Extracted from The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)
HOLLIS PHYSICIAN FATALLY INJURED
Dr. William Husband, 59, prominent Hollis physician and surgeon, died Thursday night in a Detroit, Mich., hospital three hours after he was struck by an automobile at a Detroit intersection.
Husband had just arrived in Detroit accompanied by his wife to visit a son, Dr. William Husband jr., an interne at Grace Memorial hospital there. Arriving on an earlier plane than expected he went directly to his son's apartment, missing his son who had gone to the airport.
Dr. Husband was crossing the street to a drugstore to call his son at the airport when he was struck. Mrs. Husband collapsed at the scene and was under a physician's care at a hospital.
Husband, a doctor at Hollis for 30 years, operated a clinic and hospital there which served much of southwest Oklahoma.
Dr. Husband is survived by his wife, son, two daughters, Mrs. Robert P. Scott, Lawton, and Mrs. Robert Froeber, Winston Salem, N. C.; two brothers, Dr. Roy Husband, Hollis dentist, and Claude Husband, Hollis; and two sisters, Mrs. Carl Snider and Mrs. Minnie Bell, both of Hollis. Three grandchildren also survive.
A native of Montague, Texas, Dr. Husband attended Vanderbilt university at Nashville, Tenn.
Friday, September 26, 1947