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Lamar Batts Dr. Peacock

September 21, 1920 — June 18, 2009

Evans, GA – Dr. Lamar Batts Peacock, a retired Atlanta physician, died at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital in Augusta, GA on Thursday June 18, 2009.

He was born September 21, 1920 in Albany, Georgia. He was the son of Helen Levan Peacock and Herbert A. Peacock, mayor of Albany and state legislator. As a teenager, Dr. Peacock served a term as a page in the U. S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Albany High School and received his undergraduate degree from Emory University in 1941. Later that summer he contracted a severe case of poliomyelitis and was confined to the “Iron Lung” for ten days.

He developed an interest in medicine while being rehabilitated at Warm Springs, Georgia and was accepted at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia, graduating in 1946. He was first in his class and was president of Alpha Omega Alpha, national honorary medical fraternity. He trained in Internal Medicine under Dr. Virgil Sydenstricker at the Medical College of Georgia and completed a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at the University Of Virginia School Of Medicine.

Dr. Peacock started practice in Atlanta in 1950. He was president of several organizations: the Fulton County Medical Society (now the Medical Association of Atlanta), the Southeastern Allergy Association, and the American College of Allergy and Immunology. He was first vice-president of the Medical Association of Georgia. Dr. Peacock was a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

He was a member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, the Georgia Heart Association, the American Society of Internal Medicine, the Southern Medical Association, the Fifth District Medical Society, the Georgia Society of Internal Medicine, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association.

He was appointed to the Georgia State Board of Health in 1966 by Gov. Carl Sanders, and he also served during the administrations of Gov. Lester Maddox and Gov. Jimmy Carter.

He directed and expanded the medical residency program at Georgia Baptist Hospital (now Atlanta Medical Center) and was Chief of Medicine there for fourteen years. He was also an assistant clinical professor at Emory University School of Medicine and taught at Grady Hospital.

He was active in alumni affairs at the Medical College of Georgia, serving as president of the Alumni Association and of the Medical College’s Foundation. In 1984 he received the College’s Physician’s Physician award. Later he endowed a library for the use of interns and residents at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital in Augusta.

Honors included Fellow Distinguished Award from the American College of Allergy and Immunology and the Hal M. Davison Award from the Southeastern Allergy Association.

His publications included articles and re-printed speeches in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Annals of Allergy, and the Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia.

When the post-polio syndrome began to limit his mobility in 1991, he retired from active practice and began what might be called a telephone ministry, calling friends and former patients to offer cheer and comfort. He also maintained an active e-mail correspondence.

He was a founding member of the Cherokee Town and Country Club and a communicant of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.

He is survived by his wife of sixty-two years, Jane Bonner of Blakely, Georgia; his children, Helen Peacock Wade and her husband Richard Wade of Louisville, Kentucky, Linda Peacock Gossage and her husband Matt Gossage of Davidson, North Carolina, and Dr. Lamar Bonner Peacock and his wife Amanda of Augusta; grandchildren, Paul Wade and his wife Mary Ann, Katherine Bonner Wade, Dr. Ryan Gossage and his wife Mary, Lindsay Gossage Terrell and her husband Jeff Terrell, Davis Gossage, Grant Gossage, Jane Claire Peacock, and Blakely Lamar Peacock; great-grandchildren, Helen Meredith Wade and Caroline Gray Wade.

A memorial service will take place at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 435 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia of Tuesday June 23, 2009 at 2:00 PM.

In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to the Colonnade and Pavilion Endowment Fund at Brandon Wilde, 4275 Owens Rd., Evans, GA 30809.

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