M. Beckett Howorth ’43

Beck died Oct. 13, 2012, in Oxford, Miss. He left our class and transferred to the University of Mississippi. He earned a medical degree from Vanderbilt University in 1946.

Beck served in the Navy until 1949 and then moved to Marks, Miss., where he was a general practitioner until 1953. He then began a surgical residency at the Veterans Hospital in Memphis and taught at the University of Tennessee Medical School.

In 1963, he moved to Oxford, Miss., to become head surgeon at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Beck retired in 1987 and served as medical director of the hospital and as a member of the board of the Oxford School District.

His wife, Mary, predeceased him. Beck is survived by four sons, 12 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. The class extends sympathy to them all.