Hawaii County HI Archives News.....DR. L. L. SEXTON RETIRES April 1940
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UNKNOWN NEWSPAPER April 1940
  Dr. L. L. Sexton, physician for the Hilo Sugar Plantation Company for the 
past thirty eight years, has announced his plans to retire effective May 1st.
  Born in Indianola, Iowa in 1878, Dr. Sexton started his pre-medical training 
at the University of Washington in 1900 and received his medical degree from 
the University of California in 1907. He was serving his internship at the 
Southern Pacific Railway Hospital in Sacramento, Calif. When he accepted a 
position at the Queens Hospital in Honolulu as resident physician and arrived 
in the Hawaiian Islands in February 1908.
  Less than a year later he came to the Big Island to serve as physician at 
Hakalau replacing Dr. Archie Irwin (brother of Judge Harry Irwin). During the 
one year he spent at Hakalau, he traveled the Hamakua coast in a buggy or rode 
horseback on trails performing surgery and delivering babies on kitchen tables 
under the light of kerosene lamps.
  Leaving Hakalau, he substituted for Dr. Putnam at Kauai for three weeks and 
there met and soon married the former Miss Emily Rice.
  In 1910 young Dr. Sexton and his bride arrived in Hilo where he set up his 
private practice and became government physician. A year later he started his 
long association with Hilo Sugar and his record speaks for itself. He has 
never lost a mother during the forty odd years of delivering babies, and 
chuckes, “Very few fathers!”
  Last year the Masonic Lodge conferred upon Dr. Sexton the 33rd Degree, the 
highest honor in Masonry. Probably the truest tributes to his life work, 
though are the high respect and esteem his friends and patients hold of him in 
his deep devotion to the medical profession which he has contributed so 
unselfishly.
  Dr. and Mrs. Sexton are leaving Hilo this month and will make their future 
home in Santa Barbara, California. With them go the deepest appreciation and 
sincerest Aloha from the employees and families of Hilo Sugar Plantation 
Company. The absence of the familiar shingles of Sexton and Sexton on 
Waianuenue Ave. will be a great loss to all of us.


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