Doctor Falls Bacon Hershey

1918 - 2004  (85 years)

• Name	Doctor Falls Bacon Hershey
  Title	Doctor
  Born	18 Aug 1918	Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
  Gender	Male
  Died	24 Jun 2004	St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri
  Person ID	I272008482415	Eby/Aebi and Bernethy Family
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2013

  
  

  Father	Charles Owen Hershey,   b. 6 Feb 1887, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 12 Feb 1952  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Emma Eby,   b. 22 Dec 1876, Canaan, Wayne County, Ohio
  Family ID	F246729425719	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 18 Aug 1918 - Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Died - 24 Jun 2004 - St Louis, St Louis County, Missouri  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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  Cook County, Illinois, Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922 about Falls Bacon Hershey Name: Falls Bacon Hershey Birth Date: 16 Aug 1918 Birth Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois Gender: Male Father Name: Charles Hershey Father's Age: 32 Mother Name: Emma Eby Mother's Age: 41 FHL Film Number: 1308856 Social Security Death Index about Falls B. Hershey Name: Falls B. Hershey Last Residence: 63124 Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America Born: 16 Aug 1918 Died: 24 Jun 2004 State (Year) SSN issued: Washington (Before 1951) Dr. Falls Bacon Hershey, a retired surgeon and educator who served as the director of vascular surgery at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, died Thursday (June 24, 2004) of heart failure at St. John's Mercy. He was 85 and lived in University City. He had been a longtime Clayton resident. Dr. Hershey and his partner, Dr. Arthur Auer, performed the first lumpectomies in the St. Louis area to treat breast cancer in women in the early 1970s, Auer said. At the time, the regular course of treatment was the complete removal of the affected breast. Dr. Hershey and Auer offered lumpectomies followed by radiation, a now-standard treatment for breast cancer. "When we first starting doing (lumpectomies) at St. John's Mercy, they were very surprised," Auer said. Dr. Hershey and Auer were known as pioneers in vascular surgery. Dr. Hershey co-wrote the first book to detail vascular surgery methods, and he and Auer performed some of the first vascular bypass surgeries in lower legs and feet, helping patients avoid amputations of toes, feet and legs. The two also initiated in the St. Louis area the use of filters to prevent blood clots from traveling to the lungs. Dr. Hershey started the first vascular fellowship in St. Louis and the first symposium for the noninvasive diagnosis of vascular disease, which is still held in St. Louis. "We were willing to try new things, as long as we thought we could help the patients," Auer said. Dr. Hershey was born Aug. 16, 1918, in Chicago. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he later taught surgery. Dr. Hershey moved to St. Louis in 1953 to teach surgery at Washington University. He taught there until 1964. He was chief of surgical services for the Washington University division of John Cochran Veterans Administration Hospital from 1955 to 1960. He started a private practice with Auer in 1961. Dr. Hershey started and was director of the first artery bank west of the Mississippi River at St. Louis City Hospital. At the bank, which opened in 1954, arteries were preserved for future use in emergency situations. In 1964, Dr. Hershey became chairman of surgery at the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago. He returned to his private practice in St. Louis in 1966 and continued to teach at Washington University from 1966 until his retirement in 1987. He served as chief of vascular surgery and director of the blood flow laboratory, which he founded, at St. John's Mercy from 1977 until he retired. Dr. Hershey served in the United States Naval Reserve in 1942-43 and in the Coast Guard from 1944-46. His son, Julian "Jay" Hershey of Westfield, N.J., said that Dr. Hershey enlisted in the armed services because he was outraged by the violence of Nazi Germany. Dr. Hershey was a past president and member of the St. Louis County Medical Society. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Aug. 1 at First Unitarian Church of St. Louis, 5007 Waterman Boulevard in St. Louis. In addition to his son Jay, among the survivors are sons Charles Owen Hershey of Buffalo, N.Y.; and James "Jim" Eby Hershey of University City; daughter Laura Veronica Hershey of Los Angeles; and seven grandchildren. His wife, Julia "Julie" Elder Hershey, a St. Louis radio and television show host, died in 1999. Memorials may be made to the St. John's Mercy Foundation, 12800 Corporate Hill Drive, St. Louis, Mo. 63131; Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Suite 306, Boston, Mass. 02115; or the Salvation Army, 1130 Hampton Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 63139.