WISE, James H.

WISE, EASTON, POGGENKLASS, PHIPPS

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 2/22/2007 at 11:41:20

Cherokee Daily Times, February 1982

Dr. James H. Wise, 84, of 1602 N. Roosevelt Ave., Cherokee, died Monday at Sioux Valley Memorial Hospital. He was a life-time resident of Cherokee County.

He was born April 16, 1897, in Washta to Mr. and Mrs. Kearney Wise. On Feb. 24, 1925, he married Inez Easton in Cherokee. Dr. Wise was educated in the Washta school system, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, and graduated from the University of Iowa Medical School in 1921. He took his residency at Receiving Hospital in Detroit, Mich., after which he entered practice in Cherokee in 1924.

He was a member of the staff of Sioux Valley Hospital, Cherokee; Buena Vista County Hospital, Storm Lake, and the Baum-Harmon Memorial Hospital in Primghar. Dr. Wise was a member of the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons. He was founder of the Cherokee Clinic and had acted as team doctor for all sports in the local high schools. He was a veteran of World War I and was a member of the Cherokee Country Club.

Survivors include a son, Dr. James K. Wise, Fort Collins, Colo.; daughters, Mrs. John (Mary Margaret) Poggenklass and Mrs. Nate (Virginia) Phipps, both of Cherokee; 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his wife.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. The Rev. A.E. McCoy will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. A rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Greenwood Funeral Home.