Joseph Hansford Dr. Berry

Dr. Berry grew up in the family mercantile and grain business. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he studied Zoology and Psychology.

His undergraduate studies were interrupted for a stint in the U.S. Navy Medical Corp during WWII as Pharmacists Mate First Class, where he served at Balboa Memorial Hospital in San Diego and on the USS Brookings in the South Pacific.

He returned to UT after the war with a new determination for learning where he obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees.

He was well on his way to a career in teaching at the University and was actively working on a PhD in psychology when he was accepted into the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.

It was in Medical school where he met the love of his life, a young nurse named Constance Obradovich.

After graduation, they were married on June 22, 1952.

He accepted a one-year internship at the Jackson Memorial Hospital, in Miami. He later started a three-year residency in Neurology & Psychiatry at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston.

In 1956 the family moved to San Antonio where he began a private practice in neurology and psychiatry, which he continued and loved until this death.

He was responsible for organizing the Park North General Hospital in 1972 in San Antonio with an entire floor dedicated to psychiatry.

He and his associates were the hospital's founders and he was the final owner until 1983.

His work with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Federal Prison System rejuvenated his medical practice.

He also served as a expert witness in Social Security Administrative hearings, Texas Rehabilitation Commission, and maintained an active private practice all along. During this time, he received the designation as a Diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Medicine.

Dr. Berry had been involved in the registered and commercial cattle business for most of this life. He ranched in the Central, South, and Hill country areas of Texas.

He had raised commercial cattle, registered Herefords, registered Santa Gertrudis and registered Angus. In the late 1950's he began crossing Angus and Brahman cattle. In the early 1960s, he was pioneer in the early success and growth of the Brangus cattle breed.

He had been a member of the International Brangus Breeders Association since 1962. He served on the Finance Committee and was a three-term member of the Broad of Directors.

He was a founding member of the Hill Country Brangus Breeders Association and was chairman of the organization for two years.

He had also served on the Texas Brangus Board of Directors.

The 1970s held the greatest fun-filled days for Dr. and Mrs. Berry while involved with the Brangus Breeders Associations. Great, life-long friends were made during those days.

The ranches in Bandera and Dilley were the source of his recreation. He enjoyed hosting many friends and family at the ranch for family gatherings at holiday's times, his grandson's Boy Scouts many campouts, and especially hunting trips with his friends.

Improvements to the ranches were his constant projects; whether operating a bulldozer, making repairs, constructing new barns, tiling any-and everything; he enjoyed doing it.

Every weekend was spent working on something. He didn't know how to just sit and enjoy. It was work and enjoy.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Connie and is survived by his three children: Joseph Craig Berry, Pamela Berry Braha and husband, Jacques, and Kevin Hansford Berry and his wife, Karen, all of San Antonio.

His five grandchildren also survive him: Joshua Hansford Berry, Joseph Reed Berry, Benjamin Thomas Berry, Zachary Alexander Braha, and Natalie Elizabeth Braha.