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- Texarkana Doctor Succumbs at 50
Special to the Journal
Texarkana, Tex. – Dr. Richard Brunazzi, 50, a well-known Texarkana surgeon died late Monday night in a local hospital following an apparent heart attack.
Dr. Brunazzi become ill Monday night at his home and was taken to the hospital where he died about an hour ago.
A graduate of Texas University and Baylor Medical School, he had been in active practice of general surgery since 1948. He had been chief resident of Charity Hospital at Tulane University in New Orleans and chief staff at both Wadley and St. Michael hospitals in Texarkana.
Funeral arrangements pending with the Texarkana Funeral Home.
The Shreveport Journal, Shreveport, Louisiana. Tuesday, 25 February 1969.
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- Texarkana Doctor Dies
Dr. Richard Brunazzi, 51, prominent Texarkana surgeon, died late Monday night in a Texarkana hospital following an apparent heart attack.
The surgeon was stricken at his home. He died about an hour later in Wedley Hospital.
His widow is the former Ceciel Cassidy, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. G.H. Cassidy of Shreveport.
Also surviving are three daughters, Mrs. T.A. Grant III, of Monroe, La, Mrs. Emon Mahony Jr., of Washington, D.C., and Miss Cecile Brunazzi, a student at Duke University; a sister, Mrs. James Alexander of Texarkana.
Dr. Brunazzi had practiced surgery in Texarkana since 1948. He was a past president of the medical staffs of Wadley and St. Michael’s hospitals in that city.
A former student of Texarkana College and a graduate of the University of Texas, he got his medical degree from Baylor University, interned at Parkland Hospital in Dallas and did his surgical residency on the Tulane service of Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
He was a past president of the Alton-Oschner Society of Tulane, and was a diplomat an the American Board of Surgery, member of the American College of Surgeons, Southwest Surgical Society, and Southeast Surgical Society.
Active in civic and social affairs of Texarkana, he was a former vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and past president of the Men’s Camellia Club.
He was born in Heavener, Okla., but lived most of his life in Texarkana.
His body is at Texarkana Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
The Shreveport Journal, Shreveport, Louisiana. Tuesday, 25 February 1969.
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