Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Van Valkenburgh, Wood G., 1979 

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WOOD GRIFFITH VAN VALKENBURGH

CAPT. VAN VALKENBURGH, NAVY PHYSICIAN, MED SCHOOL PROFESSOR

   POTOMAC, MD - Navy Medical Corps Capt. Wood Griffith Van Valkenburgh, 46, 
head of the rheumatology branch of the Internal Medical Service at the 
National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, died Tuesday in his home.  He was 
also a staff physician at the center and an associate professor of medicine 
at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Services Medical School 
in Bethesda.

   A native of East Orange, N.J., he was the husband of Mrs. Ellen Ellis 
Thomas van Valkenburgh and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul van Valkenburgh of 
Suffolk, Va.

    Capt. Van Valkenburgh, who lived in the Tidewater area a number of years, 
graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Medical College of 
Virginia. He interned at the Bethesda center and completed his residency in 
Philadelphia and Richmond.  He was also a diplomate in the American College 
of Physicians, specializing in internal medicine with a sub-specialty in 
rheumatology.

   A former staff physician at Portsmouth, Va., Naval Hospital, he also served 
as general medical officer on the Tutuila from 1960 to 1962.  At the time of 
his death he was president of the District of Columbia Rheumatism Society.  He 
was a member of the Oratorio Society of Washington, D.C., and was a serious 
student of classical music and an accomplished pianist in addition to being a 
choral singer.  He was a member of Christ Church of Rockville and a member of 
its choir.

   Other survivors include a daughter, Miss Elizabeth Carter van Valkenburgh, 
of the home.

   A funeral will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in Christ Church, 109 S. 
Washington St., Rockville.  Burial will be at 4:30 p.m. in Cedar Hill 
Cemetery, Suffolk, with R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home in charge.  Memorial 
donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or the Arthritis 
Foundation.


Capt. Wood Griffith VAN VALKENBURGH, 
USN Medical Corps physician & medical researcher, 
East Orange, NJ native, d. 21 Aug 1979, at home, Potomac, MD, age 46, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 23 Aug 1979, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

*Lot not specified; his parents are buried in Block H, Lot 40. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_v.txt 

His Find a Grave Memorial (#94141925) gives Section [i.e., Block] Y. 


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