Dr. William Hinson

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Funeral services for Dr. William Mayberry Hinson who died October 18 in Vaughan Regional Medical Center will be Friday October 23 at 11 a.m. in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The Rev. Joseph S. Knight will officiate. Burial will be in St. Paul’s Columbarium, Lawrence-Brown Service directing. Visitation will be Thursday, October 22 in the Lower Hall of St. Paul’s, where his family will be pre-sent “to greet his family of patients.”
Dr. Hinson practiced medicine in Selma for more than 50 years, often stating that “the practice of medicine is a privilege and the greatest job in the world.”
The last years of his practice were with Dr. Park Chittom II, who said when learning of his death “He was my friend and role model, always happy to give advice without judgment, always with a joke on the tip of his tongue and always full of life even during the hardest of times. I feel lucky to have known him, lucky to have practiced with him. His life time of service is worthy of deep respect.”
He is survived by his two daughters: Nancy Warren Hinson and Dorothy Hinson Dennis (spouse Jeff); his granddaughters Mary Claire Powell, Carrie Hinson Dennis and Catherine Taylor Johnston; and his son-law Joe P. Johnston III, all of Selma.
Other survivors are his sisters-in-law: Margaret Anne Warren Terry of St. Louis; Dorothy Jane Warren Nisbet, Jacksonville; Donna Warren, Selma; and many cousins of the Heinz and Hinson generations.
Predeceasing Dr. Hinson are his parents Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe C. Hinson; his wife Nancy Warren Hinson; and his daughter Catherine Hinson Johnston.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Catherine Hinson Johnston Memorial Scholarship Fund; Wallace Community College Selma, P.O. Box 1571, Selma 36702-1571. The Hinson family wishes to express its deep gratitude for the devoted and conscientious care given Dr. Hinson by Dr. Samer Fahoum, Dr. Park Chittom II and Jan Stockman, R.N. and all nurses of the Fifth Floor Medical Intensive Care Unit.

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