GROOM (Spc) - Services for Dr. John L. Witt, 71, an osteopathic physician who practiced here for 45 years will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Groom Church of Christ with Mr. Jack Outhier, minister, and Mr. Gaylord Cooke, minister of the Spearman Church of Christ, officiating.
Burial will be in Groom Cemetery by Smith Funeral Home of Panhandle.
Dr. Witt, who much of the time was the only doctor in town, died Monday in Claude.
Dr. Witt, born in Wheeler, was a graduate from the Kirksville (Mo.) College of Osteopathy and Surgery in 1934 and came to Groom the following year. As he remembered the occasion, he stopped in Groom when his car broke down.
He established his office in the U.S. 66 Hotel and later built a 16-bed hospital here. The hospital was doubled in size by subsequent additions and it continued to operate until Dr. Witt became ill last year.
In 1946, the Texas Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons named Dr. Witt the Outstanding General Practitioner of the Year, and he was president of the state association in 1956-57. He was recently named a life member of both the state and national Osteopathic associations.
The doctor also was honored in his home town, where a John Witt Appreciation Day was held April 28, 1968. The appreciation day was sponsored by the Groom Lions Club, of which he was a member.
He was an elder of the Groom Church of Christ.
He married Foris Helen Martin in 1937 at Groom.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Dr. Jan Dan Witt of Kansas City, Mo., and Jay Witt of Searcy, Ark.; a daughter, Lynell Witt Peak of Claude; a brother, C.B. Witt of Amarillo; four sisters, Mrs. Stella Carver and Mrs. Margaret Arnett, both of Amarillo, Mrs. Bonnie King of Austin and Miss Lita Witt of Dallas; and four grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to Westview Boys Home in Hollis, Okla., or High Plains Childrens' Home in Amarillo.
(Published in Borger News Herald, March 17, 1981)
OBIT FURNISHED BY EDITH GUYNES STANLEY
Burial will be in Groom Cemetery by Smith Funeral Home of Panhandle.
Dr. Witt, who much of the time was the only doctor in town, died Monday in Claude.
Dr. Witt, born in Wheeler, was a graduate from the Kirksville (Mo.) College of Osteopathy and Surgery in 1934 and came to Groom the following year. As he remembered the occasion, he stopped in Groom when his car broke down.
He established his office in the U.S. 66 Hotel and later built a 16-bed hospital here. The hospital was doubled in size by subsequent additions and it continued to operate until Dr. Witt became ill last year.
In 1946, the Texas Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons named Dr. Witt the Outstanding General Practitioner of the Year, and he was president of the state association in 1956-57. He was recently named a life member of both the state and national Osteopathic associations.
The doctor also was honored in his home town, where a John Witt Appreciation Day was held April 28, 1968. The appreciation day was sponsored by the Groom Lions Club, of which he was a member.
He was an elder of the Groom Church of Christ.
He married Foris Helen Martin in 1937 at Groom.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Dr. Jan Dan Witt of Kansas City, Mo., and Jay Witt of Searcy, Ark.; a daughter, Lynell Witt Peak of Claude; a brother, C.B. Witt of Amarillo; four sisters, Mrs. Stella Carver and Mrs. Margaret Arnett, both of Amarillo, Mrs. Bonnie King of Austin and Miss Lita Witt of Dallas; and four grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to Westview Boys Home in Hollis, Okla., or High Plains Childrens' Home in Amarillo.
(Published in Borger News Herald, March 17, 1981)
OBIT FURNISHED BY EDITH GUYNES STANLEY
GROOM (Spc) - Services for Dr. John L. Witt, 71, an osteopathic physician who practiced here for 45 years will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Groom Church of Christ with Mr. Jack Outhier, minister, and Mr. Gaylord Cooke, minister of the Spearman Church of Christ, officiating.
Burial will be in Groom Cemetery by Smith Funeral Home of Panhandle.
Dr. Witt, who much of the time was the only doctor in town, died Monday in Claude.
Dr. Witt, born in Wheeler, was a graduate from the Kirksville (Mo.) College of Osteopathy and Surgery in 1934 and came to Groom the following year. As he remembered the occasion, he stopped in Groom when his car broke down.
He established his office in the U.S. 66 Hotel and later built a 16-bed hospital here. The hospital was doubled in size by subsequent additions and it continued to operate until Dr. Witt became ill last year.
In 1946, the Texas Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons named Dr. Witt the Outstanding General Practitioner of the Year, and he was president of the state association in 1956-57. He was recently named a life member of both the state and national Osteopathic associations.
The doctor also was honored in his home town, where a John Witt Appreciation Day was held April 28, 1968. The appreciation day was sponsored by the Groom Lions Club, of which he was a member.
He was an elder of the Groom Church of Christ.
He married Foris Helen Martin in 1937 at Groom.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Dr. Jan Dan Witt of Kansas City, Mo., and Jay Witt of Searcy, Ark.; a daughter, Lynell Witt Peak of Claude; a brother, C.B. Witt of Amarillo; four sisters, Mrs. Stella Carver and Mrs. Margaret Arnett, both of Amarillo, Mrs. Bonnie King of Austin and Miss Lita Witt of Dallas; and four grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to Westview Boys Home in Hollis, Okla., or High Plains Childrens' Home in Amarillo.
(Published in Borger News Herald, March 17, 1981)
OBIT FURNISHED BY EDITH GUYNES STANLEY
Burial will be in Groom Cemetery by Smith Funeral Home of Panhandle.
Dr. Witt, who much of the time was the only doctor in town, died Monday in Claude.
Dr. Witt, born in Wheeler, was a graduate from the Kirksville (Mo.) College of Osteopathy and Surgery in 1934 and came to Groom the following year. As he remembered the occasion, he stopped in Groom when his car broke down.
He established his office in the U.S. 66 Hotel and later built a 16-bed hospital here. The hospital was doubled in size by subsequent additions and it continued to operate until Dr. Witt became ill last year.
In 1946, the Texas Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons named Dr. Witt the Outstanding General Practitioner of the Year, and he was president of the state association in 1956-57. He was recently named a life member of both the state and national Osteopathic associations.
The doctor also was honored in his home town, where a John Witt Appreciation Day was held April 28, 1968. The appreciation day was sponsored by the Groom Lions Club, of which he was a member.
He was an elder of the Groom Church of Christ.
He married Foris Helen Martin in 1937 at Groom.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Dr. Jan Dan Witt of Kansas City, Mo., and Jay Witt of Searcy, Ark.; a daughter, Lynell Witt Peak of Claude; a brother, C.B. Witt of Amarillo; four sisters, Mrs. Stella Carver and Mrs. Margaret Arnett, both of Amarillo, Mrs. Bonnie King of Austin and Miss Lita Witt of Dallas; and four grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to Westview Boys Home in Hollis, Okla., or High Plains Childrens' Home in Amarillo.
(Published in Borger News Herald, March 17, 1981)
OBIT FURNISHED BY EDITH GUYNES STANLEY
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