Dr. Sullivan

Dr. Margaret Patricia Sullivan will be laid to rest Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 12:30 PM at Garden of Memories Cemetery. Visitation will be held at 11 AM on March 14, 2015 at Grimes Funeral Chapels. She passed away March 4, 2015 at the Forum in Houston where she had lived for the past few years. Born in Lewistown, Montana, to Mabel and William A. Sullivan on February 7, 1922, the family later moved to Houston, Texas and in 1932 to Kerrville. She graduated from Tivy High and Schreiner Institute with highest honors. Continuing her education, she graduated from Rice University with highest honors and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Choosing to enter the field of medicine, she obtained her medical degree from Duke School of Medicine and was later named as the first woman to be honored as Distinguished Alumnus.\r\n \r\nAfter completing her residency and internship in pediatrics, she was chosen to be a member of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and lived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, for two years. Dr. Sullivan then was asked to join the staff at M.D. Anderson in Houston and help develop the Pediatric Clinic 1956 where she stayed until her retirement.\r\n \r\nHer honors and awards include past president of American Medical Women's Association, 1983 president of Business and Professional Women of Texas, 1985 American Leukemia Society Service to Mankind Award, and 1986 Ashbel Smith Professor Pediatrics Award.\r\n \r\nDr. Sullivan has written and co-authored more than 100 articles in medical journals and abstracts of her writings have been published around the globe. She made presentations to three International Symposia, twice to the International Congress of Hematology and once to the International Congress of Pediatrics. Her other interests included travel, archaeology, ornithology, photo1graphy, music, nature and needlework.\r\n \r\nShe was preceded in death by her sister, Betty Strohacker of Kerrville and a brother, William A. Sullivan, Jr. of Richardson and is survived by two sisters, Cornelia Garrison of Houston and Louise Thorp of Belton, Texas and many nieces and nephews.\r\n \r\n[contact-form-7 id="73" title="Send Condolences"]