Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, June 11, 1990 TAG: 9006110005
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Dr. George Clayton Armistead, Jr., age 74, of Pelham Manor, New York, died Saturday, June 9, 1990, in a Salem hospital. He was a native of Roanoke, Valedictorian for the Class of 1934 of Jefferson Senior High School, and an Honor Student at the University of Virginia where he received his B.S. and M.D. Degrees, graduating second in his class from the School of Medicine. He was a member of the Raven Society, Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. Dr. Armistead was associated with the New York Hospital as Intern and in 1948, as Resident Physician, practicing also as Fellow-In-Charge of the Sloane Kettering Memorial Hospital Diagnostic Clinic and an Assistant Member of the Sloane Kettering Institute. In World War II, he served as Captain in the Army Medical Corps and returned to New York as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Cornell Medical College and Associate Attending Physician at the New York Hospital. He also was in private practice in Internal Medicine and Hematology. Surviving are his wife, Margaret Skinner Armistead, Pelham Manor, New York; two sons, George Clayton Armistead III, Pelham Manor; William Skinner Armistead, Columbia, Md.; one daughter, Margaret Armistead Selig, New Rochelle, New York; one grandson, Andrew Selig; also surviving are his sisters, Mary Bland Armistead and Anne Armistead, both of Roanoke; Mrs. John C. Bouldin, Alexandria; one brother, John G. Armistead, Springfield, Va. Graveside services will be held in Evergreen Burial Park on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to St. John's Episcopal Church Memorial Fund or the American Heart Association. Arrangements are by Oakey's Roanoke.
by CNB