Smith County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Eby, Florence LeVerne ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Pam Slaughter slaughters1@sbcglobal.net July 20, 2016, 9:18 pm Cemetery: Smith-Eby Cemetery Name: Florence LeVerne Eby Date Of Photograph: April 28, 2012 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/smith/photos/tombstones/smitheby/eby10986nph.jpg Image file size: 185 Kb 1921 - 1948 Florence LeVerne Eby, M.D. In loving memory of the beloved daughter of Samuel H. and Eva Mae Eby and the sister of Joyce Louise Eby Dr. Eby was born November 13, 1921 She completed her early schooling in Tyler Texas in 1940 and her pre-medical education at the University of Texas in 1942. She enrolled the same year at Loyola School of Medicine in Chicago. Under the heavy pressure of the war era she graduated in 1945 with high honors at the remarkable age of 23 years. Following an internship at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y. she served residencies in Willard Parker Hospital and the post graduate hospital of New York City and was certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners. Preceding her untimely death, she was planning to enter medical practice in her chosen field of internal medicine in her home city of Tyler, Texas. On March 7, 1948, while enroute to the mountains for a few hours of recreation at skiing, Dr. Eby was instantly killed in a tragic automobile accident in New York State. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/txfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb