Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....Winchester, Millard E. December 24, 1960 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 January 12, 2006, 9:33 pm 24 December 1960; The Brunswick News; pg. 3 col. 2 Dr. Winchester Dies at Hospital After Long Illness; Heal Director Won National Fame for Work Dr. Millard E. Winchester, 87, who gained national distinction for his work as Glynn County health commissioner, died today at the Brunswick hospital. Death was attributed to circulatory ailments which became increasingly severe in the past three weeks and had their origin in a heart attack suffered five years ago. He was conscious and recognized friends and member of the family a short time before his passing at 1:50 a.m. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at the First Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. Charles A. Jackson, Jr., pastor. Gibson-Hart- Durden Funeral Home is in charge. “Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings,” Dr. Winchester once observed, adding, “Money spent wisely to save the lives and promote the health of our own people is not wasted.” His work under this philosophy brought national recognition for both him and Glynn County. One of his first major programs here was in carrying out a fight against syphilis in the three-county area of Glynn, McIntosh and Camden counties. The work started under a national grant as a pilot program directed by Dr. Leroy E. Burney, who later became surgeon general of the U.S. Dr. Winchester was credited with making the program work. A feature article in Collier’s Magazine in 1937 told how Dr. Winchester adopted a salesman’s technique in winning the cooperation of Negroes when the “bad blood wagon,” as the syphilis unit was named, rolled around. This work paid dividends in public health such as in dramatic reduction of the area’s rate of stillbirths, a common result of venereal diseases. During World War II, Dr. Winchester’s department maintained an exemplary public health record for Glynn despite influx of thousands of temporary residents under difficult conditions. In 1946 he was elected president of the Georgia Public Health Association. At that time it was recognized that Glynn County in the previous 10 years had won five consecutive awards for the most outstanding public health program throughout the United States. Dr. Winchester was born in Flint, Ga., reared in Moultrie, attended Gordon Institute, Riverside Academy and Emory University, and after practicing briefly in Ochlochnee and serving a hitch in the Army during World War I, began his public health work in Thomas County. After studying at Johns Hopkins on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship, he was loaned in 1934 by the Georgia State Board of Health to Glynn County for a year. He remained here for the rest of his life. A few years ago with the reorganization of the state health service on a regional basis, Dr. Winchester was named district director of public health, for Glynn and adjacent counties. Dr. Winchester was made administrator of the old City Hospital in addition to his other duties in 1949 and was in this capacity during the construction and opening of the new Brunswick hospital. He won his first award in health conservation contests of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Public Health Association in 1935, 1936, 1941, 1942, and 1943. He was diplomat of the American Board of preventative Medicine and Public Health, a fellow in the American College of Physicians and American Public Health Association, a member of the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the Tropical Medicine Society, the American School Physicians Association, and president of the Glynn County Medical Society from 1937-41. He was a past president of the Kiwanis Club, a charter American Legion member, and a member of the Elks Lodge. He recently was made a life member of the American Social Hygiene Association. He was listed in Who’s Who in America. Survivors are his wife, the former Ruth Evelyn Dixon, whom he married in 1917; a daughter, Mrs. William T. Jones, Atlanta; two granddaughters, Mrs. Melvin Maloy and Miss Susan Winchester, Brunswick; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Mattie Oxford, Tallahassee, Fla.; and a brother, Frank Winchester, Sebring, Fla. Active pallbearers will be announced later. Honorary pallbearers will be Paul Morton, Hubert Lang, Sr., Arthur Huston, Joe Lambright, C.H. Sheldon, Ralph Hood, Paul Killian, Richard Gould, Norman Way, Dr. John Hightower, Dr. E.R. Jennings, Dr. B.A. Addison, Dr. Haywood Moore, Dr. J.B. Avera, Phil Ringel, S. Hadley Brown, Sidney Boswell, Alfred Jones, J.D. Compton, Harry D. Parker, I.M. Aiken, Dave Gordon, Joe Owens, Ralph McCrary, H.J. Friedman, A.M. Harris, Charles Bruce, Nathan Brown, Ed Bruce, Alvin Powell, J.M. Exley, city and county commissioners, members of the Elks Club, members of the Kiwanis Club, McIntosh and Camden County commissioners. NOTICE TO ELKS Members of the Elks Lodge will meet at 10:15 a.m., Monday to attend the funeral of Dr. Winchester. Hubert Lang, Jr., Exalted Ruler. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at www.glynngen.com or the sister site at www.rootsweb.com/~gaglynn/ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/obits/w/winchest3601gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb