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Dr Joseph Otto Segura
of Vermillion Parish, Louisiana and
Jackson,
Mississippi
Joseph Otto was born and raised in the Vermillion Parish
area around Lake Peigneur the son of
Odra
Emmanuel Segura and Emethilde Broussard.
According to an article in the Abbevile
Meridional,
he graduated from Abbeville High School
in
1906. After finishing medical school
at Tulane
University Medical School he attended
Harvard
Medical School in 1910 where he specialized
in pediatrics. During a school break
Mabel
Weston came to Louisiana with a friend
from
New Iberia, Iberia Parish, Louisiana.
She
and Joseph Otto met and were later
married
at Jesuit Church in New Orleans March
17,
1910.
He graduated from Tulane Medical School
in
1909 and a year at Harvard Medical
School
in 1910 specializing in pediatrics.
He initially
began the practice of medicine at the
Abbeville
Hospital in Vermillion Parish, Louisiana.
He then set up practice in Biloxi,
Mississippi
for a year, but moved to Houston, Texas
and
practiced there until the outbreak
of World
War I in 1918. He joined the US Army
Medical
Corps and was stationed at Runnie Mead,
England
for 2-1/2 years, until the war was
over.
The family spent this time in Logtown,
Hancock
County, Mississippi living with the
Weston
family.
Upon his return from the war in 1919,
he
became associated with the Lamar Life
Insurance
Company in Jackson, Mississippi as
the Medical
Director. He became Vice President
in 1931;
and from 1932 to 1939 he was also the
Agency
Director. He was a member of the board
for
more that 20 years.
Joseph Otto Segura died while visiting his
family in Erath, Vermillion Parish, Louisiana
on 26 October 1946 at 12:10 A.M. at the age
of 59. He died in the Abbeville Hospital
where he started his medical career. Services
were held on 28 October 1946 at St. Peter's
Catholic Church in Jackson, Hinds County,
Mississippi. Monsignor William J. Leech officiated
with internment at 9:30 A.M. in the Lakewood Memorial Park near Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi.
His children were Horatio Weston Segura
and
Dorothy Heloise Segura.
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