LMS Angel - Dr. Melvin K. Bottorff
Little Rock, Arkansas
1935 - November 2, 2007
Dr. Melvin K. Bottorff, a physician and community health care advocate, passed away on November 2, 2007 after a courageous battle with Leiomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue Cancer. He was 72.
Mel cared deeply about his patients and was the first to welcome over eight thousand new East Texas babies into the World as an OB/GYN physician. As Director of the Jasper Newton Public Health Department he helped expand community health care access for East Texas' indigent, rural, and elderly citizens; organized mass immunizations programs targeting thousands of schoolchildren; and came out of retirement in 2005 to volunteer his services to hundreds of Sam Rayburn Lake's Katrina evacuees in need of health care assistance.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1935, he is the son of the late Dr. Melvin K. Bottorff, Sr. and Elizabeth (Jim) Bottorff of Lake Village, Arkansas. His grandfather Dr. E.P. McGehee founded the Lake Village Clinic in 1912, the first health care facility in the Mississippi Delta region and Arkansas' first air conditioned hospital. His father Dr. Melvin Bottorff, Sr. also practiced at the Clinic and was Chief Physician for the Civilian Conservation Corps. in Arkansas.
1935 - November 2, 2007
Dr. Melvin K. Bottorff, a physician and community health care advocate, passed away on November 2, 2007 after a courageous battle with Leiomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue Cancer. He was 72.
Mel cared deeply about his patients and was the first to welcome over eight thousand new East Texas babies into the World as an OB/GYN physician. As Director of the Jasper Newton Public Health Department he helped expand community health care access for East Texas' indigent, rural, and elderly citizens; organized mass immunizations programs targeting thousands of schoolchildren; and came out of retirement in 2005 to volunteer his services to hundreds of Sam Rayburn Lake's Katrina evacuees in need of health care assistance.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1935, he is the son of the late Dr. Melvin K. Bottorff, Sr. and Elizabeth (Jim) Bottorff of Lake Village, Arkansas. His grandfather Dr. E.P. McGehee founded the Lake Village Clinic in 1912, the first health care facility in the Mississippi Delta region and Arkansas' first air conditioned hospital. His father Dr. Melvin Bottorff, Sr. also practiced at the Clinic and was Chief Physician for the Civilian Conservation Corps. in Arkansas.
