OBIT: John Coulter GOURLEY, 1943, Windber, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN C. GOURLEY

  Dr. John Coulter Gourley, aged 73 years, one of Windber's most prominent 
citizens and successful physicians, died Monday morning, May 16, following a 
brief illness.  He was graduated from the school of medicine of the Western 
University of Pennsylvania, in 1904, and for 28 years had been roentgenologist 
and obstetrician at Windber Hospital.
  Dr. Gourley received his early education at Covode Academy, the Pennsylvania 
State Normal School at Indiana and Pennsylvania State College.  He taught school 
for a number of years prior to entering medical school.  He practiced medicine 
in Marion Center and Heilwood in Indiana County before locating at Windber in 
January, 1915.
  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Myra (Park) Gourley, and four children - Martha, 
wife of Dr. R. S. Baylor, Waynesboro, Pa.; Mary Jane, a teacher in the Windber 
schools; Dr. George Park Gourley, United States Army, Stewart Field, West Point, 
N.Y., and Dr. John Coulter Gourley, Jr., United States Navy, Navy Yard, 
Philadelphia.  He is survived by one sister, Miss Jennie Gourley of 
Punxsutawney, and one brother, Herbert, of Whittier, Calif.  He also had two 
half-brothers, Roy of Indiana, and Max, of Punxsutawny, and five grandchildren.
  Funeral services for Dr. Gourley were conducted at 11 o'clock Wednesday 
morning in the Windber Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. Raymond Powell officiating.  
Interment in Richland Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, May 27, 1943