Jon Austin

Doc trained as a pharmacist in the Army, and went to medical school on the GI bill. He was always grateful for the opportunity, which allowed him to rise out of the Jewish ghetto in which he was born after his parents escaped Russia during the Bolshevik revolution. He was very passionate about medicine, and was always reading medical journals and going to conferences before he became ill.

Doc had advanced Alzheimer's for many many years, and spent the last 14 years under the guardianship of his daughter, Melody, and most of those years at Lake City Nursing Home.

Over the last few months of his life, his granddaughter Shaina, who is a social worker, discovered that he could respond to the Jewish music she and mom, Melody put on his ears with a headset.

This made the last 4months of his life more enjoyable, and the nursing home was so delighted by this discovery that they told other residents' families so that they could enrich the lives of their family members who had Alzheimer's."

The interment, with military honors, will be Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 11:30 am at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton, Georgia