Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
D.J. VanLandingham dies; was local doctor
Dr. David Jennings VanLandingham, 67, of 2348 Lake Circle Drive died Sunday in Mississippi Baptist Medical Center after a brief illness.
Funeral services are incomplete.
He is survived by his wife, Leatrice A. VanLandingham; two sons, David J. VanLandingham Jr. of Pascagoula, Dr. Paul D. VanLandingham of Jackson; a daughter, Rebecca L. Waugh of Woodstock, Vt.; two brothers, Zach J. VanLandingham of Hilton Head, S.C., Jack J. VanLandingham of Jackson; a sister, Charlotte Triplett of Jackson; three grandchildren.
He was graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine and had practiced internal medicine here since 1949.
He was a deacon of First Baptist Church and was a past president of the Baptist Medical and Dental Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention. He also had served short-term missions in Gaza and Bangladesh.
He was a former president of the Mississippi Chapter of the American Heart Association and was a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Memorials can be made to the Mississippi Heart Association or to any medical mission.
Monday, March 2, 1981