Mar 27 2008
Guy Stark Saffold I
Dr Guy Saffold was the son of James Phillips Saffold.
Obituary from the Washington Post, February 28, 1938
Dr. Saffold, 57, D. C. Specialist, Dies at Home
Veteran of War Medical Service Had Been Ill Several Months.
Dr. Guy Stark Saffold, 57, prominent ear, nose and throat specialist, and veteran of the World War medical service, died yesterday at his home, 9127 Thornhill road, Silver Spring, Md. He had been ill several months. Dr. Saffold had practiced in Washington and Maryland more than 30 years. A native of Montgomery County, Md. he was graduated from George Washington University medical school in 1904.
Guy Saffold
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He became associated with Dr. J. J. Richardson and later went abroad for postgraduate study in London, Berlin and Vienna. In recent years Dr. Saffold had been a member of the staff at the Episcopal Hospital. He conducted private practice, with offices at 1726 I street Northwest. During the World War Dr. Saffold held commission as captain in the Army Medical Corps. He served in France at an A. E. F. evacuation hospital from August, 1918, to April, 1919. An enthusiastic golfer, Dr. Saffold was a member of the Washington Golf and Country Club, the Congressional and Columbia Country clubs. He also was a member of the District and other medical societies.
Lenore Saffold
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He leaves his wife, Mrs. Lenore Reach Saffold; three children, Guy Stark Saffold, Jr., Rosemary Linthicum Saffold and Virginia Reach Saffold, of Silver Spring; a brother, Ray Phillips Saffold, El Paso, Tex., and a sister, Mrs. H. F. Sommers, of Hong Kong. Funeral arrangements had not been completed last night, but the burial will be in Arlington Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers will be Karl R, Lesh, Dr. A. W. Valentine, Dr. J. Russell Verbrycke, Jr.. Dr. F. X. McGovern. Dr. Harry F. Anderson, Dr. J. C. Bradley, Dr. B. L. Jarman. Richard Engel, and W. Parker Jones.
Captain Guy Stark Saffold and his wife Lenore Reach Saffold are buried side by side in Arlington National Cemetary. Upon entering the cemetery on Memorial Drive, turn left at the “T” onto Eisenhower Drive, right onto McCLellan Drive, and finally left onto Grant Drive. The graves are in section 7 not far the road.
I never knew my grandfather, but Lenore was our “Ganny” — no doubt my child’s version of “grandmother” — and much-loved.