Obituary: Dr. F.C. Ainley Is Taken By Death
Dr. Frank C. Ainley, pioneer Los Angeles obstetrician and gynecologist, died early today at Good Samaritan Hospital of a cerebral thrombosis, climaxing several weeks illness. He was 61.
Dr. Ainley was born in Perry, Iowa, and was educated at Drake and Johns Hopkins Universities in the United States and at Berlin and Vienna. He was'elected to Phi Beta Kappa, undergraduate scholastic honor society and to honorary medical fraternities.
Settling in Los Angeles in 1910 he was among the first western physicians to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology, and lived to see a sharply falling curve in maternal and infant mortality.
He was a charter member of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Medical Association, the California Medical Association and the Los Angeles County Medical Association.
He served for many years as staff obstetrician of Good Samaritan Hospital. Dr. Ainley leaves a widow, Mrs. Charlotte Turford Ainly of 444 South Commonwealth avenue, four brothers, one sister and a niece.
Funeral arrangemens had not been completed today.
Obituary: Dr. F.C. Ainley Is Taken By Death
Dr. Frank C. Ainley, pioneer Los Angeles obstetrician and gynecologist, died early today at Good Samaritan Hospital of a cerebral thrombosis, climaxing several weeks illness. He was 61.
Dr. Ainley was born in Perry, Iowa, and was educated at Drake and Johns Hopkins Universities in the United States and at Berlin and Vienna. He was'elected to Phi Beta Kappa, undergraduate scholastic honor society and to honorary medical fraternities.
Settling in Los Angeles in 1910 he was among the first western physicians to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology, and lived to see a sharply falling curve in maternal and infant mortality.
He was a charter member of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Medical Association, the California Medical Association and the Los Angeles County Medical Association.
He served for many years as staff obstetrician of Good Samaritan Hospital. Dr. Ainley leaves a widow, Mrs. Charlotte Turford Ainly of 444 South Commonwealth avenue, four brothers, one sister and a niece.
Funeral arrangemens had not been completed today.
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