Dr. C. Charles Welch

Dr. C. Charles Welch, died of cancer at his home on August 14, 2007. A memorial service will be held on Friday, August 17 at 11 :00 a.m. in the sanctuary of First United Methodist Church in Temple with Rev.Tom Robbins officiating, assisted by Rev. Hubert Austin, and Rev. Jack Riley. Rev. Jane Woodward is in charge of Music. Scanio-Harper Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Charles was born to Cecil Charles and Laura Minier Welch on May 19, 1930, in Newport, Rhode Island where his father, a Navy physician, was stationed. His first ten years were spent on various naval stations with his parents. His father's last assignment was Manila in the Philippines when war with Japan broke out. Charles, his baby sister Gloria, and their mother returned to South Dakota in 1940 to be with his parent's families. Charles graduated from high school in Brookings, South Dakota in 1948. It was in Brookings that he met his wife, Phyllis Joan Norman. Charles graduated from undergraduate and medical school at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Charles and Joan were married in 1952. In 1955, Charles joined the Navy, and began an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. Charles was subsequently stationed at Great Lakes, Illinois, Jacksonville, Florida, and Bethesda, Maryland. Charles served as a fellow in Cardiology while stationed in Bethesda. In 1965 he joined the Cardiology department at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1974 he joined the Cardiology department at Scott and White Hospital and Clinic in Temple. He retired in 1995 but continued to teach electrocardiography to medical students and residents and read cardiograms for 12 more years. Dr. Welch is survived by his wife, Joan and three children: Susan Kay Welch and her daughter Lauren Ferrel of Temple; Julia Diane Welch, her husband Jack Taylor and their daughter, Kyla Taylor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Thomas James Welch and his wife, Francesca of Emigrant, Montana. Also, he is survived by his sister, Gloria Legvold and husband Robert, of Winchester, Massachusetts, and his brother-in-law Dr. Frank Norman, of Minneapolis. He was preceded in death by his parents. Memorials may be made to Scott and White Hospital in care of the Development Office or First United Methodist Church in Temple.