Funeral Rites Will Be Held Thursday For Dr. Dusthimer
Funeral service for Dr. Oren Isaiah Dusthimer, 82, will be conducted at the Hills funeral home at 10:30 o’clock Thursday morning with Rev. Edwin Fontaine of the First United Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park by the William Thompson and Son funeral home.
Dr. Dusthimer, a widely known physician and surgeon, died late Monday night in Bethesda hospital where he had been a patient since early that morning. He had practiced medicine for 52 years mostly in this city.
The doctor had been living at the Zane hotel. He was hospitalized several times during recent months but had continued a limited practice until shortly before his last illness. In recent years he had maintained offices at 23 North Seventh street.
Dr. Dusthimer was a native of Linnville in Licking county. He was born Jan. 1, 1876, the son of John Wilson and Nan Hart Dusthimer.
After he was graduated from Denison university in 1903, Dr. Dusthimer enrolled at Ohio State Medical school where he received his degree in 1906.
He began his practice in rural Muskingum county. He opened his first office in Mount Sterling and a year later moved to Sonora. In 1914 he came to Zanesville.
Dr. Dusthimer was honored in June, 1956, when the Muskingum County Academy of Medicine presented him with a 50-year pin. He also received a certificate of distinction from the Ohio State Medical association.
Dr. Dusthimer spent a summer in Europe where he did post-graduate work at the Idelsburg clinic in Vienna and at the Koker clinic in Berne, Switzerland. He was a member of the American Medical Association for the Study of Goiter and county, state, and national medical groups.
He was a member of Central Presbyterian church and a charter member of the Central Brotherhood. He was also a longtime member of the Exchange club.
His wife, the former Abigail McCollum, a native of Cambridge, died Sept. 11, 1955.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Duncan Harrison of Wheelersburg, O., a son, John, of Columbus, and three grandchildren.
The Times Recorder, Zanesville, 15 October 1958, pp. 1 & 14