Services were held today for Dr. P. Jorda Kahle, famed urology teacher, who died yesterday.
He was 71.
Funeral rites were held at Lau-dumiey Funeral Home, 1225 N. Rampart, and burial followed in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.
He is survived by Mrs. Kahle, the former Aimee Sandox, and four children, Dr. H. Reichard Kahle, Mrs. F. W. Gleason, Jr., Mrs. Jules Jordy and Mrs. Co-rinne Allen.
Dr. Kahle, who lived at 5525 Webster, was a former head of the department of urology at LSU's Medical School and was often called one of the founders of the state medical school.
He was also ranked as one of the nation's leading urology experts.
RETIRED IN 1953
Dr. Kahle retired from the LSU School of Medicine faculty Sept. 23, 1953, thus ending a teaching career which spanned better than half a century.
He began teaching at Tulane in 1902 as an instructor in romance languages.
Successively he has served as instructor in urologic surgery, assistant professor of urology and professor of urology at Tulane.
In 1931 he was named head of the department of urology at LSU's then newly created School of Medicine.
At the time of his appointment, Dr. Kahle was also chief of the Urological Service at Charity Hospital and associate urologist at Baptist Hospital.
He was also known as one of the pioneers in the use of spinal analgesia in abdominal and pelvic surgery in the South.
MANY ORGANIZATIONS
Besides being a fellow in the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Kahle was also a member of the American Medical Association, Louisiana State Medical Society, Orleans Parish Medical Society, Southern Medical Association and the American Urological Association.
The son of Herman and Nisida Kahle, Dr. Kahle was born in New Orleans in 1882 and graduated from Tulane with a B. S. in 1902. He received his M. D. in 1905.
He was also a member of the following college fraternities: Kappa Alpha Order; ALpha Kappa Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa.
