Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Elder, Thomas David, Sr., MD February 4, 2019
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Virginian-Pilot February 7, 2019
Dr. Thomas David Elder, 87, died February 4, 2019, after a long battle with 
Alzheimer's. He was the son of the late Thomas Althauser Elder and Louise 
Burnham Sargeant Elder. He is survived by his wife, Johanna Bouldin Paul Elder 
and his daughters, Peyton Elder Manley (Tommy), granddaughters, Kaitlin and 
Caroline; Martha Elder Wallace (John), granddaughters Meredith and Jessie; Katie 
Elder Bagay (Martin) and granddaughters, Anne and Johanna, grandson, John 
Bouldin. He was predeceased by his son, Thomas David Elder Jr. (Tom). David 
Elder earned a Bachelor of Science from Duke University in 1954 and a Bachelor 
of Arts in 1955. He received his medical degree from Duke University School of 
Medicine, Durham, North Carolina in 1957, where he received the Alpha Omega 
Alpha Honor Medical Society Award. He completed his internship and residency 
program there and was Chief Resident in Medicine at Duke Hospital. Upon the 
completion of a Rheumatology Fellowship at Duke, David spent two years as a 
Research Fellow at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of 
the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He then served on the 
faculty of the Duke University School of Medicine and was a postgraduate fellow 
in medical research for two years, until 1965 when he entered practice in 
Norfolk, Virginia. He practiced Rheumatology and Internal Medicine for 32 years 
until his retirement in 1997. David's career included being one of the founding 
doctors of the Norfolk Diagnostic Clinic and also serving as an Associate 
Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School from 1975 to 1980. David was an 
avid reader; he loved fishing, boating and family vacations at the beach; he 
loved playing tennis with his group, watching Duke Basketball, and spending time 
with friends and neighbors. He will be remembered for his quick wit and humor, 
broad smile and big blue eyes, but mostly for his love of his children and his 
wife of 61 years. Please join the family for a Memorial Service at Christ and 
St. Luke's Episcopal Church on Saturday, February 9th, at 3pm, followed by a 
Reception at Norfolk Yacht and Country Club. In lieu of flowers, memorial 
contributions may be made to Duke University School of Medicine, Alzheimer's 
Research at www.brightfocus.org/stopAD or to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at 
www.CFF.org. Finally, the family is most grateful for the compassionate care of 
David in his last years by Geneva Fallis. Online condolences may be shared with 
the family at www.hdoliver.com

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