OBITUARY

Dr. Marvin Albert Berry

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.