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FUNERAL NOTICE INFORMATION
Submitted by: Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home Phone: (504) 486-6331 Fax: (504) 483-8330
Account # LOO541C
Day(s) & Date(s) to appear: Thursday, January 1, 2009
Number of times to run: 1 Time
Funeral Director: Jean Newman
Name of Deceased: Gordon B. McFarland, Jr. M.D.
Gordon B. McFarland, Jr. M.D.
Surgeon, Professor
Dr. Gordon Burnett McFarland, Jr. died at his home in St. Tammany parish on Wednesday, December 24, 2008. He was 75. A native of Dallas, TX, Dr. McFarland was a resident of the New Orleans area for the last 47 years. He was educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Along with other surgical training including an internship at Emory University, he served his residency in orthopedic surgery at Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation. He practiced at Ochsner his entire career. Although the scope of his practice was wide, Dr. McFarland specialized in bone pathology and reconstructive surgery of the hand. While at Ochsner, he developed the artificial tendon in 1970. He has served as Acting Chairman and Associate Head of the Department of Orthopedics, Head of the Hand Surgery Division of the Department of Orthopedics, and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation and of the Board of Management of the Ochsner Clinic. He also was the longtime director of the Mary S. Sherman Laboratory of Bone & Joint Pathology at Ochsner. Throughout his career he has published numerous articles and textbook chapters on bone pathology and hand surgery and has lectured extensively at Tulane University and LSU Schools of Medicine. He was a member of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and President of the Louisiana Orthopaedic Association. He was dedicated to a career long association with the American Society for Surgery of the Hand in which he served in a number of capacities including Treasurer. In 2008, Dr. McFarland was presented the Thomas E. Weiss Outstanding Alumnus Award by the Ochsner Alumni Association. Dr. McFarland was active in a number of social organizations in New Orleans.
He was a remarkable authority on country & western, bluegrass and other forms of American music. He enjoyed nature photography and gardening and was a talented woodworker. For all of his achievements, he was an unpretentious man whose easy charm and unabashedly homespun sensibilities deeply endeared him to anyone he met at any level of station or intellect.
He was preceded in death by his wife Betsey Ebaugh McFarland and his brother Michael Alvin McFarland. He is survived by his wife, Suzy Wynne McFarland of Bush, LA, his brother John Samuel McFarland of Dallas, TX, his sons Gordon (Corky) Burnett McFarland III of Reston, VA and Wright Ebaugh McFarland of New Orleans, LA, his stepchildren Suzanne Friedrichs delaHoussaye of Metairie, LA, Adair Friedrichs Fox of New Orleans, LA and George Shelby Friedrichs III of Metairie, LA, and five grandchildren.
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services at LAKE LAWN METAIRIE FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. (in Metairie Cemetery) on Saturday, January 3, 2009. Visitation begins at 11:00 AM with the service at 1:00 PM. Interment will be private. Memorial donations may be sent on his behalf to Children’s Hospital at 200 Henry Clay Ave. New Orleans, LA 70118 tel. (504) 899-9511 c/o Development Office. To sign and view the Family Guestbook, please visit www.lakelawnmetairie.com
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1933 - 2008 (75 years)
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