| Show Death Strikes Doctor After Baby Is Born All the old timers will remember Dr Ward when he was our leading physician and surgeon The following acc ac ac count of his hi death was taken from the I. I Oakland California Post Enquirer of ot Thursday April 27 I Birth and death In a brief half hour Those mysteries of Ufe today were I contained in the last call made by Dr E E. E K Ward Oakland physician and sur sur- sur geon I The year old doctor was aroused Just before midnight last night by a 1 call that a baby was about to be born to his patient Mrs Juanita DeMello of or 2316 Bartlett street at East Oakland hospital Swiftly packing the Instruments with which he had delivered hundreds of Oakland babies the veteran doctor left his home at Foothill boulevard OUT IN RAIN RUN BORN nORN IN WHEATLAND He plunged into the dark rainy night leaving behind his cheery home as ns h he h had done so often during his 42 years as a doctor Dr Ward arrived at the hospital and delivered a baby boy to Mrs DeMello wife of Leslie DeMello an Oakland plumber Dr Ward returned home But a few minutes later agonizing pains pain shot shot through his heart Dr Ward called the h hospital for an ambulance But it arrived too late Dr Ward died Just an as It arrived arrived The doctor was born In Wheatland I He started practice at Park City Utah and later moved to California He had practiced In Oakland for the last 22 21 years Dr Ward was a member of Fruitvale lodge W W. O. O W. W a charter member of Foothill Masonic lodge and past master of Arbuckle lodge He lIe is survived by his widow Mrs Eva Hamlin Ward two sons John Milto Milton Mllton Mil Mil Mil- to ton n Ward now on on duty In Iran Iron and James E E. Ward Washington D. D C. C two daughters Mrs Estelle Hensill San Jose and Mrs Betty Detty Treadwell Merced a sister Mrs Pearl Burnett and seven Cven grandchildren Funeral services are pending at Clarene Clarene Clarene Clar- Clar ene N N. N Cooper mortuary |
