This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/6008 Message Board Post: DR. ROBERT H. LYMAN FILLMORE...This northern Allegany County community today mourns the death of DR. Robert H. LYMAN, 63, who succumbed, apparently to a heart attack, Friday, around 7 p.m., Sept. 7, 1962, in his office on Genesee Street. The death of the medical man, who had been a surgeon and later a general practitioner here 35 years, leaves Fillmore without a "Dr. LYMAN" for the first time in living memory, his father and grandfather having practiced medicine here before him. FOUNDED HOSPITAL The family professional name is also linked with the old Genesee Country Memorial Hospital, which the LYMANS founded and operated, which closed it's doors in the early 1950s. WAS HEALTH OFFFCER In deference to the death of Dr. LYMAN, who was Town of Hume Health Officer 20 years, the Hume Town Council, headed by Supt. Raymond J. KOPLER of Fillmore, cancelled the meeting it was to have held Friday night. Dr. LYMAN was born in Fillmore March 4, 1899, a son of the late Dr. Almond H. LYMAN and Mrs. Josephine WHALEN LYMAN. Attending New York Military Academy, north of New York City, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1923 from Alfred University, and completed studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Medical School in 1927. Before assuming his father's home town practice, Dr. LYMAN was associated with the Cooper Hospital of Camden, New Jersey. from 1928 to 1929. WARTIME MEDICO In World War II he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the medical corps in the European and South Pacific theaters. He was elected a member of the Allegany County Medical Soc. Oct. 14, 1931, and was also a member of the New York State Medical Society. His passing does not leave Fillmore without a resident physician. Dr. Stefan B. ROSE resides and practices here. Dr. LYMAN was a member of Maple Grove Lodge No. 761 of Free and Accepted Masons of Short Tract, and of the Masonic Lake Hiram Club. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Leona SCHAEFER LYMAN. A private service was conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.11, 1962, at the Kopler Funeral Home here. Dr. J. Whitney SHEA, professor of Economics and Sociology at nearby Houghton College will officiate. Burial was made in Pine Grove cemetery. [Transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from obituary collection of Lenora Mills, Wiscoy, NY]