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Dr Gean Sterling Atkinson

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Dr Gean Sterling Atkinson

Birth
Stella, Newton County, Missouri, USA
Death
13 Sep 1960 (aged 55)
Blytheville, Mississippi County, Arkansas, USA
Burial
Blytheville, Mississippi County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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Published in Blytheville Courier News, Blytheville, Arkansas, September 14, 1960.

Services for Dr. Gean S. Atkinson, 55, will be conducted at 2:30 tomorrow at Howard Funeral Service Chapel. Dr. Atkinson died yesterday in the Blytheville Hospital from a heart attack. The Rev. J. C. English will officiate with burial in Elmwood Cemetery.

A graduate of Kansas City College of Medicine and Surgery, Dr. Atkinson interned at Kansas City General Hospital and did post graduate work at the University of Oklahoma. Before entering private practice, he was the director of the U.S. Public Health Services in Muskogee, Okla., and Longview, Texas. In 1933, he began his practice of medicine in Hardy, Ark. In 1936 he moved to Manila. He had practiced in Blytheville for the past 19 years. A member of the Arkansas and American Medical Societies, he was a Mason and a Shriner and a member of the Methodist church.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Eunice Brook Atkinson; and one son, Gean Brook Atkinson; his mother, Mrs. Mary Sappington, Oklahoma City; two brothers, Dr. O. L. Atkinson, Hot Springs and Dr. George S. Atkinson, Oskaloosa, LA; and three sisters, Mrs. L. O. Wheeler and Mrs. William Bunch, both of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. John East, Miama, AZ.

Pallbearers will be E. F. Still, E. M. Regenold, Oscar Fendler, Connell Miller, Bill Steinsiek, Dan Burge, and Harry Kirby.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Mississippi County Medical Society.

Gean Sterling Atkinson was the son of William Madison Atkinson and Mary Poindexter Barnett Atkinson.

Gean S. Atkinson married Eunice Estelle Brook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Brook, on February 13, 1933 by Rev. J. W. Ham at the First Methodist Church in Pineville, MO.
Published in Blytheville Courier News, Blytheville, Arkansas, September 14, 1960.

Services for Dr. Gean S. Atkinson, 55, will be conducted at 2:30 tomorrow at Howard Funeral Service Chapel. Dr. Atkinson died yesterday in the Blytheville Hospital from a heart attack. The Rev. J. C. English will officiate with burial in Elmwood Cemetery.

A graduate of Kansas City College of Medicine and Surgery, Dr. Atkinson interned at Kansas City General Hospital and did post graduate work at the University of Oklahoma. Before entering private practice, he was the director of the U.S. Public Health Services in Muskogee, Okla., and Longview, Texas. In 1933, he began his practice of medicine in Hardy, Ark. In 1936 he moved to Manila. He had practiced in Blytheville for the past 19 years. A member of the Arkansas and American Medical Societies, he was a Mason and a Shriner and a member of the Methodist church.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Eunice Brook Atkinson; and one son, Gean Brook Atkinson; his mother, Mrs. Mary Sappington, Oklahoma City; two brothers, Dr. O. L. Atkinson, Hot Springs and Dr. George S. Atkinson, Oskaloosa, LA; and three sisters, Mrs. L. O. Wheeler and Mrs. William Bunch, both of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. John East, Miama, AZ.

Pallbearers will be E. F. Still, E. M. Regenold, Oscar Fendler, Connell Miller, Bill Steinsiek, Dan Burge, and Harry Kirby.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Mississippi County Medical Society.

Gean Sterling Atkinson was the son of William Madison Atkinson and Mary Poindexter Barnett Atkinson.

Gean S. Atkinson married Eunice Estelle Brook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Brook, on February 13, 1933 by Rev. J. W. Ham at the First Methodist Church in Pineville, MO.


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