DR. EUCLID MURDEN HANBURY JR.

ORANGE, Va. – Dr. Euclid Murden Hanbury Jr., 82, died Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, at The Keep, his home in Orange, Va. A native of Portsmouth, Va., he was the elder son of Blanche Conwell and Euclid Murden Hanbury. He attended Virginia Military Institute and Hampden-Sydneys College before entering the V12 program at Duke University. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Virginia in 1952, as well as a Master of Science in surgery. Dr. Hanbury completed his internship in medicine and surgery at Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, and earned a fellowship in physiology at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. He returned to the University of Virginia for his residence in surgery; after eight years of residency training, he was certified by the American Board of Surgery and taught briefly at the university. Dr. Hanbury then returned to Portsmouth, Va., where he was clinical director of the former Portsmouth General Hospital and was responsible for establishing the extensive outpatient clinics there, the residency program, the isotope unit and the renal dialysis service. In 1969 he was lured to Maine and established an active practice of surgery in Belfast until 1982, when he assumed the directorship of the Emergency Medical Services of Waldo County General Hospital until his retirement in 1994. He served as president of the Maine Medical Association in 1975-1976 and Medical Care Development, Inc., from 1979-1982. He was a member of numerous professional societies, including the New York Academy of Science, MENSA and the American Rocket Society. He was the author of several papers that have been published in various medical journals. Descended from the early settlers of Virginia, including Adam Thoroughgood, Dr. Hanbury was a member of the Jamestown Society. Dr. Hanbury was an active sailor in Maine waters and an avid golfer. He was passionate about opera and choral music, and voracious about reading that in his declining years was a great joy together with his extensive bonsai collection displayed in his Zen garden at his residence in Orange, Va. Dr. Hanburg is survived by his beloved wife, Caryll McConnell Hanbury, a long lost girlfriend from 55 years earlier, whom he married in 2000. He is also survived by three children: his daughter, Claudia Marie Hanbury Bleecker and her husband, Lorin, of Potomac, Md., and their five children, Cisne, Nicole, Chase, Ann Louise and Grayson; his daughter, Deirdre Hanbury Baer of Tualatin, Ore., and her daughter, Cheryl and two granddaughters, Emma and Lily; and his son, Euclid Murden Hanbury III of Lowell, Mass. He is also survived by a younger brother, John Paul Conwell Hanbury of Irvington, Va. Funeral services with the family will be private. Friends desiring to remember Euclid are requested to consider contributions to the University of Virginia Medical Foundation, 1952 Class Fund, P.O. Box 400807, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4807. Preddy Funeral Home, Orange, Va., is in charge of arrangements.