Obituaries: Dr. Ralph J. Talbot, 1987, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 22, 1987 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Dr. Ralph J. Talbot

Services for Dr. Ralph J. Talbot of Monroe, La., were held Tuesday, July 7, at
St. Paul's United Methodist Church with burial following in Monroe Memorial
Park Cemetery.

Dr. Talbot, 80, died Saturday, July 4, 1987 at St. Francis Medical Center in
Monroe after a short illness.

He was a native of Dodson, La., and the younger son of the well known 
physician, Dr. B. H. Talbot of Ruston, La.  He was predeceased in 1982 by his
wife, the former Ishmael Lee "Kitty" Crain, a Winn Parish native.

Dr. Talbot was the first pediatrician in Monroe.  He was past president of the
La. State Pedeatric Association and he was also a member of the La. State
Medical Society, American Medical Society, American Medical Association,
Southern Medical Assocation, and Ouachita Parish Medical Society.

He had received the Axon-Choppin Award in 1966 for his work in Public Health,
and he had worked for many years in the Crippled Children's Hospital in
Monroe.

He was a graduate of the Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, served his
internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, and his residency at Children's
Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Nancy Talbot Hemrick, and four
grandchildren, all of Monroe; also a sister, Miss Lillian Blair Talbot of
Monroe, and a half-sister, Mrs. Mary Beth Busbee of Duluth, Ga.

Pallbearers included his nephew, Don R. Gaar, of Victoria, Texas, and Dr. W.
C. Cookston of Monroe, also a Winn Parish native, was an honorary pallbearer.

His brother, Edmond E. Talbot, Sr., a prominent New Orleans attorney, died in
New Orleans July 7, 1987, the day of Dr. Talbot's funeral services.

Mrs. Roy Gaar of the Gaars Mill Community accompanied her sons, Jack Gaar of
Winnfield and Don R. Gaar with his family from Victoria, Texas, and Mrs. Earl
(Bobbie Sue) Gaar of Bernice, La., to funeral services in Monroe for her late
sister's husband, Dr. Ralph J. Talbot.