Hejtmancik obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Name, date of obit, date submitted, submitted for the USGenWeb Archives by: Hejtmancik, Milton R., Dr. 24 Jun 2002 Jun 2002 Don Johnson Hejtmancik, Myrtle McCormick 15 Jul 2009 Jul 2009 Jerry Nelson *************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star on: 6/24/2002 HEJTMANCIK, DR. MILTON R. League City, Texas - Milton R. Hejtmancik, M.D., a retired physician and medical educator, died June 21, 2002, in League City, Texas, due to complications from Parkinson's Disease. The funeral will be at Jack Rowe Funeral Home, League City, Tuesday at 1 p.m. He will be buried Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Greenlawn Cemetery in Hammond. Born Sept. 27, 1919 in Caldwell, Texas, he was the son of Rudolph J. and Millie Hejtmancik. Survivors include his wife, Myrtle McCormick Hejtmancik of Hammond; his three children by the late Myrtle Lou Erwin, Dr. Kelly E. Hejtmancik of Galveston, Dr. Milton R. Hejtmancik Jr. of Dublin, Ohio, and Dr. Peggy Taylor of League City; a sister, Grace Ward of Grand Junction, Colo.; eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He graduated from Giddings High School in 1935 and received a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1939. Following the fellowship in physics at the University of Texas, he received his medical degree from UTMB at Galveston in 1943. He completed his internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital in 1944 and residency in Internal Medicine at UTMB in 1949. He served as a captain in the U.S. Medical Corps in 1944-46 including 18 months in the European Theater. He completed his board certification through the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1951 and the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease in 1963. At UTMB in Galveston, he served in the internal medicine department as an instructor in 1949-51 and as assistant professor in 1965-1980. He was also a professor of internal medicine at the Texas A&M University in Temple, Texas, in 1980-81; cardiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Temple, Texas, in 1980-81, and cardiologist and medical director at the Veterans Administration Clinic in Beaumont, Texas, in 1981-85. UTMB appointments included chief of staff, assistant director and director of the Heart Station. He was a consulting cardiologist for the USPHS and St. Mary's Hospital in Galveston and the Mainland Hospital in La Marque, Texas. He published numerous papers, articles in books and a slide series from research activities conducted in the Heart Station, Heart Clinic and wards of UTMB hospitals in the fields of electrocardiography, vector cardiography echo cardiography, cardiac drugs and clinical cardiology. He was a medical adviser for Social Security and the local examiner for the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease for several years. He served on many committees at UTMB and on the board of directors of the Galveston Medical Foundation and for Galveston County. Memberships in scientific societies included the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Cardiology, Council on Clinical Cardiololgy, and the American Heart Association. He served various positions in the American Federation for Clinical Research, the American Heart Association, Galveston County Medical Society, American Medical Associator, Texas Academy of Internal Medicine, Texas Academy Chapter of the American College of Physicians, Charles T. Stone Society of Internal Medicine, the American Association of University Professors and the Texas Club of Cardiologists. He was a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Mu Delta Medical Fraternity and Sigma Xi. He has numerous listings in Who's Who (South and Southwest, Science, America, World, as well as in Frontier Science and Technology, American Men of Science, American Men of Medicine. He received the Billings Gold Medal at the AMA annual scientific meeting in New York in 1973, for his pioneering work in Echo cardiography and received the Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumnus Award at UTMB in 1991. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations to the American Heart Association. *************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge): 7/15/2009 HEJTMANCIK, MYRTLE McCORMICK Myrtle McCormick Hejtmancik, 91, a resident of Baton Rouge and a former longtime resident of Hammond, died Tuesday, July 14, 2009, at Ollie Steele Burden Manor. She was born Monday, Jan. 14, 1918, in Baton Rouge. Myrtle was formerly an investigator for the Louisiana Department of Hospitals with four years of service and a clerk for the Louisiana State Enrolling Room in Baton Rouge with six years of service. She was a member of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce for more than 35 years and served on the board of Seventh Ward General Hospital from 1972-1977, having served as chairman of the board from 1973 to 1975. Myrtle was active in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, serving as vice president and president, and awarded the Jefferson Davis Award. She was also inducted into the Hammond Hall of Fame. Surviving are her son and daughter-in-law, Clyde M. Jr. and Rose Cutrer; grandson and his wife, Clyde III and Stephanie Cutrer; granddaughter and her husband, Tracey and Freddy Dietz Jr.; grandson and his wife, Kris and Faith Hilbun (to whom she was legal guardian of); Joyce Cutrer, mother of Clyde and Tracey; granddaughters, Ashley and Jamie LeDoux; and great- grandchildren, Christie and Chase Cutrer, Shelby, Madison and Noah Griffin, Grace Dietz, Austin and Dallas Hilbun, Elizabeth Hammock and Camerin Wester. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Milton Hejtmancik; daughter, Debbie Wood; parents, Emile and Mabel Gray McCormick; sister, Mary Louise Ellis; and brothers, Emile and Cotton McCormick. Friends will be received at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home, Hammond, on Wednesday, July 15, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Thursday, July 16, from 8 a.m. until service at the funeral home chapel at 11 a.m., with the Rev. Jim Lancaster officiating. Interment in Greenlawn Cemetery, Hammond, LA 70401. An online guest book is available at www.harrymckneely.com. *************************************************************************** File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/tangipahoa/obits/obitssur/hejtmancik.txt