Ryan, Dr. George C.

RYAN, TABOR

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 4/26/2007 at 09:54:37

Funeral rites held Friday(September 8, 1941) for local physician.
Business houses close in final tribute to Dr. Geo. C. Ryan.
Scores of relatives, friends and members of the medical profession from throughout the middle-west attended the funeral services in the Congregational Church here at 2 p.m., Friday for Dr. George C. Ryan, Maquoketa physician and surgeon.
The Rev. Frances C. Snyder, pastor of the local First Congregational Church conducted the services, assisted by the Rev. Thomas E. Horton of the local Episcopal Church, which followed a half hour of prayer at the residence. Burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Business establishments and professional offices closed from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Friday for the funeral. Members of the Maquoketa Rotary Club, of which Dr. Ryan was president, served as honorary pall bearers, with pall bearers being Herman C. Stange, Arthur J. Hodgson, H.M.Wareberg, Harold D. Keeley, Wayne F. Browning and Frank G. Carson, officers of the organization.
Dr. Ryan was graduated with highest honors from the University of Iowa Medical College with the class of 1920 and served his internship in the Northern Pacific Railroad Hospital in Missoula, Montana. His first practice was established at Lost Nation, later becoming a resident surgeon at Elyria, Ohio. He came to Maquoketa in 1928.
Dr. Ryan was born in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, October 23, 1894, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ryan of Maquoketa. He attended the public schools, being graduated with the class of 1913. His marriage to Miss Mildred Tabor was an event of June 14, 1922.
Dr. Ryan was active in local civic life, being president of the Maquoketa Rotary Club until the time of his death. He was affiliated with Timber City Post No. 75 of the American Legion, a life long Mason, Chamber of Commerce member, secretary of the Jackson County Medical Society and district counselor for the Iowa Medical Association.
Survivors include his widow and one daughter, Miss Georgia; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ryan of this city; one brother, T.J.Ryan of Kankakee, Ill.; and six sisters, Mrs. Caro V. Phillips, Mrs. F.G.Simpson, Miss Ann Ryan, and Miss Mary Ryan, all of Maquoketa; Mrs. Lawrence Georgen and Mrs. J.W.Gannett, both of Chicago, Illinois.
(Jackson Sentinel, September 9, 1941.)