Dr. Thomas M. Feeny

Dr. Thomas M. Feeny

OGDEN - Thomas Mercer Feeny, M.D. passed away peacefully at his Ogden home on Monday evening July 9th.

He was born November 30, 1917 in Ogden to Margaret Mercer Feeny and Thomas Stephen Feeny.

He attended Ogden schools until graduation from Ogden High School in 1936.

At that time he entered college at Northwestern University on the Evanston, Illinois campus. He graduated in three years and attended Northwestern Medical School in Chicago, where he graduated in 1942, thereafter serving a one-year internship at St. Luke''s Hospital in Chicago.

Following completion of his medical training he joined the army and was dispatched to California for World War II army duty in Menlo Park, California, to await being called overseas.

He then served as a medical officer in the South Pacific, mainly the Philippines, from 1943 to 1945, with the 24th Infantry Division.

With the ending of the war in 1945, he was sent to Japan with the army of occupation in a medical unit. He served there a year before returning home with the rank of Major in the summer of 1946.

He began a three year term of study as a resident in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Salt Lake County Hospital and the Dee Hospital in Ogden; and obtained his American Boards Certification in OB/GYN.

After completing his residency, he joined the doctors Vernon Ward, Vernal Johnson and Lindsay Curtis in the Ogden Women''s Clinic.

He was married to Catherine "Kay" Farr on July 21, 1947 in Ogden. After he became a member of the L.D.S. Church and the 41st Ward, they were married in the Ogden Temple.

He was a member and served as president of the Weber County Medical Society, Ogden Surgical Society, Utah State Obstetrics & Gynecological Society, the Grey Berets; and was a member of the Utah State Medical Association, the Rotary Club of Ogden (50 years) Sons of the Utah Pioneers, and the Ogden Golf & Country Club. He was Chief of Staff at both the Dee/McKay and St. Benedict''s Hospitals.

He enjoyed skiing and did so avidly and regularly until the age of eighty, serving on the Ski Patrol at Snow Basin for 30 years.

He was a man of honor and integrity, and his boy scouting and the practice of medicine with his love of his patients, as with his family, constituted the strongest and dearest motivation of his life.

He is survived by his wife and children, Thomas Feeny, Craig (Shannon) Feeny, Cathy L. Labatte, Julie (Larry) Huras, and Scott (Elaine) Feeny, and grandchildren, Jessica Labatte, Kevin Labatte, Brett Huras, Stephanie Huras, Ryan Huras, Caitlin Feeny, Sarah Feeny, Travis Feeny, Heather Feeny and Sean Feeny.

Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 11 a.m. at the Waterfall Canyon Ward Chapel, 3254 Polk Avenue.

There will be a viewing at Lindquist''s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Boulevard on Friday, July 13 from 6 until 8 p.m. Friends may also call at the Ward Chapel before the services on Saturday from 9:30 until 10:30 a.m.

Interment, Ogden City Cemetery.

Email condolences to the family at: www.lindquistmortuary.com