Obituary of Dr. Thomas J. McElhenney
(C. Avis Catalog entry #708)
(Document ID #350)
Austin Pediatrician Dies; Rites Pending
A longtime Austin pediatrician. died Wednesday on a six-week vacation in South America.
Dr. Thomas J. McElhenney, senior physician at Children's Clinic at 14th and Nueces, died in Rio de Janeiro of a cerebral hemorrhage, was 70.
Dr. McElhenney was second pediatrician lo practice in Austin when he came here 1933. With the help of the Junior League he began the first Well Baby Clinic in 1934.
He was born in Atlanta, Ga., and educated at the University of Alabama and Tulane Medical School. He began practice in Bessemer, Ala., in 1922 after service in the Army's Chemical Corps in WWI.
Dr. McElhenney was still active in the practice of pediatrics when he left for South America.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Travis County Medical Association and the Travis County Pediatric Association.
He had been past president of both the TCMA and the TCPA.
In 1960 he was a delegate to the White House Conference on Children and Youth. He was a deacon at University Presbyterian Church.
Survivors include his widow; a son Dr. T. R. McElhenney of Austin; a daughter, Mrs. L. B. Griffith of San Antonio; two sisters, Mrs. J. C. Murphy of Alabama and Mrs. F. W. Wheeler, of California, and seven grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Weed-Coriey Funeral Home.
Contributions may be made to the Betty Womack Fund, in care of the Travis County Medical Society.