Daniel Wooding Sartor MD, FACS

A memorial service with Holy Eucharist for Daniel Wooding Sartor, MD, FACS, age 84, will be held at Grace Episcopal Church, Monroe, LA on Monday, December 26, 2011 at 11:00 am. Officiating will be Reverend Jon Roberts and The Reverend Canon Gregg Riley. The family will receive friends in Kilbourne Hall from 9:00 am until the time of the service.

Dr. Sartor was born in Alto, LA on October 20, 1927. He passed away on Friday, December 23, 2011 with his children and grandchildren by his side. He is preceded in death by his parents, Frank Balfour Sartor and Earline Williams Sartor and his brother, Fred W. Sartor, MD.

Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Jane Sayre Sartor, and their children, Daniel W. Sartor, Jr., Frank B. Sartor, MD and wife Forrest, Dorothy Sartor Davidson and husband Ronnie, Elizabeth Sartor LeGros and husband Clay of New Orleans, and Thomas S. Sartor and wife Annmarie. He is also survived by his nine grandchildren, Georgie Sartor Brown and husband Matthew, Daniel W. Sartor, III, Harold Dixon Sartor, Sarah Jane Sartor, Thomas S. Sartor, Eliza B. Sartor, Christopher M. Rainwater and wife Trava, Elizabeth Jane LeGros, Clay Justin LeGros, Jr., and two great grandchildren, Sophia M. Rainwater and Eliza B. Brown.

Other survivors include his brother, George M. Sartor, MD and his wife Marilyn, his sister-in-law, Tommie Sue Sartor Hubenthal and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Dan grew up in Alto and attended school in Mangham, LA through his junior year. He graduated from Rayville High School in 1944. He served in the US Navy at the end of WWII. In 1951, he graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1955. He was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Kappa Phi scholastic honor societies.

Following medical school, he interned one year and served a four year surgical residency at the Confederate Memorial Medical Center in Shreveport, LA. In July of 1960, he and Jane moved to Monroe where he became an associate in the practice of general surgery with Drs. Fred W. Sartor and Jack Tom Jackson. He was certified by the American Board of Surgery in 1961 and obtained fellowship in the American College of Surgeons in 1963. Dr. Sartor served on the medical staffs of St. Francis Medical Center, Glenwood Medical Center, North Monroe Hospital and on the visiting staff of E.A. Conway Hospital. He was president of the Ouachita Medical Society from 1985 - 1986. After serving the medical community for 32 years, he retired in 1992.

In retirement, Dr. Dan (Poppa) enjoyed travelling and spending time with family. One of his hobbies was building pirogues to use while duck hunting on the family farm which was his favorite retreat. Dan was devoted to his God, family, medical practice, and patients. He was a member of Grace Episcopal Church. He will be missed by the numerous people whose lives he touched.

The family requests that memorials be made in lieu of flowers, to Grace Episcopal Church Organ Fund, Louisiana Baptist Children's Home, or your charity of choice.

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Monroe, LA