THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, October 23, 1994 TAG: 9410230005
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
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Dr. Vincent Hilles Ober, 95, died Oct. 21, 1994, in Hillhaven, Norfolk.
Dr. Ober was a retired general practitioner and osteopathic physician having practiced in Pittman, N.J., and in Norfolk for 60 years. He was a member of Larchmont United Methodist Church, founder and first president of the Norfolk Forum and The Norfolk Torch Club, past president and board member of the Boy's and Girl's Club of Norfolk for 40 years, life member of The American Medical Association, past president of the Virginia Osteopathic Association and the Tidewater Osteopathic Medical Association, member of Seaboard Medical Association, The American Osteopathic Association, The American College of General Practitioners of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, the Norfolk Rotary Club, Medical Society of Virginia, the 50-Year Club of American Medicine, Norfolk Academy of Medicine, Smithsonian Institution, World Affairs Council of Hampton Roads, Town-N-Gown, American Association of Retired Persons, Norfolk Senior Center, Scottish Rite Bodies, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Norfolk Chamber of Commerce and was a former member of the Norfolk Yacht and Country Club, Toast Masters Club and The Hermitage Foundation and was an honorary member of the Norfolk Junior Chamber of Commerce. He received his education at the University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania and the Philadephia College of Osteopathy. He was born in Hudson Falls, N.Y., and was an Army veteran of World War I.
Survivors include his wife, Margaret Crist Ober; two sons, Vincent H. Ober, Jr., of Jacksonville, Fla., and Michael VanHouten Ober of Norfolk; a brother, LeRoy M. Ober of Norfolk; sister-in-law Kathleen J. Ober of Norfolk; daughter-in-law Susan Davenport Ober of Jacksonville, Fla.; three grandchildren, Marianne, Peter and Erin Ober; two nephews, Donroy J. Ober of Richmond and G. Harold Rudy of Atlanta, Ga.; and two nieces, Margaret Helen Rudy of Los Angeles, Calif., and Glenda L. Harris of Sullivan, Ill.
A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in Larchmont United Methodist Church by Dr. Lewis H. Morgan and Dr. William L. Lumpkin. Cox Funeral Home is handling arrangements. His body was donated to medical science. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, the Boys and Girls Club of Norfolk or Larchmont United Methodist Church.
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