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Prominent Physician, Dr. M. E. Hoge, Passes
Familiar faces to most every man, woman, and child in Jackson and Breathitt County are those of Dr. and Mrs. M. E. Hoge, seen here celebrating their Golden Wedding Anniversary on January 9, 1954. Dr. Hoge, who officiated at the birth of hundreds of Jackson and Breathitt countians, succumbed at his Main Street home on Thursday afternoon, September 8, after a lingering illness. Dr. Hoge, a native of Putnam County, West Virginia, was a graduate of the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville in 1904 and had served as physician for the L. & N. Railroad, the Kentucky River Lumber and Veneering Company at Camp Christy, and the Mowbray-Robinson Lumber Company at Quicksand.
He was a charter member of Quicksand Lodge No. 887, F. and A. M., later transferring his membership to Breathitt Lodge No. 649. He belonged to Jackson Chapter 160, Royal Arch Masons; Knight Templar Commandery at London, and Oleika Temple, Lexington. He was past chancellor-commander of thc Knights of Pythias and a former member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Surviving Dr. Hoge are his widow; two sons, Dr. James Hoge, Frankfort dentist, and Gene Hoge of Lexington; and two daughters, Miss Irene Hoge, Jackson PMA Clerk, and Mrs. Virginia Cooper of Bedford. (Courtesy of The Jackson Times)  |
Funeral services for one of Eastern
Kentucky's most prominent physicians, Dr. Myrvin E. Hoge, were
conducted Saturday morning at the Guerrant Memorial Presbyterian
Church with Rev. Edward Renegar officiating. Burial was in the
family cemetery at Winfield, West Virginia, under the direction
of Ray & Blake Funeral Home.
He has been president
of the Jackson Kiwanis Club, elder of the Guerrant Memorial Presbyterian
Church, trustee of Lees Junior College, president of the Breathitt
County Medical Society, and a member of the Breathitt County
Health Board.