H. Edward Logue

Harry Edward Logue passed peacefully on June 6,2026. Ed was born on November 28, 1934 in a two-room sharecropper’s home in Tennille, GA, to parents Mae Lord and Horace Edward Logue. Despite having only elementary educations (5th and 3rd grade levels respectively), his parents brought him up to love learning. During his senior year of high school, Ed read a complete encyclopedia set that had been purchased for him at great cost by his father. It was then that he became fascinated with science and became interested in a career in medicine.

Through hard work, ingenuity, and a fateful turn of chance, Ed was able to afford a semester of college. He set off for Emory at Oxford. He would go on to complete an Associate Degree in Science in 1955, later a Bachelor of Science degree from the Atlanta campus of Emory University in 1958.

As a young man putting himself through higher education, Ed supported himself in a variety of ways including highway resurfacing, work in a chalk mine, and performing magic shows.

He would go on to attend the Medical College of Georgia where he would obtain his medical degree in 1963. Dr. Logue practiced family medicine for five years and then returned to Medical College of Georgia for specialty training in psychiatry, which he completed in 1972.

In 1972 he began a 50-year career in psychiatry in Birmingham, AL. He dedicated his life to providing quality mental health care. Service to his patients was his mission. He served his patients through outpatient practice, inpatient care, in their homes, in nursing homes, on street corners, at crisis centers, and in prisons. He was a longtime, dedicated member of the medical staff at Princeton hospital and meaningfully advanced the inpatient psychiatric capabilities at that facility. In 1974, he founded the Department of Psychiatry at Brookwood Medical Center. He chaired that department for twelve years, growing it to a ninety-seven-bed unit during that time. In 1983 he was awarded a Certificate of Honorary Assistant Attorney General of the State of Alabama. He served as President of the Alabama Psychiatric Society from 1990-1991. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill named him Mental Health Professional of the Year in 1996 and gave him the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award in 1998.

Dr. Logue served as principal investigator for more than 100 clinical research trials. His work has been shown on the Discovery Channel and in Parade magazine. He was a frequent guest on local TV and radio shows.

In 1990, he founded American Behavioral Benefits Managers, Inc. The organization won two Best in Business Awards from the Birmingham Business Journal and has served clients in all fifty states, Canada, and Australia.

Dr. Logue has authored three books. Fly Me to the Moon is a fictional novel intended to provide accessible insight for people struggling with Bipolar Disorder themselves or supporting an afflicted loved one. He subsequently published Addiction: Yours, Mine, and Ours. In his later years, he authored a personal testimony titled God Embraces: Scripture, Science, and Miracles.

Throughout his life, Ed’s children were very important to him. He treasured phone calls and visits from them, at times from locations across the country or across an ocean. In his later years, he felt tremendously blessed to have all his children—Janine, Ann, Wade, Corinne, Tapley, and Ginger—all gathered together with him in 2019 for a Father’s Day celebration and again in 2021 for a celebration of his retirement.

Ed and his wife Kathy spent their 47 years of marriage in Birmingham, where they raised their daughter Ginger, and took great joy together in being blessed as grandparents of Ginger and Josh’s boys—D.Y., Joseph, and Henry. Ed and Kathy were members of the Cathedral Church of the Advent.

Ed occasionally took breaks from his work. He enjoyed good food and conversation with his family around the dinner table and vacationing with his family and friends in the mountains of western North Carolina, the Florida Gulf Coast, and on Grand Bahama Island.

Ed is survived by his wife Kathryn Street Logue, sister Ophelia Franks, and children Janine Wooten (John Parsons), Ann Iba Bondi, Wade Stallings (Tim Brannan), Corinne Logue (Cuneyt Can), Tapley Logue-Lopez, and Ginger Menendez (Josh). Grandchildren and great-grandchildren include Chip Wooten (Lindsey, children Reid and Blake); Mark Wooten (Taylor); Sean Parsons (Tiffany, daughter Haylee); Chelsea Redmond (children Ellie and Jace); Allie Gregersen (Jeff, children Chloe and Maggie); Sevgi and Yasemin Can; Ben and Zac Lopez; D.Y., Joseph, and Henry Menendez.

A service of thanksgiving for his life will be held at the Cathedral Church of the Advent on Wednesday June 17th at 11:00 A.M. There will be a visitation at the church at 10:00 A.M., prior to the service. The family will have a private burial following the service.

In lieu of flowers, please direct any memorial donations to the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Pastoral Care Ministries. Instructions can be found online at https://adventbirmingham.org/give/