Dr. M. H. Brinker dies Sunday (7 Jun 1953) Had Practiced Here Since 1943.

M. H. Brinker, M.D., 60, prominent physician, died Sunday morning at the Greene county hospital where he had gone to call on his patients.

Marion H. Brinker, M.D. was born October 12th, 1892 at Defiance, Iowa, the oldest child of Marcus and Edith Brinker. While a boy his parents moved to Waukomis, Okla. and he attended high school at Enid Okla.

He returned to Iowa and obtained his BA degree from Drake University, Des Moines. Upon graduation he was united in marriage with Martha Carolyn Voss and they are the parents of two sons,-Ray Allen, who will enter the College of Medicine this Fall at Iowa City and Jerry Ellis, who will be a senior in the Jefferson High School.

After teaching mathematics for several years at the High School and Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee, Oklahoma and at the High School in Iowa City. After graduation in 1930 and serving a year of internship at St. Anthony's Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Dr. Brinker returned to Iowa and practiced at Yate until 1943 when the family moved to Jefferson where he continued his practice until his death. Surviving, besides his wife and two sons, are his mother, two brothers and two sisters all of Waukomis, Okla.

He was Past Master of Meteor Masonic Lodge, 563, Yale, Iowa and a member of Morning Star Lodge, 159, of Jefferson, a member of the Lions Club and a past president of the Dallas-Guthrie and Greene County Medical Societies and a member of the American Medical Association.

Following a prayer service Tues. morning at the Slininger chapel in Jefferson, the body was taken to Enid, Okla. where services will be held at the Brown funeral home and burial in the Waukomis cemetery.