Dr. Charles William Holcomb
Dr. Charles William Holcomb, 84, of Richwood,
died Saturday, March 31, 2007, at Riverside
Methodist Hospital in Columbus, after a short ill-
ness.
He attended West Virginia Wesleyan College in
Buckhannon, W.Va., and was accepted in the Unit-
ed States Navy V-12 Program, entering West Vir-
ginia University Medical School. On completion
of the two-year program, he completed his medical requirements at
the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Va., where he was
president of his senior class and a member of Phi Chi Medical Fra-
ternity.
Upon graduation from medical school, Dr. Holcomb was commis-
sioned lieutenant junior grade in the United States Navy and was
stationed at the United States Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla.
After completion of his internship, he was assigned as destroyer
squadron medical officer and served on a number of ships in the
South Atlantic, South America and along the East Coast of _the Unit-
ed States. He was discharged from the service in 1949.
Dr. Holcomb and his wife Barbara moved to Richwood in 1951,
where he practiced general medicine until his retirement in Decem-
ber 1989.
Dr. Holcomb was a 50-year member of the Marion Academy of
Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association, and the American
Academy of Medicine. He was a member of the medical staff at
Marion General Hospital for the same number of years. He served
on the first board of trustees of the Marion Health Maintenance
Organization.
Dr. Holcomb served the community in other significant ways. He
was a 35-year appointee to the Union County Board of Health. He
was a member and president of the Richwood Local Board of Edu-
cation and the North Union Local Board of Education during the
period of consolidation and planning for the new high school. He
served as chief of medical staff at the Charles B. Mills Center in
Marysville. After retirement, he served on the Richwood Civic Cen-
ter Board as member and president
He was born Dec. 10,1922, in Sutton, W. Va., to the late Otto Lory
and Myrtle Morrison Holcomb. He also was preceded in death by
three brothers, Jerry, John and James.
Surviving are his wife Barbara Boggs Holcomb whom he married
Dec. 23,1950, in Sutton, W. Va.; two sons, Dr. James W. (Judy) Hol-
comb of Flowery Branch, Ga., and Timothy B. Holcomb of Indi-
anapolis; three daughters, Ann Holcomb of New York City, and
Sally (Joseph) Wiley and Mary (Michael) Price of Richwood; nine
grandchildren, Elizabeth and Amy Holcomb, Jennifer and Cory Hol-
comb, Sarah, Mark and Lauren Wiley and William and Taylor Price;
one brother, Robert L. Holcomb of Nashville, Tenn.; and several
nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Richwood
First United Methodist Church, where the family will receive callers
from 5 p.m. until the time of the service. The Rev. Joseph Rhea will
officiate. Internment will take place in West Virginia at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to the First United
Methodist Church Memorial Fund, 18 S. Fulton St. Richwood, OH
43344 and the Richwood Civic Center and R.E.A.P., both located at
235 Grove St. Richwood, OH 43344.
Stofcheck Funeral Home in Richwood is handling arrangements.
Stofcheck-Ballinger Funeral Home