Arthur Pemberton Burdon, Psychiatrist, Is Dead At 71
Times Picayune 06-16-1996

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Dr. Arthur Pemberton Burdon, a former psychiatry professor at the Tulane
University and Louisiana State University medical schools, died Friday of a
heart attack at his home. He was 71.

Dr. Burdon was born in St. Louis and lived in New Orleans for many years. He
received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Tulane and his psychiatric
training at Harvard Medical School.

He practiced psychiatry in New Orleans from 1960 through 1986 and was a
founder of the Burdon-Smith Clinic. He also was a clinical professor of
psychiatry at both Tulane and LSU medical schools.

From 1986 through 1994, he was medical director of the post-traumatic stress
disorders unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in New Orleans. From
1994 until his death, he was a psychiatric consultant for the state of
Louisiana. He was on staff at Touro Infirmary for 35 years.

Dr. Burdon was a colonel in the Army Reserve Medical Corps, a member of Mayor
Marc Morial's Military Advisory Committee, a senior elder in the Presbyterian
Church USA, a committeeman on the national and local boards of the
Presbyterian Church, on the board of directors of the YMCA, and a member of
the Order of St. Lazarus, several patriotic organizations, Carnival
organizations and civic and church groups.

Survivors include his wife, Jane Talmage Burdon; a son, John Arthur Burdon of
Albuquerque, N.M.; three daughters, Paula Harstad of Richmond, Va., Lois
Pendergrass of Mobile, Ala., and Susan Coleman; two sisters, Helen Burdon
Price of Grandview, N.Y., and Judith Burdon Lucky of Santa Barbara, Calif.;
and 11 grandchildren.

A funeral will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian
Church, St. Charles Avenue at State Street. Visitation will begin at 10 a.m.
Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.