OBIT: Dr. John Rod Shacklette, d. 1954,  Jefferson Co., KY

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Submitted by: Pat45324@aol.com
Date: 12 Nov 2000
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Subject: obit - Shacklette -  July 31, 1954
Donated by Marion Small (smallrichm@aol.com) from "Aunt Mary's Scrapbook."

Dr. John Rod Shacklette was a general practitioner in the broadest sense.  In his long 
years of medical practice in Jeffersontown he handled everything form mumps to 
surgery.  In the early days he made his calls on horseback, often riding miles into 
the surrounding countryside to a patient.

He became something of an institution in the community, where he practiced until his 
retirement seven years ago.  Saturday, Dr. Shacklette, his strength drained by a heart 
ailment he had for 10 months, died at a hospital in Fond-du-Lac, Wis., at the age of 
66.

A native of Meade County, Dr. Shacklette gratuated from the University of Louisville 
Medical School in 1912.  During World War I he was a doctor with the 81st Wildcat 
Division and served 18 months overseas.  He came out of the Army a major.  He later 
became president of the Jeffersontown Bank and for a number of years was a member of 
the town's Board of Trustees.

Dr. Shacklette was a Shriner, past master of the Jeffersontown Masonic Lodge, a member 
of the American Legion, a Kentucky Colonel, a member of the Jefferson County Medical 
Society, the State group, and the American Medical Association.

During World War II, he served on a Jefferson County draft board.  He also was deacon 
of the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church here.

After his retirement in 1947 he spent his winters in Punta Gorda, Fla.  He had gone to 
Fond-du-Lac a month ago to visit a daughter Mrs. Lucille Dale. Other survivors re 
another daughter, Mrs. Martha Hemberger, Jeffersontown; three brothers, Albert 
Shacklette, Jeffersontown; Dr. Warren Shacklette, and Patch Shacklette, both of 
Louisville; three sisters, Mrs. Nell Brown, Brandenburg; Mrs. Cora Richardson, 
Louisville, and Mrs. Lillie Bruner, Ekron, Ky; and four grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday at the Meyers Funeral Home in Jeffersontown, 
with burial in Resthaven Memorial Park.