George Barklie Johnston 1908-1967

JOHNSTON, ROSS, CALLWELL

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/9/2013 at 18:37:29

Death Takes Dr. G.B. Johnston
Dr. G.B. Johnston, 58, died Thursday [February 23, 1967] shortly after 4:30 p.m. of a coronary thrombosis while alone at his office. He was found a few minutes after he had collapsed from a heart seizure.

He had known for several months that he was suffering from heart disease.

Dr. Johnston began practice as a physician and surgeon in Estherville in 1939, and for a number of years was associated with Dr. J.P. Clark.

George Barklie Johnston was born Aug. 2, 1908, in Estherville, in the same house in which he has made his home, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Johnston. Mrs. Johnston was the former Annie Eleanor Callwell.

After graduation from Estherville High School in 1926 he attended Estherville Junior College two years, and then went to the University of Iowa, where he studied medicine. In school here he was an outstanding athlete.

He was a member of Kappa Sigma social fraternity and Phi Beta medical fraternity. He took his internship at Anker Hospital, St. Paul, after study at Lakeside Maternity Hospital at Cleveland.

He later took special work under Dr. P.C. Jeans at Iowa City, he was a Fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and took work in urology and dermatology at Polyclinic, New York City.

He was married Dec. 28, 1941, in Estherville to Heloise Ross, by whom he is survived. There are two sons, Jay, a student in the graduate school of business at Dartmouth, and Robert, who is a junior in the undergraduate college at Stanford, and a daughter, Shelley, who is a freshman at Mills College, Oakland, Calif. His parents predeceased him.

Dr. Johnston was a member of the Masonic and Elks lodges and was a Shriner. He found recreation largely in water activities at the Johnston’s summer home on Lake Okoboji.

Services have been tentatively arranged for Monday at Fuhrman Funeral home, pending expected arrival today of the sons and daughter. There will be Masonic services Sunday at 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, February 24, 1967)