OBITUARY
Sept. 9, 1971
Funeral services for Dr.
Marvin Albert Berry, 31, will be held at 5 p.m. today in the Broadway Church of
Christ, Lubbock, with Dr. Henry E. Speck Jr., president of the Christian College
of the Southwest in Dallas, officiating. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park, Lubbock.
Dr. Berry died early
Wednesday in a Lubbock hospital after collapsing in his home.
A native Pampan, he was
graduated from Pampa High School in 1958. He
received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1963 from West Texas State
University, Canyon, where he was an honor student and received his doctor of
medicine degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in
Dallas in 1965. He did his
internship and residency in general practice at John Peter Smith Hospital, Forth
Worth, from 1965 to 1967.
He had practiced general
medicine in Pampa for a time before taking a teaching position on the staff of
the John Peter Smith Hospital, Fort Worth.
He moved to Lubbock in May of this year where he began a general
practice.
He was a member of the
staff of the Lubbock Methodist Hospital and St. Mary of the Plains Hospital in
Lubbock.
He was a charter member and
diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice and the American College of
American Physicians. He was a
member, also, of the American Academy of General Practitioners, the Texas
Academy of General Practitioners, and the American Medical Association.
He was married to Kathleen
Knox in Hereford on Dec. 27, 1966. In
Lubbock, he was a member of the Broadway Church of Christ.
He is survived by his wife,
Kathleen, of the home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Berry of Pampa; and a
brother, Dr. Don Berry of Jackson, Miss.