Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Paul Henry DIETRICH
Dr. Paul Henry Dietrich, 71, widely known roentgenologist and pathologist, died early Sunday at a local hospital after a short illness. He lived at 484 Eastview Dr.
Services will be held at Grace Episcopal Church today at 4 p.m., the Rev. Leon C. Balch and Rev. Battle McLester officiating.
Palbearers will be Dr. Gene Kistlar, Dr. Edward G. Johnson, Dr. Marsh Frere, Dr. Franklin B. Bogart, Dr. John C. Crowell and Oscar Hilliard. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Medical Society and the Tri-County Medical Society of Georgia.
The body is at Wann-Cosmopolitan Funeral Home where it will remain until the time of service.
Dr. Dietrich came to Chattanooga 24 years ago as roentgenologist and pathologist of Baroness Erlanger and T.C. Thompson Children's hospitals and later held similar positions with John L. Hutchinson Memorial Hospital (Tri-County) and Pine Breeze Sanitorium. At one time he was associated with Dr. Stanton S. Marchbanks in private practice.
In addition to his career in Chattanooga, Dr. Dietrich organized the medical departments for General Motors plants in Pontiac, Mich., and served as industrial surgeon for those plants for several years. He resigned to become superintendent of the George W. Hubbard Hospital and professor of physical and differential diagnosis at Meharry Medical College in Nashville.
Later, Dr. Dietrich became pathologist and roentgenologist of St. Mary's Mercy Hospital at Gary, Ind., owned and operated by The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, a Papal Order. In 1928, the order acquired St. Catherine's Hospital in East Chicago and put Dr. Dietrich in charge of its clinical and X-ray departments. He served those institutions until 1936 and also was an instructor in pathology at Loyola University, Chicago.
Dr. Dietrich was born in Kutztown, Pa., Oct. 16, 1888, the son of the late Charles Henry and Susan Grim Dietrich. His wife was the late Genevieve Walton Dietrich.
He received his education at Keystone State Normal School (now Kutztown State Teachers College) and at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, from which he was graduated in 1913. He interned at Washington Heights Hospital, New York City, and became resident physician at Children's Free Hospital now Michigan State Children's Hospital in Detroit.
For a Time, he engaged in private practice in Ashland, Wis., and in Petersburg, Va., as well as in Chattanooga.
During World War II, Dr. Dietrich did diagnostic roentgenological work for the Hamilton County Public Health Department and Pine Breeze, as well as Erlanger and Children's hospitals.
He assumed active work as roentgenologist and pathologist with Hutchinson Memorial in January 1954, a position he resigned Jan. 1, 1959, retiring from active practice of medicine due to ill health.
Dr. Dietrich was a Fellow of American Medical Association, and of the American College of Physicians, a member of the staffs of Hutchinson Memorial, Erlanger, Memorial hospitals and Pine Breeze Sanatorium, and a member of the Tennessee Medical Association, the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, Roentgenological Society of North America, American Public Health Association, and the Chicago Roentgen and Pathological Societies.
He was a member of the Lutheran Church.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Albert S. Easley, 524 N. Crest, Mrs. Robert D. MacCurdy of Logan, Utah, and Mrs. Warren P. Willman of Chicago, tow sons, Paul W. Dietrich of Dallas and Donald G. Dietrich of Chattanooga; and nine grandchildren.
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