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In Loving Memory of
Maury
C. Newton, Jr.
Maury Claiborne
Newton, Jr., a longtime Cobb County Internist and Cardiologist, died
Saturday at his home in Kennesaw. Born in 1927 in
Roanoke
,
Virginia
, Dr. Newton served in the United States Navy near the end of World War
II. He graduated from
Wake
Forest
University
where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Alpha Fraternity and
from the Medical College of Virginia. He joined his father in the general
practice of medicine until his father’s death in 1961. Dr. Newton
enjoyed two satisfying and highly respected careers, first as a country
doctor in the small town of
Narrows
in the Blue Ridge Mountains of
Virginia
from 1954 to 1973. After completing a fellowship in cardiology, he served
on the staff of the University of Virginia Medical School as Assistant
Professor of Medicine. In 1977, he joined the practice of his medical
college classmate Dr. William Edward Holladay and was also a partner of
Dr. Robert P. Coggins and Dr. George T. Mims. Dr. Newton practiced
twenty-one years in
Marietta
before retiring in October 1998. Dr. Newton was instrumental in
establishing the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at
Kennestone
Hospital
and performed the first catheterization and the 10,000th
procedure. While in practice, Dr. Newton was a fellow in the
American
College
of Physicians, the
American
College
of Cardiology, the
American
College
of Chest Physicians, and was a member of the Society of Echocardiology.
Dr. Newton is survived by his wife, Pamela Croy Newton of Kennesaw; a son,
Maury Claiborne Newton III of
Chesterfield
,
Virginia
; two daughters, Cynthia Chadwick,
Moorpark
,
California
and Lucy Maloney,
Raleigh
,
North Carolina
; seven grandchildren, and a brother, Dr. Richard Milton Newton,
Roanoke
,
Virginia
. A memorial service will be held Saturday, January 14 at 7 p.m. at St.
Catherine’s Episcopal Church,
571 Holt Road NE
,
Marietta
,
Georgia
30068. The family requests that memorial donations be made to the organ
fund at St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church,
571 Holt Road NE
,
Marietta
,
Georgia
30868 or to Wellstar Hospice Home Care Fund,
4040 Hospital West Drive
,
Austell
,
Georgia
30106 or to Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital Foundation,
1 Taylor Avenue
,
Pearisburg
,
VA
24134
. Mayes Ward-Dobbins
Funeral Home in
Marietta
is in charge of arrangements.
If you would like to send your
condolences to the family via Givens Funeral Home, simply sign the Memorial
Guestbook by clicking the link. Your condolences will be printed
out and given to the family.
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