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BREVARD, N.C. - Dr. Mac Roy Gasque, 93, died Friday, Feb. 17, 2006.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in First United Methodist Church. A reception will follow in the church fellowship hall. Arrangements are by Moore Funeral Home.
Dr. Gasque died at his home in Brevard on Feb. 17, at the age of 93. He was surrounded by his loving family, friends and devoted staff.
Dr. Gasque was a specialist in the field of occupational medicine, having been certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine (Occupational Medicine) in 1957.
During World War II, he was a Naval Medical Officer, serving aboard the U.S. battleship USS Wyoming in the Atlantic Theater. Again during the Korean conflict, he served in the Pacific aboard the aircraft carrier Oriskany.
In 1945, Dr. Gasque began an association with Ecusta Paper Corporation as their first medical director. Later, after Ecusta was acquired by Olin Corporation, he moved to the corporate headquarters in New York City. At the time of his retirement in 1978, Dr. Gasque was vice president and director of health affairs of Olin Corporation.
Dr. Gasque was a frequent contributor to occupational medical literature. His primary interest was related to employee health and medical administration.
He was a former director of the American Academy of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
After his retirement from Olin Corporation, Dr. Gasque continued his professional career as a consultant to the legal profession in matters related to medicine and scientific litigation.
Throughout his professional career, Dr. Gasque maintained a close association with the University of Virginia, from which he received his medical degree in 1944. He was named the recipient of the first Outstanding Medical Alumnus Award. He was a former president of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association and a founding trustee of the University of Virginia Medical School Foundation and president of the Foundation from 1979 to 1990. At the time of his death, he was a trustee emeritus of the Foundation. He was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society and the Raven Society.
In the late 1990s, Dr. Gasque and his wife, Georgia, were the sponsors and principal contributors to the establishment and furnishing of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association Headquarters at 1111 Main St. in Charlottesville, Va.
Dr. Gasque was born and reared in Asheville. He attended the Asheville public schools, where he was active in athletics. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 5l years, Olene Stafford Gasque, in August 1990.
Survivors include his wife, Georgia Gasque, whom he married in April 1997 in Williamsburg; three sons, Mac Roy Gasque III, and wife, Julia, of Kingston, Tenn., James Gaylord Gasque and wife, Katherine, of Vista, Calif., and John Stafford Gasque of Brevard; two stepdaughters, Laura Heath and Linda Foster, their two children and two grandchildren, all of Amarillo, Texas; four grandchildren, Mac Roy Gasque IV and Carter Gasque, both of Kingston, and Jocelyn Merone and Jennifer Scoff, both of High Point; and five great-grandchildren, Mac Roy Gasque V, Luke Gasque and Jolee Gasque, all of Kingston, and Eduardo Merone and Eva Merone, both of High Point.
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