March/April - West Virginia State Medical Association

ObituariesThe WVSMA remembersour esteemed colleagues…Mildred Mitchell-Bateman,MD, PhDMental health pioneer and localicon Dr. Mildred Mitchell-Batemanpassed away January 25, 2012, froma short-term illness. She was 89.Mitchell-Bateman held manypositions during her career, includingvice president of the AmericanPsychiatric Association and directorof the psychiatry department at theMarshall University School of Medicine.In addition to her parents, PastorQuilliford Mitchell and Ella Mitchell, shewas preceded in death by her brother,Dr. Samuel Q. Mitchell; sister, DorothyDixon and husband, William Bateman.Dr. Mildred Mitchell-Batemanis survived by two daughters,Donna Taylor and DanielleShanklin; seven grandchildrenand ten great-grandchildren andseveral nieces and nephews.Thomas W. Crosby, MDDr. Thomas William Crosby ofMorgantown passed away Saturday,November 26 at the age of 70. He wasborn in St. Louis, Missouri, January 1941,the child of William Curtis and FrancisDoorley Crosby.He attended Saint Louis University ona swimming scholarship and later theUniversity of Pennsylvania, beforegraduating from West Virginia Universityin 1965. While at WVU, he met KerrWithrow and the two married in 1964. Hegraduated fro WVU School of Medicine in1970, the first doctor to complete aresidency in Neurology. Following thisresidency, he became an Alexander vonHumboldt Foundation fellow studyingNeuropathology at the University ofGöttingen, Germany. In 1975, he returnedto WVU School of Medicine in theDepartment of Neurology, attaining theposition of Associate Professor beforejoining Morgantown Internal MedicineGroup in 1981. He retired in 2009 becauseof his health.Tom is survived by Kerr, his wife of 47years, their children Katherine and EricChaffin of Rye, NY and Ethan andKathryn Crosby of Crofton, MD; twograndchildren, his brother Roger Crosbyof NY, his brother-in-law Edward Lindnerand nieces.He was preceded in death by his fatherand mother, William C. and Frances D.Crosby, his brother Michael Crosby andsister Ann Lindner.Raymond Lim, MDDr. Raymond Lim, a deeply respected,generous and beloved husband, fatherand grandfather, passed away January 17,2012, following a short illness.Raymond was born June 17, 1937, inManila, Philippines. He graduatedmedical school in 1961 at the University ofSanto Thomas in Manila. He married thelove of his life in 1962, and then moved tothe United States. He performed hisinternship in internal medicine, beginningat Albany Hospital in New York. He andhis family later moved to Chicago in 1972,where Raymond worked at Cook CountyHospital. He and his family eventuallysettled in Charleston, WV, where heinitially established a private practice. Forthe last 15 years he served as the chiefmedical consultant for the DisabilityDetermination Section.Raymond is survived by his wife,Ofelia.William Richard McCune, MDDr. McCune graduated from WestVirginia University in Morgantownand, in 1946, graduated from theMedical College of Virginia. Heserved in the United States NavyFollowing his Navy service, Dr.McCune practiced in Hedgesville,then later in Martinsburg. Hereturned to medical school atthe University of Maryland inBaltimore in 1960, and graduatedas a specialist in urology in 1964.In 1992 Dr. McCune joined theMartinsburg Veterans Administration toattend to patients with urologic problems.In addition to his parents, hewas preceded in death by onebrother, Ralph McCune.He is survived by one daughter,Elizabeth M. Hamrick, and husband,Page Hamrick III; four sons, WilliamRichard McCune Jr. and wife, Judy,Christopher Groves McCune and wife,Ellen, Brance Lindsey McCune and wife,Debbie, and Alex Groves McCune andwife, Tammy; 16 grandchildren; eightgreat-grandchildren; one brother, EugeneMcCune; and, locally, by one sister-inlaw,Jody Groves. Mary Lou McCune, hiswife of 68 years, died November 6, 2011.Donations in memory of Dr. McCunemay be made to the ShenandoahArea Council of the Boy Scouts ofAmerica, 107 Youth DevelopmentCourt, Winchester, VA 22602.Elizabeth Uy-Arceo, MDElizabeth Uy-Arceo, 72, of PalmCoast, passed away January 27, 2012.Elizabeth was born in Manila,Philippines, and moved to Charleston,WV in 2000. She earned her DoctorateDegree at the University of Sto. Tomasand practiced as a Pediatrician. Elizabethwas a member of Santa Maria DelMar Catholic Church and performeda great deal of charity work.She is survived by her husband of 48years Dr. Constantino Arceo; daughtersTina Arceo Burriss and her husband Steveof Raleigh, NC.; Toni Arceo of Charleston,WV.; Dina Arceo and her husband,Glenn Yamagata of Greensboro, NC.; LeaSpagarino and her husband, Andres ofSan Diego, CA; Brothers Vicente Uy ofLas Vegas, NV.; Jun Uy and his wife ElsieCruz - Uy of Palm Coast, ; Antonio Uy ofLos Angeles, CA, and six grandchildren.Donations may be made in Elizabeth’sname to: The Leukemia & LymphomaSociety, Donor Services, P.O. Box 4072,Pittsfield, MA 01202 or Florida HospitalHospice Care, 770 West GranadaBlvd., Ormond Beach, FL 32174.56 West Virginia Medical Journal