Key Medical Officers

Key Medical Officers

Shown above is Colonel Charles T. Young, Chief of Medical Service, with Wakeman General Hospital's Medical Section Chiefs and Sub-Chiefs.

Seated l-r: Capt. William Morgan, Chief, Out Patients Clinic; 1st Lt. George Kurland, Asst. Chief, Medical Service; Col. Young; Major Elmer Capellari, Chief, N-P Section (See below).

Standing: Capt. Thurwald Anderson, Chief, Allergy Section; 1st Lt. Frank Witherspoon, Chief, Dermatology Section; Capt. Paul Lavietes, Chief, General Medical Section; 1st Lt. Floyd Beman, Chief, Women's Section; 1st Lt. James Patterson, Chief, Officers Section; Major John Moring, Chief, G. I. Section.

Elmer Capellari married Jane Elizabeth McKelvey in 1945, lived in Pennsylvania for a few years (where they were both from) and then moved to the Detroit area where my father worked at the Veteran's Hospital there until he retired. He also had a private practice in Detroit (he was a
psychiatrist). He has 4 children (Louis, Cynthia, Edward and Riva - me!) and 4 grandchildren (Thomas and Jean by Louis; Kelly and Jamie by Edward). He passed away November 9, 1994 of bone cancer. He was born December 27, 1911

Submitted by his daughter, 06/27/2002.