Funeral services for Dr. Raw-ley M. Penick Jr., internationally known surgeon, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at his residence, 1329 Seventh. Canon W. S. Turner, rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, will officiate.
Interment will be in Metairie Cemetery.
Dr. Penick died at 9:50 p. m. Thursday at Touro Infirmary after being admitted for treatment of an apparent heart attack.
A native of Charlotte, N. C, he was a graduate of Isidore Newman School,- and earned his Ph.B. at Yale University and his M.D. in 1924 at Johns Hop kins University.
He was an intern at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md.«, from 1924 to 1925, and then became assistant resident in pathology from 1926 to 1930, and at the same time was, assistant surgical resident. SENIOR IN SURGERY DEPT.
Between 1927 and 1932 he was instructor in surgery at the hospital, and from 1930 to 1931 he was resident surgeon.
He returned to Louisiana and from 1937 to 1942 was visiting surgeon, Louisiana State Uni-versity unit _at. Charity Hospital in New Orleans, and from 1939
to!942 was clinical professor of surgery tor the LSU Medical School.
In 1942 he became a staff member of the Ochsner Clinic department of surgery. The next year he became senior visiting
fessor of clinical surgery, Tu-lane Medical School (1948-1960). ACTIVE IN MANY GROUPS Dr. Penick was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the following organizations:
Southern Surgical Association, American Surgical Association, Orlean Parish Medical Society, Louisiana State Medical Society, American Medical Association, American Society for Vascular Surgery, The Surgeons Club, j Orleans Surgical Society of which he was a past president; board member and past president of the Greater New Orleans unit of the American Cancer Society, past president of the Ochsner Clinic staff, and a member of the board and past president of the Louisiana division of the American Cancer Society.
Dr. Penick was certified by the American Board of Surgery in 1939.
He was a Delta Phi, and a member of the Pithotomy Club (Baltimore).
surgeon at Charity and in 1946 he became senior in the department of surgery at Touro Infirmary. He held these positions at the time of his death. Other positions he held included visiting surgeon, Tulane
'ONE OF MOST EMINENT'
Described by an associate as one of "the world's most eminent surgeons," Dr. Penick was a general surgeon who specialized in abdominal surgery.
He was a member of the Boston, Louisiana and Recess dubs.
Survivors include his widow, the former Marie Sells; a son, William Sydnor Penick; two daughters, Miss Elizabeth C. Penick and Mrs. Suzanne Penick Harbison; one sister, Mrs. Joseph M. Jones, and two grandchildren, all of New Orleans.
Active pallbearers will be William B. Wisdom, Lon West, Neil Himel, Macy 0. Teetor, Dr. Alton Ochsner, Dr. Ambrose H. Storck, C. C. Crusel and Dr. Merrill 0. Hines.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Ben Evans, Dr. John Riddler, Robert M. Parker, Lucius K. Burton, W. E. Penick, Dr. George Bass Grant, Dr. Edgar Burns, Dr. Guy A. Caldwell, Dr. Boni James DeLaureal, Donald H. Halsey, H. Stanley Butterworth, Fort Pipes Sr., Dr. Robert C. Lynch, Dr. John B. Blalock, Dr. Dean H. Echols, Frank M. Harbison Srr, Dr. M. E. Lapham, and Dr. Francis E. LeJeune Sr.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by the House of Bult-man, 3338 St. Charles. PHOTO: DR. RAWLEY M. PENICK
