William C. Revercomb II ’48

Bill’s lifelong medical career was as an internist, mostly in his hometown of Charleston, W.Va. Born in 1927, he attended Mercersburg Academy, accelerated through Princeton for a degree in biology, graduated in 1951 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, did a residency at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, was in Air Force service for three years, and then held a fellowship in internal medicine at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

He met Marjorie Jo Boston when they were both graduate students at Columbia, and they married in 1952. They returned from Dallas to Charleston, where Bill had 41 more years of medical practice and taught at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. He also became an accomplished gardener and an avid bridge player. His marriage to Marjorie Jo lasted 60 years, until her death in 2012.

He died Feb. 21, 2020, in Charleston. He is survived by sons William III and Stephen, daughter Carolyn, and three grandsons.