Dr. George E. Montgomery (1917-2012)

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Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 7/31/2012 at 19:26:23

From Adams & Soderstrum Funeral Home obituary, Story County, Iowa:

Dr. George E. Montgomery

BORN: July 3, 1917

DIED: April 15, 2012

LOCATION: Ames, Iowa

The family of Dr. George E. Montgomery joins to inform you of his death on April 15, 2012, at Israel Family Hospice House after a brief illness. He died as he lived, quietly, and surrounded by family. He was 94 years old.
George was born on July 3, 1917 in Boone Iowa to Ruth Crooks Montgomery and George E Montgomery. Throughout his early years he assisted his father in the hog and sheep trading business. He attended Boone schools through high school.
He attended the University of Minnesota both as an undergraduate and for medical school. He did an internship in internal medicine at Milwaukee County General Hospital. Rather than step immediately into the private practice of medicine, he enlisted in the United States Army 82nd Airborne Division. He served as a combat doctor in the WW II European Theater of Operations, including parachuting into Normandy on D-Day. When the war ended he married Arline Weston, and they enjoyed sixty years together. After finishing a residency in Cardiac Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, he was invited to join the fledgling McFarland Clinic. He accepted, and he and Arline made Brookridge Avenue in Ames, Iowa their home for the rest of their lives. There they raised three children: Mary, George and Jo.
Doctor Montgomery was a caring physician and truly devoted to his medical practice. As well as his work at McFarland Clinic, he and Arline volunteered many hours over many years to Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa. The Montgomerys spent 1970 and 1971 working at a medical missionary hospital in KwaZulu, South Africa. Their work there was so appreciated and they made a host of international friends.

Dr. Montgomery retired from McFarland Clinic in 1982, with the plan of establishing an orchard on a woodland in Boone County. He planted the trees, but retirement didn't suit him. He went back to work as a primary care physician in the Mesquakie Health Center in Tama, Iowa, for a dozen years.

In 1996 the opportunity arose to be Medical Director at the Health Care Center of Northcrest Retirement Community. This he accepted, and in 1997 also became the Medical Director for the Health Care Center at Green Hills. He loved his work at these two centers where he was often taking care of patients he had known since his McFarland Clinic days.

He continued in this work until he was 93 years old. In his dedication to service he has inspired his family and friends. He was great companion. He had the enviable skill of remembering a joke on the spot for every turn of a conversation, and being able to tell it well. He was always an educator, always gentle, never losing his temper. He was happy to hear the latest adventures of his children, grandchildren and their friends. He expected the best from everyone.

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