St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - January 14, 1994
Dr. Gene B. Starkloff, surgeon and professor, died Tuesday (Jan. 11, 1994) of infirmities at Mari De Villa Nursing Home in west St. Louis County. He was 79 and had made his home for years on Westminster Place in the city's West End.
Dr. Starkloff was one of the pioneers in intestinal bypass surgery for grossly overweight people. In his non-medical pursuits, he played a bit of professional baseball, served in an embassy and wrote a book on the finer points of running field trials for Labrador retrievers.
His father was Dr. Max C. Starkloff, the city health commissioner whose name later graced the old City Hospital as its formal name.
The senior Starkloff passed along medical lore to his son, who at age 7 could identify by name all 208 bones in the human body. He jumped from the first grade to the fifth.
Later, he spent a little time in the farm system of the old St. Louis Browns but gave up any notion of a sports career in favor of medicine. Washington University awarded Dr. Starkloff his bachelor's and medical degrees, the latter in 1939.
In World War II, the Army commissioned Dr. Starkloff and sent him to Rio de Janeiro. There, as a lieutenant colonel, he commanded the military medical detachment and also served the U.S. Embassy as its assistant military attache.
For a decade or so, Dr. Starkloff taught surgery at St. Louis University Medical School. Among his medical affiliations was membership in the American College of Surgeons.
Impatient with the state's medical bureaucracy, he surrendered his medical license in 1992, almost 15 years after his retirement. Dr. Starkloff gave up the document, which he had kept for sentimental reasons, rather than sign an affidavit promising to refrain from practicing medicine unless he took 25 hours of continuing medical education each year.
Dr. Starkloff's horn-rimmed glasses and bearish, 6-foot-1 physique lent him a commanding presence. But he charmed acquaintances with his talent for storytelling, and a daughter, Rebecca Busselle, the writer, recalls him as a man gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary.
His wife of 32 years, Elizabeth Egan Starkloff, died in 1980. Among survivors, in addition to Busselle, who lives in New York, are a daughter, Kathleen von Starkloff of Winthrop, Mass., and three grandchildren.
There will be no visitation. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of St. Louis University Medical Center. The burial service will be private, at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Louis University Hospital, in care of the T.E. Pitman Funeral Home, 909 Pitman Avenue, Wentzville, Mo. 63385.
Dr. Gene B. Starkloff, surgeon and professor, died Tuesday (Jan. 11, 1994) of infirmities at Mari De Villa Nursing Home in west St. Louis County. He was 79 and had made his home for years on Westminster Place in the city's West End.
Dr. Starkloff was one of the pioneers in intestinal bypass surgery for grossly overweight people. In his non-medical pursuits, he played a bit of professional baseball, served in an embassy and wrote a book on the finer points of running field trials for Labrador retrievers.
His father was Dr. Max C. Starkloff, the city health commissioner whose name later graced the old City Hospital as its formal name.
The senior Starkloff passed along medical lore to his son, who at age 7 could identify by name all 208 bones in the human body. He jumped from the first grade to the fifth.
Later, he spent a little time in the farm system of the old St. Louis Browns but gave up any notion of a sports career in favor of medicine. Washington University awarded Dr. Starkloff his bachelor's and medical degrees, the latter in 1939.
In World War II, the Army commissioned Dr. Starkloff and sent him to Rio de Janeiro. There, as a lieutenant colonel, he commanded the military medical detachment and also served the U.S. Embassy as its assistant military attache.
For a decade or so, Dr. Starkloff taught surgery at St. Louis University Medical School. Among his medical affiliations was membership in the American College of Surgeons.
Impatient with the state's medical bureaucracy, he surrendered his medical license in 1992, almost 15 years after his retirement. Dr. Starkloff gave up the document, which he had kept for sentimental reasons, rather than sign an affidavit promising to refrain from practicing medicine unless he took 25 hours of continuing medical education each year.
Dr. Starkloff's horn-rimmed glasses and bearish, 6-foot-1 physique lent him a commanding presence. But he charmed acquaintances with his talent for storytelling, and a daughter, Rebecca Busselle, the writer, recalls him as a man gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary.
His wife of 32 years, Elizabeth Egan Starkloff, died in 1980. Among survivors, in addition to Busselle, who lives in New York, are a daughter, Kathleen von Starkloff of Winthrop, Mass., and three grandchildren.
There will be no visitation. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of St. Louis University Medical Center. The burial service will be private, at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Louis University Hospital, in care of the T.E. Pitman Funeral Home, 909 Pitman Avenue, Wentzville, Mo. 63385.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - January 14, 1994
Dr. Gene B. Starkloff, surgeon and professor, died Tuesday (Jan. 11, 1994) of infirmities at Mari De Villa Nursing Home in west St. Louis County. He was 79 and had made his home for years on Westminster Place in the city's West End.
Dr. Starkloff was one of the pioneers in intestinal bypass surgery for grossly overweight people. In his non-medical pursuits, he played a bit of professional baseball, served in an embassy and wrote a book on the finer points of running field trials for Labrador retrievers.
His father was Dr. Max C. Starkloff, the city health commissioner whose name later graced the old City Hospital as its formal name.
The senior Starkloff passed along medical lore to his son, who at age 7 could identify by name all 208 bones in the human body. He jumped from the first grade to the fifth.
Later, he spent a little time in the farm system of the old St. Louis Browns but gave up any notion of a sports career in favor of medicine. Washington University awarded Dr. Starkloff his bachelor's and medical degrees, the latter in 1939.
In World War II, the Army commissioned Dr. Starkloff and sent him to Rio de Janeiro. There, as a lieutenant colonel, he commanded the military medical detachment and also served the U.S. Embassy as its assistant military attache.
For a decade or so, Dr. Starkloff taught surgery at St. Louis University Medical School. Among his medical affiliations was membership in the American College of Surgeons.
Impatient with the state's medical bureaucracy, he surrendered his medical license in 1992, almost 15 years after his retirement. Dr. Starkloff gave up the document, which he had kept for sentimental reasons, rather than sign an affidavit promising to refrain from practicing medicine unless he took 25 hours of continuing medical education each year.
Dr. Starkloff's horn-rimmed glasses and bearish, 6-foot-1 physique lent him a commanding presence. But he charmed acquaintances with his talent for storytelling, and a daughter, Rebecca Busselle, the writer, recalls him as a man gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary.
His wife of 32 years, Elizabeth Egan Starkloff, died in 1980. Among survivors, in addition to Busselle, who lives in New York, are a daughter, Kathleen von Starkloff of Winthrop, Mass., and three grandchildren.
There will be no visitation. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of St. Louis University Medical Center. The burial service will be private, at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Louis University Hospital, in care of the T.E. Pitman Funeral Home, 909 Pitman Avenue, Wentzville, Mo. 63385.
Dr. Gene B. Starkloff, surgeon and professor, died Tuesday (Jan. 11, 1994) of infirmities at Mari De Villa Nursing Home in west St. Louis County. He was 79 and had made his home for years on Westminster Place in the city's West End.
Dr. Starkloff was one of the pioneers in intestinal bypass surgery for grossly overweight people. In his non-medical pursuits, he played a bit of professional baseball, served in an embassy and wrote a book on the finer points of running field trials for Labrador retrievers.
His father was Dr. Max C. Starkloff, the city health commissioner whose name later graced the old City Hospital as its formal name.
The senior Starkloff passed along medical lore to his son, who at age 7 could identify by name all 208 bones in the human body. He jumped from the first grade to the fifth.
Later, he spent a little time in the farm system of the old St. Louis Browns but gave up any notion of a sports career in favor of medicine. Washington University awarded Dr. Starkloff his bachelor's and medical degrees, the latter in 1939.
In World War II, the Army commissioned Dr. Starkloff and sent him to Rio de Janeiro. There, as a lieutenant colonel, he commanded the military medical detachment and also served the U.S. Embassy as its assistant military attache.
For a decade or so, Dr. Starkloff taught surgery at St. Louis University Medical School. Among his medical affiliations was membership in the American College of Surgeons.
Impatient with the state's medical bureaucracy, he surrendered his medical license in 1992, almost 15 years after his retirement. Dr. Starkloff gave up the document, which he had kept for sentimental reasons, rather than sign an affidavit promising to refrain from practicing medicine unless he took 25 hours of continuing medical education each year.
Dr. Starkloff's horn-rimmed glasses and bearish, 6-foot-1 physique lent him a commanding presence. But he charmed acquaintances with his talent for storytelling, and a daughter, Rebecca Busselle, the writer, recalls him as a man gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary.
His wife of 32 years, Elizabeth Egan Starkloff, died in 1980. Among survivors, in addition to Busselle, who lives in New York, are a daughter, Kathleen von Starkloff of Winthrop, Mass., and three grandchildren.
There will be no visitation. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of St. Louis University Medical Center. The burial service will be private, at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Louis University Hospital, in care of the T.E. Pitman Funeral Home, 909 Pitman Avenue, Wentzville, Mo. 63385.
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