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This article is about Marshall E. Stine, M.D. a 1940 graduate of La Harpe High School who was born Feb. 15, 1923, died April 14, 1999, a dear husband, father and a loved and respected family physician:submitted by his widow, Kay Stine.
Dr. Marshall Stine
Marshall Stine, only son of Mildred Thompson Stine and Cleo Stine, was born in his grandmother's house, the Estelle Thompson home in LaHarpe, only recently passing out of family ownership.
He attended elementary and high school in LaHarpe.
When his wife, Kay, first met him in Bradley University in Peoria where he was in the premed program, she said Marshall was very attached to his hometown and all the aunts, uncles, and cousins who lived nearby, gathering at his grandmother's almost every weekend.
The local doctor (B.I. Mueller) was his inspiration for choosing a medical career.
For the last year of undergrade and the first two years of the University of Louisville Medical School he was a Navy man. In l946 he married Olive K. Keyes (called "Kay") of Peoria, and completed medical school in 1949.
Marshall received his BS degree from Bradley University, with a semester spent at Depaul University while in the Navy, and obtained his MD degree from the University of Louisville Medical School.
During his first two years there he was in the Navy V12 program. At the end of his sophomore year, World War 2 ended, and he secured a discharge from the Navy.
His first and only practice was, for 39 years, in Bremen, Indiana with two fondly regarded medical associates.
One after fifteen years, had to leave because of his entrance into politics, and who became a two-term governor of Indiana, Otis R. Bowen, MD, now retired in Bremen.
The other associate doctor retired in l989 at the same time as Marshall.
Marshall served two years as a flight surgeon in the Air Force during the Korean conflict. He volunteered for service rather than being drafted as was the possibility at that time. His tour of duty kept him in the United States. After being discharge he and Kay returned to Bremen.
He practiced all 39 years of his professional life in Bremen, IN, just outside of South Bend.
He was influential in the founding and enlarging of the Bremen Community Hospital, the smallest licensed hospital in the state, while being on the boards of the three largest hospitals in South Bend, IN.
He became, like the La Harpe physician who inspired him (Dr. Mueller) a much beloved "family doc.," treating three generations of many local families.
Marshall and Kay had three children: Curtis Clarke Stine, MD, live with wife and two daughters in Austin,TX., Kathryn Elizabeth Philion, husband and three children live in Nashua NH., and Bradley Dale Stine youngest son is in a medical business in Tampa, FL.
Their five grandchildren, two Stines and three Philions, are the youngest generation.
Marshall was seriously interested in medicine, and in keeping abreast of all the changing practice of it.
He was a leader in their church, and always interested in every accomplishment of their capable children.
He clung to his LaHarpe family, Grandmother Estelle Thompson; his mother, Mildred Clarke; his aunt, Elizabeth Thompson, and all of his cousins who many times seemed to him more like brothers and sisters.
As to other interests, Marshall, having grown up across the road from the LaHarpe golf course, was a life-long lover of golf. As his practice grew, he had less and less time to play. Through the years Kay recalls most of their vacations included golf, which she also enjoyed playing. The couple retired to a long-owned Florida condo.
"In this beautiful paradise called Naples, we played golf in retirement for almost ten years with great enthusiasm," Kay said.
Marshall died in Naples in April of 1999. Kay says, "I still receive letters, praising him, from many of the patients he treated so carefully during his 39 years as a Family Practice doc. He was, in fact, one of the original fellows in the Academy of Family Practice."
Kay can be reached by writing at 523 Bentley Dr., Naples FL 34110.
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The late Dr. Marshall Stine and wife Kay Stine of Florida |