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Lieut Percy J. Ross

Birth	:	25 Dec 1901
Death	:	28 Sep 1948
Burial	:	Riverside Cemetery, Akron, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.8367004, -96.5453033
Inscription	:	ILLINOIS LT COL ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II.
Description	:	Rites Will be Held Here Saturday For the Former Akron Man Dr. Percy J. Ross, 47, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ross, of this city, passed away yesterday (Wednesday) morning in Chicago, after an illness of over a month. Mr. and Mrs. Ross went to see their son in a Chicago hospital a few weeks ago, at which time they were advised that there was practically no possibility of his recovery. Dr. Ross has engaged in medical practice in Chicago for a number of years. The community extends sincere sympathy to his family, parent and other relatives in their bereavement. Funeral services will... Read More	Rites Will be Held Here Saturday For the Former Akron Man Dr. Percy J. Ross, 47, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ross, of this city, passed away yesterday (Wednesday) morning in Chicago, after an illness of over a month. Mr. and Mrs. Ross went to see their son in a Chicago hospital a few weeks ago, at which time they were advised that there was practically no possibility of his recovery. Dr. Ross has engaged in medical practice in Chicago for a number of years. The community extends sincere sympathy to his family, parent and other relatives in their bereavement. Funeral services will be held here in the First Baptist church Saturday afternoon, at 2:00 o'clock. Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery. Akron Register Tribune Thursday, September 30, 1948 Akron, Iowa HOLD RITES FOR DR. PERCY J. ROSS HERE SATURDAY Esteemed Chicago Physician Spent His Boyhood In Akron There was brief mention made in these columns last week of the death of Dr. Percy J. Ross, of Chicago, at his home in La Grange, Ill., on Tuesday, September 28, at the age of 46, loving obituary and fine testimonial to his character, life and work was read at the funeral services in the church in which he held membership in La Grange, the First Congregational. Percu Jay Ross was born in Akron, Iowa, on Christmas Day in 1901. He was the second of the four children--three sons and one daughter-of Robert and May Koch Ross. He received his education in the public schools of Akron; at the Uviversity of Iowa Medical School, and at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, where he did postgraduate, work in Otolaryngology. His general internship was in the Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Ross came to Chicago in 1927, where he was a senior member in the Department of Otolaryngology at St. Luke's Hospital, and where, more recently, he was on the faculty of Northwestern Medical school as well. During the war he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States army Air Force, stationed at bases in Mississippi and Colorado. He and his family have lived in La Grange since 1935. He died at his home on South Spring Avenue Tuesday morning, September 28, 1948. Burial will be in the family cemetery in Akron, Iowa. Dr. Ross will be rememberd for his brilliant mind; his quiet, kind, modest, generous disposition; his enjoyment of good music and good litature; his skill in his profession, and his rich and abundant life in his home. He had a brilliant mind, a mind that was always conce4rned to find and to know the truth. This made him an omnivorous reader of profesional books and good literature in general. It gave him the scholarship that enabled him to become, while still in the Medical School, a member of the Honorary Medical Fraternity, Alpha Omega Alpha. Like all good doctors, he placed first and foremost the health and welfare of his patients; all other considerations were secondary. While not a general practitioner, he frequently went far beyond the call of duty to serve the patients and their families, at times forgetting his need of rest and relaxation and sleep to watch with them through the night. Robert Louis Stevenson could have been thinking of him when writing of a beloved physician he said, "Generosity he has such as is possible to those who practice an art, never to those who drive a trade; discretion, tested by a hundred secrets; tact, tried in a thousand embarrassment; and what are more important, Hereulean cheerfulness and courage. So it is that he brings air and cheer into the sicroom, and often enough, though (perhaps) not as often as he wishes, brings healing." Dr. Ross was a member of the First congregational churc of La Grange and was active in the life of the church. He was a man of faith, being interested in the soul as well as the body. But it was in his home that he was known the best, loved the dearest, and where he will be missed the most. He has left us far too soon. He was only 46 years of age. But we should remembered that life is not measured in terms of its quanity but in terms of its quality. We should remember also that our Christian faith tells us that the things of worth that we miss on earth are reserved for our souls to do. Therefore, as we gather here today, our thoughts are not just about his death, but about his life, about his eternal life with God.

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Lieut Percy J. Ross's memorial is located at: Riverside Cemetery, Akron, Plymouth County, USA.
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Latitude: 42.8367004
Longitude: -96.5453033

Family Members:

Parent

Robert Andrew Ross

(1860 - 1955)

May Louise Koch Ross

(1881 - 1975)

Spouse

Florence M. Ross Ross

(1896 - 1955)

Siblings

Pvt Russell Onley Ross

(1899 - 1972)

Mahlon Ross

(1911 - 1911)

Myron Ross

(1911 - 1911)

Children

Dr Betty Ross Conner

(1930 - 2020)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Riverside Cemetery
Akron, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8367004, -96.5453033

2. Saint Patricks Cemetery
Akron, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8232300, -96.5374800

3. Mount Hope Cemetery
Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8885994, -96.5667038

4. Union Creek Cemetery
Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8911018, -96.5863037

5. Gores Bluff Cemetery
Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8035069, -96.6260468

6. Westfield Township Cemetery
Westfield, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7510986, -96.5914001

7. Richland Cemetery
Richland, Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7682991, -96.6624985

8. Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Spink, Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8741000, -96.6876000

9. Big Springs Cemetery
Big Springs, Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.9379000, -96.6090000

10. Old Big Springs Cemetery
Big Springs, Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.9455986, -96.5868988

11. Saint Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery
Ruble, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8372000, -96.3799000

12. Mills Family Cemetery
Westfield, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7188460, -96.6019280

13. First Brule Creek Cemetery
Elk Point, Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7943993, -96.7069016

14. Pleasant Hill Cemetery Old
Spink, Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8588462, -96.7215592

15. Brule Creek Cemetery
Spink Township, Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8346510, -96.7324350

16. Pleasant Valley Cemetery
Adaville, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7494011, -96.4005966

17. Saint Paul Cemetery
Elk Point, Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7641983, -96.7061005

18. Union County Poor Farm Cemetery
Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7649210, -96.7077580

19. Nora Cemetery
Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.9314003, -96.7061005

20. Plymouth Presbyterian Cemetery
Brunsville, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8208760, -96.3318410

21. Ahlsborg Lutheran Cemetery
Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8228000, -96.7612000

22. Saint Joseph Cemetery
Johnson Township, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7416992, -96.3707962

23. Peace Lutheran Cemetery
Union County, USA
Coordinate: 42.9805984, -96.6481018

24. Saint Johns Cemetery
Craig, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8939018, -96.3225021