Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....LEDBETTER, ROY H.  JR.  December 12, 2006
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News Star Wrold - December 17, 2006
DR. ROY H. LEDBETTER, JR. 

Kilpatrick Funeral Home Monroe, LA 

A memorial service for Dr. Roy Harrison Ledbetter, Jr. will be he held at 3:00 
P.M., Tuesday, December 19, 2006 at First Presbyterian Church of Monroe with 
the Reverend Dr. Allison Moody officiating. A reception will follow in the 
Fellowship Hall. Dr. Ledbetter was born on June 23, 1925 in Bessemer, Alabama 
and died on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at Stoney Brook Assisted Living 
Facility after a lengthy illness. Dr. Ledbetter was raised in Birmingham, 
Alabama where he attended Phillips High School. He loved sports, and lettered 
in football, basketball, and track. For years, he held the Alabama state high 
school records in the long jump and high hurdles. He graduated from Birmingham 
Southern College, where he was a member of the Omega Delta Kappa leadership 
and scholastic fraternity, and the Kappa Alpha social fraternity. He then 
attended Tulane University Medical School, where he earned academic honors and 
was elected to the AOA fraternity. He was also a member of Phi Chi social 
fraternity. After earning his M.D. degree, Dr. Ledbetter served his country as 
a medical officer in the United States Navy, including a one year stint in a 
M.A.S.H. unit during the Korean War. He returned to New Orleans to complete 
his orthopedic residency at Tulane University Medical School. In 1955, he 
moved to Monroe to join Dr. Faheam Cannon in the private practice of 
orthopedic surgery. They later joined with Dr. Frank Cline to found The 
Orthopedic Clinic of Monroe. In addition to his private practice, Dr. 
Ledbetter worked regularly for many years at the State of Louisiana 
Handicapped Children's Clinic in Monroe. From 1979 to 1985, he worked part-
time at E.A. Conway Hospital, caring for the orthopedic patients, and teaching 
orthopedics to family practice and surgery resident physicians. In 1985, he 
retired from his private practice to serve full-time on the orthopedic 
clinical and teaching staff at E.A. Conway for the next five years. Dr. 
Ledbetter spent countless hours on the sidelines providing medical care for 
local football teams, especially Ouachita High School, ULM and Grambling State 
University. Dr. Ledbetter served as President of the Louisiana State 
Orthopedic Society, and was a member of the Mid-American Orthopedic Society, 
Clinical Orthopedic Society, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Ouachita 
Parish Medical Society, and several others. Dr. Ledbetter was a member of 
First Presbyterian Church of Monroe, where he was an elder and a member of the 
Board of Trustees. He also taught Sunday school and sang in the choir. He was 
a past president of the YMCA. He was a member of Bayou Desiard Country Club, 
where he served on the Board of Directors, including Tennis Chairman for many 
years. Dr. Ledbetter had many hobbies and interests. He was an accomplished 
woodworker, and built many beautiful pieces of furniture. He loved snow- 
skiing, golf, tennis, hunting, and water sports. He played third base and 
pitcher for his church softball team well into his fifties. No matter how busy 
he was, he rarely missed athletic events of his children and grandchildren. 
Dr. Ledbetter was preceded in death by his parents, Roy H. Ledbetter, Sr. and 
Mamie Joe Reid Ledbetter, of Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Ledbetter is survived by 
his beloved wife of 53 years, Helen Frances Land Ledbetter; four children, Dr. 
John Land Ledbetter and his wife Dee McDonald Ledbetter of Monroe, the 
Reverend Dr. Anne Reid Ledbetter and her husband, Keith McGowan of Wilmington, 
Delaware, Lee Harrison Ledbetter and partner, Douglas John Meffert of New 
Orleans, Louisiana and Roy Norwood (Woody) Ledbetter of Hackberry, Louisiana; 
grandchildren, Evans McGowan, Lea McGowan, McDonald Ledbetter, Land Ledbetter, 
Mary Reid McGowan, Harrison Ledbetter, Jenny Ledbetter, Rachel Ledbetter, 
Preston Magouirk, and Lee Magouirk. He is also survived by his brother Reid 
Ledbetter and his wife Diane Wiggins Ledbetter of Grosse Ile, MI, and his 
sister Jane Ledbetter Northcutt of Birmingham, Alabama and by beloved nieces 
and nephews. The family would like to thank the staff of Stoney Brook 
Alzheimer's Care Assisted Living and Hospice Care of Louisiana for their care 
of Dr. Ledbetter. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First 
Presbyterian Church of Monroe, 71201 Stubbs Avenue, Monroe, LA 71201.

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