Dr. George E. SCHNUG

SCHNUG, GATES, ROBERTS, BUTTERFIELD, PATERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/5/2006 at 02:15:44

Memorial service for Dr. George E. Schnug, 88, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Heritage Funeral Home. Dr. Schnug, a 57-year resident of Spokane, died Saturday. He was born in Dows, Iowa. He graduated from the University of Iowa Medical School in 1937 and completed his general surgery residency at Cincinnati General Hospital. He married Harriet Taylor in 1941. During World War II, Dr. Schnug served in the Army and was in charge of forming the surgical staff of the 24th General Hospital Army Unit. He established and operated general hospitals in France and Belgium and also landed on Utah Beach in France on July 29, 1944. He moved to Spokane after the war and began his surgical practice. He was chief of surgery at Sacred Heart Hospital for many years. Dr. Schnug had served as president of the Spokane Surgical Society, governor of the American College of Surgeons and president of the North Pacific Surgical Association. He also was a member of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, the Western Surgical Association and the International Society of Surgery.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Edward Schnug Jr. of Spokane; two daughters, Sarah Gates of Coeur d'Alene and Deb Roberts of Los Gatos, Calif.; two sisters, Margaret Butterfield of Haverford, Pa., and Marian Paterson of Northbrook, Ill.; eight grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation or Hospice of Spokane.

Spokesman-Review, The (Spokane, WA)
May 1, 2002