Remembering people who worked in medicine
| Forward this to a friend Subscribe to more newsletters |  | | Dr. William Angell, left, is pictured here in The St. Petersburg Times on Nov. 21, 1991. [via Newspapers.com] | | What's up doc? | | Growing up, I remember walking around with my dad — at the grocery store, the mall, school functions — and how often people stopped us because they wanted to introduce their kids to him. Actually, they wanted to reintroduce their kids to him because my dad was the doctor who’d delivered them. We all leave ripples, no matter what we do. But people who work in medicine often leave big ones. That's true this week with the latest obituary I wrote on Dr. William Angell, a physician who brought pioneering heart procedures to Tampa Bay. You can read more about him here. Plus: Below are three more obits I've written about people who work in medicine. |  | | Tamara Jackson was one of just a few women to enter dentistry in the late 1960s. She practiced in St. Petersburg and later was a professor at Temple University College of Dentistry. [Courtesy of Holly Ewell-Lewis] | | Dr. Tamara Jackson | | Dr. Tamara Jackson was St. Petersburg's first Black female dentist. She taught other women who worked in medicine to put their work in perspective. | | In 1980, when Mendee Ligon and her husband moved to St. Petersburg to practice dentistry, she met Jackson. They became friends and went dancing in their cute shoes. "I remember very vividly what Tammy told me when I first met her because it put me on notice," said Ligon, who was the first Black woman in St. Petersburg to own her own dental practice. "She said, 'Don't think you're all of that.' We were odd. We were in a profession that was mostly populated by men. We stood out. She was trying to tell me to stay humble." | |  | | After visiting clothing stores in downtown St. Petersburg, Dorothy Brown was asked to begin modeling. Mrs. Brown, also a nurse, maintained her license for 25 years after she stopped practicing. [Courtesy of Stephanie Brown Gilmore] | | Nurse Dorothy Brown | | Dorothy Brown worked several official and unofficial jobs during her lifetime. She was a model, helped integrate her neighborhood, church and school, and worked as a nurse. | | Mrs. Brown spent her life proving she could do what people said she could not — getting an advanced education, integrating the neighborhood school, then a prestigious community. And she and her husband did it ... without showing their children the strain of fighting to be treated as equals. | |  | | Dr. Albert Tawil, left, helps a patient onto an exam table in the summer of 2005. The doctor never wore scrubs and believed in dressing up for his patients. He owned 150 neckties. [Times (2005)] | | Dr. Albert Tawil | | In his early 80s, Dr. Albert Tawil continued working from his office as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world. He believed his elderly patients needed something they couldn't get remotely. | | Medicine changed drastically over the course of his career, from house calls to electronic medical records. Dr. Tawil did not change. The 83-year-old wasn't ready to retire or to leave his patients in the care of doctors on computer screens. That was his job. "You have to believe in what you do," he told the Tampa Tribune in 2005, "believe you're here to save people, and you're here to basically serve. You need to take care of your patients." | | | This week's obits | | Here are some obituaries from the past week that I found in the obits section of the Tampa Bay Times, in the news and from local funeral homes. If you see any with great details, please share them.
• Martha Morey, 91, of St. Petersburg "was lovingly referred to as the 'missionary lady' or the 'missionary to missionaries.'"
• Robert Jackson, 69, of St. Petersburg "served in the U.S. Navy, and worked as a fire fighter for the City of St. Petersburg."
• Dr. Henry Cacciatore, 86, of Tampa "was also an avid hunter, a Harley rider, a golfer, a welder and even piloted his own plane. He loved photography, made wine, played the accordion as well as the mandolin and, together with his wife Lorna, travelled the world over their 62 years of marriage. Henry's achievements were many but perhaps his greatest was being able to finish knowing that he had nothing left on his bucket list."
• Michael Hartley, 67, of Apalachicola "would grow up loving Corvette's and fishing. Some college classes were left in order to invent a seafood processing system. It is for this invention that he holds a US patent."
Thanks for reading, hug your people,
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