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- Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - February 28, 1993
Deceased Name: FORMER HOSPITAL CHIEF DR. JOHN WILSON DIES
Dr. John McQuiston Wilson, a former chief of staff at Methodist Hospital and Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis, died at Baptist Memorial Hospital Friday after a long illness.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Idlewild Presbyterian Church, where he was an elder, with private burial in Elmwood. Canale Funeral Directors has charge.
Dr. Wilson received his degree in medicine from the University of Tennessee, Memphis, in 1937 and served his residency at the old John Gaston Hospital. He was certified by the American Board of Radiology in 1948. He was a member of the Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society, Memphis Roentgen Society, American Medical Association, Tennessee Radiological Society and Radiological Society of North America and a fellow of the American College of Radiology.
He was a lieutenant colonel in the Army Medical Corps in World War II, serving in the 225th Station Hospitals in North Africa and Italy.
He was active in the Presbyterian Medical Benevolence Foundation and was a member of Chickasaw Country Club.
Dr. Wilson, the husband of Margaret Drake Wilson, also leaves a son, Dr. James Wilson of Jackson, Tenn.; a sister, Leslie McGowan of Covington, Tenn., and a granddaughter. The family requests any memorials be sent to Idlewild Presbyterian Church or the charity of the donor's choice.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Date: February 28, 1993
Edition: Final
Page: A12
Record Number: 00059167
Copyright (c) 1993 The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN [3]
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