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Submitted: 8/30/23 • Approved: 8/30/23 • Last Updated: 9/2/23 • R582541-G0-S3
January 29, 1930-September 27, 2014
Captain Medical Corps
USN
Retired
Wed December 20, 1953
Shared stone with Sara McVey Hart
Children: George Patrick, John Wesley, Mary Frances, Sarah Lynn, And Jack Don
Please see military marker
*Photo, courtesy of Ruth Teal
*Obituary
Dr. George B. Hart, Captain USNR (Ret.), devoted husband, loving father, researcher and patriot, passed from this earth Saturday, September 27, 2014 with his family by his side. George Babe, as he was affectionately known, is survived by his wife of 60 years Ms. Sara McVey Hart, his children George Patrick, John Wesley, Mary Francis, Sarah Lynn, and Jack Don, his brother Bill Don, 10 grand-children and 8 great-grandchildren, he was preceded in death by his mother Alice Mae, father George Wesley, sister Mary Francis, and brother Derral Wood.
George Babe was born in Lamesa Texas on January 29, 1930 at home on North Fourth Street and attended Lamesa High School and graduated from Seagraves High School as Salutatorian in 1947. He was an Eagle Scout (Order of the Arrow). He graduated from Texas Christian University in 1952 and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1956. He entered the United States Navy in 1957 and served as the Regimental Surgeon to the 6th Marine Division, as Chief of Surgery of the Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Naval Hospital Long Beach, California. George Babe continued in scouting by becoming a scout master, Sea Explorer Skipper and was one of the first to develop the Medical Explorer programs in Long Beach, California and in Corpus Christi, Texas. As skipper of the Sea Explorer Post, Guantanamo Bay, his SCUBA scouts were the only unit allowed to exhibit their skills at the 12th World Scout Jamboree held July 31, 1967 at Farragut State Park, Idaho on all days of the exhibitions. Dr. Hart was an internationally acclaimed leader in hyperbaric medicine, as well as a renowned thoracic, vascular and trauma surgeon, an expert on diving medicine, and served as Associate Professor of Surgery, at the University of California, Irvine. After his retirement from the United States Navy in 1977, Dr. Hart established the Hyperbaric Medicine Program at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, a program that became internationally recognized as the pre-eminent center for hyperbaric expertise, research and education under his leadership.
Services will be held Monday, October 6, 2014 at 10:00 AM at the Branon Funeral Home, 403 North Austin Ave., Lamesa, Texas 79331 under the direction of Minister Mark Hackett. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations in Dr. Hart\u0027s memory be made to the Memorial Medical Center Foundation Hyperbaric Medicine Fund (please contact 562-933-4483 to donate) or to the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (please contact the Executive Office to donate, Phone: 919-490-5140).To send condolences online, please visit www.branonfuneralhome.com.
https://www.branonfuneralhome.com/obituary/dr-hart
Contributed on 8/30/23 by neldapat
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