OBIT: Proudfoot, Warren - 1991 - Rowan Co, KY

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Contributed by: Louis M. Stewart Jcarter725@aol.com
Date: June 15, 1999
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The Courier-Journal  Louisville, KY
Copyright 1991

Tuesday, September 3, 1991

NEWS

WARREN PROUDFOOT, UK PROFESSOR AND MOREHEAD PHYSICIAN, DIES
ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOREHEAD, Ky. -- The funeral for Dr. Warren H. Proudfoot, a
professor at the University of Kentucky and president of Cave Run
Clinic in Morehead, will be held tomorrow.

Proudfoot, 70, died of cancer Saturday at UK's Albert B.
Chandler Medical Center.      He was a clinical professor of surgery
at UK.

Proudfoot, a native of Talbott Community, W.Va., had been
chairman of the Rowan County Board of Education since 1973 and
chairman of the board of the Markey Cancer Center in Lexington.

He came to Morehead in 1963 as chief of surgery at St. Claire
Medical Center.      Before that, Proudfoot, a graduate of Harvard
Medical School, had served in the Navy in World War II and had worked
for the U.S. Public Health Service for 18 years.


He was a former president of the Kentucky School Boards
Association, and he was a member of committees of the National School
Board Association.

His survivors include his wife, Winifred Fogg Proudfoot; four
sons, Wendell Proudfoot of Okemos, Mich., Dr. Martin Proudfoot of
Edmonds, Wash., Dr. Richard Proudfoot of Morehead, and Dr. Glenn
Proudfoot of Richmond; three brothers, three sisters and eight
grandchildren.

The funeral will be at 4 p.m. tomorrow at Morehead's First
Church of God, with burial in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Visitation at Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals after 8 a.m. today.

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