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Dr William Osgood Myers

19 Aug 1929 – 22 Aug 2015

Birth19 Aug 1929
Death22 Aug 2015
CemeterySunset Memorial Gardens
Hastings , Adams County , Nebraska , USA
Added byCurtB on 26 Aug 2015
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Dr. William O. Myers, 86, Marshfield WI, passed away on August 22, 2015. A celebration of his life will be held at 1:00 pm, Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 1st Presbyterian Church, Marshfield, with Rev. Dr. Kevin Buchanan officiating. A visitation will be held on Saturday at the church from 11:30 am until the time of the service. Burial will be in Sunset Memorials Gardens cemetery, Hastings, Nebraska, at 11:00 am Saturday, September 5, 2015. Hansen-Schilling Funeral Home is assisting the family. Bill was born on August 19, 1929, in Hastings, Nebraska, the son of Joy and Lena (Osgood) Myers. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Hastings College in 1951 in chemistry and biology, with additional emphases in English, mathematics, and German, and then from Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago in 1955. He was united in marriage to Lois Mae Payne on December, 26 1952. Following their marriage, they lived in Chicago while Bill attended medical school and Detroit where he completed his internship and anesthesiology training before moving to Virginia for service in the Air Force at Langley Air Force Base. At Langley he served in anesthesiology and general practice as Captain from 1957 - 1959 and as Major in the Reserves from 1959 - 1970. Following the two years of active Air Force service they moved to Blue Hill, Nebraska, for Bill's general practice, then to Yankton, South Dakota, where he received his general surgery training studying with the renowned surgeon, Dr. Chester Bidwell McVay. He completed his cardiovascular and thoracic surgical training at Kansas University Medical Center in 1968. In July, 1968, he became the 80th physician at the Marshfield Clinic where he practiced surgery until 1999. He then turned his services to Director of the Internal Review Board for the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation from 2000 - 2003 and continued on the Board until 2007. At Marshfield he also served as Chief of the Department of Surgery, Chairman of the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Section, Clinical Associate Professor for the University of Wisconsin Medical School, and Clinical Professor for the Department of Surgery. Bill saved many lives and provided a higher quality of life for many through his surgery, and was appreciated greatly for his caring bed-side manner. His achievements reached well beyond his own practice, authoring/coauthoring 115 scientific publications and inventing several techniques in heart surgery. One of Bill's great loves was the Coronary Artery Surgical Study that he headed for some twenty-five years. The findings of that study proved a critical contribution to the future treatment of heart disease.Bill loved music, the arts, technology, animals, his north woods cabin, and of course his family. He was a long time member of the Marshfield Civic Band and the musical groups at UW-Marshfield/Wood County, playing trombone. He was named a Music Legend by the University in 2007. He was a self-taught computer programmer, writer, poet, carpenter, and an unbeatable chess player - a veritable Renaissance man. Bill is survived by his wife of 62 years Lois, his sister Iva Mae Ruckman, and five children Jessica Myers (Wendell Mauter), Wendell Myers (Pamela Howland), Inez Myers (Carl Sonnenberg), John Myers (Linda DiUlio), and Michal Myers (Diane Cargill), along with their "adopted" German exchange student son, Thomas Klenner. Bill is also survived by grandchildren Andrea, Julia, Liz, John, Annie, Josh, Bailey, Ted, Will, Crystal (Josh Hemann), Zach, and great grandchildren Melia and Juniper. He is preceded in death by his five brothers Malvern, Wendell, Donny, Lowell, and Robert, sister Dolores, and granddaughter Catherine. Memorial contributions can be made to First Presbyterian Church, Marshfield, the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, or Hastings College. Marshfield News Herald Aug 27 2015

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