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Dr. Helen F. Craig
Services for Dr. Helen F. Craig, 82, 100 Village Lane, the first medical doctor to limit her practice to pathology in Idaho, who died Tuesday morning in a local nursing home, will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in Summers Chapel with the Rev. Dr. Frank Rearick officiating. Cremation will follow.
Dr. Craig was born June 14, 1883, at Viroqua, Wis. Her grandfather was Jeremiah Mclain Rusk, who was governor of Wisconsin from 1882 to 1889 and served as secretary of agriculture under President Benjamin Harrison from 1889 to 1893.
Her family moved to Asheville, N.C., when she was 15. She attended several universities in the South, taught chemistry at Auburn University and science at Asheville High School. She received her doctorate in medicine at Rush Medical Center after attending the University of Chicago.
She interned at the City-County Hospital, Denver, and became pathologist for three Denver hospitals, City-County, St. Joseph's and St. Luke's. She also operated her private laboratory in Denver.
Dr. Craig married Attorney James J. Sullivan in Denver in 1923 and gave up her professional career. Her husband preceded her in death in 1934. She was appointed pathologist at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise in 1935, at which time she resumed her professional name. She also was appointed pathologist at St. Alphonsus in 1937. In 1946, she started private practice and worked with Mrs. H. P. Irby at the Boise Clinical Laboratory. Dr. Craig was a member of the American College of Pathologists and contributed her professional knowledge during both World Wars I and II.
Surviving are a sister, Miss Charity Rusk Craig, El Segundo, Calif.; a niece, Miss Mary Louise Bell, Milwaukee, Wis., and a nephew, John Bell, Milwaukee.
The Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho) Dec 8 1965 - Page 18
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Dr. Helen F. Craig
Services for Dr. Helen F. Craig, 82, 100 Village Lane, the first medical doctor to limit her practice to pathology in Idaho, who died Tuesday morning in a local nursing home, will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in Summers Chapel with the Rev. Dr. Frank Rearick officiating. Cremation will follow.
Dr. Craig was born June 14, 1883, at Viroqua, Wis. Her grandfather was Jeremiah Mclain Rusk, who was governor of Wisconsin from 1882 to 1889 and served as secretary of agriculture under President Benjamin Harrison from 1889 to 1893.
Her family moved to Asheville, N.C., when she was 15. She attended several universities in the South, taught chemistry at Auburn University and science at Asheville High School. She received her doctorate in medicine at Rush Medical Center after attending the University of Chicago.
She interned at the City-County Hospital, Denver, and became pathologist for three Denver hospitals, City-County, St. Joseph's and St. Luke's. She also operated her private laboratory in Denver.
Dr. Craig married Attorney James J. Sullivan in Denver in 1923 and gave up her professional career. Her husband preceded her in death in 1934. She was appointed pathologist at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise in 1935, at which time she resumed her professional name. She also was appointed pathologist at St. Alphonsus in 1937. In 1946, she started private practice and worked with Mrs. H. P. Irby at the Boise Clinical Laboratory. Dr. Craig was a member of the American College of Pathologists and contributed her professional knowledge during both World Wars I and II.
Surviving are a sister, Miss Charity Rusk Craig, El Segundo, Calif.; a niece, Miss Mary Louise Bell, Milwaukee, Wis., and a nephew, John Bell, Milwaukee.
The Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho) Dec 8 1965 - Page 18
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