will be in the Vernon Cemetery.
Dr. Matthews is survived by his wife, Mae; a son, Clyde, present North Vernon postmaster and former state senator; two daughters, Mrs. William Callaway and Miss Geneva Matthews, both of Commiskey, Route 1; five grandchildren; three brothers, Fred of Seymour, Sherman of Scottsburg, and Gilbert of Underwood; and two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Haines of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and Mrs. Donna Clemmer of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In a personality sketch that first appeared in October of this year in this paper, Mrs. Ruth Smith wrote: "There are no words adequate enough to express the love and respect which many of us have for our family physician. In many cases, he not only cures our bodily ills, but does so much to bring order out of chaos to our mental upheavals. such a man is Dr. D. W. Matthews, practicing physician." There were many, many families in Jennings county whose lives or lives of loved ones had been touched by this kind gentleman who echoed similar words to Mrs. Smith's when they heard the sad news that this beloved physician was gone.
Dr. Matthews was born in Washington county in 1880. He originally started in the business world, attending and graduating from a business college in Louisville in 1889. The following year, however, he entered the Hospital Medical College of Louisville (now University of Louisville) and graduated from there in 1903. His first office was in Hardinsburg. In 1909, he moved to Commiskey in Jennings county and practiced there until 1927, when he moved here to North Vernon. He practiced from his office here from that time right up to when he suffered his stroke.
It was characteristic of him that on the day he first became ill, he had seen 33 patients. He delivered nearly 3,000 babies in his many years of practice, and most of these were home deliveries.
He was a man who gave freely of himself to others, and many were the sick visits he made in his early years of practice that found him riding on horseback a distance of 15 miles or more to get to the patient.
Dr. Matthews was active in his church, the First Baptist Church, and he was a past deacon of the church. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Odd Fellows, Scottish Rite, North Vernon Chamber of Commerce and Muscatatuck Country Club. He was a member of the staff at the Schneck Memorial Hospital and was, at the time of his death, the oldest member of the Tri-County Medical Association.
Contributor: Bonita Taylor Welch (46776974) • [email protected]
November 16, 1961
Dr. Dennis William Matthews, 80, who had practiced medicine for 58 years, 52 here is Jennings county, died Tuesday night at 11:30 p.m. at the hospital in Seymour. He had been a patient there for 12 days, after having suffered a stoke.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the First Baptist Church in North Vernon. Rev. A. E. Lacy, Jr., pastor, will be in charge of the services, with Dr. W. H. Dillard, former pastor of the church, to assist in the services. Burial will be in the Vernon Cemetery.
Dr. Matthews is survived by his wife, Mae; a son, Clyde, present North Vernon postmaster and former state senator; two daughters, Mrs. William Callaway and Miss Geneva Matthews, both of Commiskey, Route 1; five grandchildren; three brothers, Fred of Seymour, Sherman of Scottsburg, and Gilbert of Underwood; and two sisters, Mrs. Nancy Haines of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and Mrs. Donna Clemmer of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
In a personality sketch that first appeared in October of this year in this paper, Mrs. Ruth Smith wrote: "There are no words adequate enough to express the love and respect which many of us have for our family physician. In many cases, he not only cures our bodily ills, but does so much to bring order out of chaos to our mental upheavals. such a man is Dr. D. W. Matthews, practicing physician." There were many, many families in Jennings county whose lives or lives of loved ones had been touched by this kind gentleman who echoed similar words to Mrs. Smith's when they heard the sad news that this beloved physician was gone.
Dr. Matthews was born in Washington county in 1880. He originally started in the business world, attending and graduating from a business college in Louisville in 1889. The following year, however, he entered the Hospital Medical College of Louisville (now University of Louisville) and graduated from there in 1903. His first office was in Hardinsburg. In 1909, he moved to Commiskey in Jennings county and practiced there until 1927, when he moved here to North Vernon. He practiced from his office here from that time right up to when he suffered his stroke.
It was characteristic of him that on the day he first became ill, he had seen 33 patients. He delivered nearly 3,000 babies in his many years of practice, and most of these were home deliveries.
He was a man who gave freely of himself to others, and many were the sick visits he made in his early years of practice that found him riding on horseback a distance of 15 miles or more to get to the patient.
Dr. Matthews was active in his church, the First Baptist Church, and he was a past deacon of the church. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Odd Fellows, Scottish Rite, North Vernon Chamber of Commerce and Muscatatuck Country Club. He was a member of the staff at the Schneck Memorial Hospital and was, at the time of his death, the oldest member of the Tri-County Medical Association.
Contributor: Bonita Taylor Welch (46776974) • [email protected]
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