James Brock Sr.

James Brock, Sr.

McComb

Father, Physician, Flugabonist, and Farmer - James Murray Brock, Sr., M.D. (91) died February 4, 2011, at his home in McComb, Mississippi.

Jim Brock was born in Mt. Hermon, Louisiana, on May 13, 1919, to Dr. Lucius William Brock and Dannie Lee Tate Brock. He graduated from McComb High School and attended the University of Mississippi, receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree (1941). In 1947, he received the Doctor of Medicine degree from Tulane University.

In 1960, Dr. Brock opened the Brock Skin Clinic where he practiced dermatology until June 2010. From 1960-1980, he also served as the Director of Dermatologic Surgery Clinic at Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans. Dr. Brock trained with Dr. Frederic Mohs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a founding member of the American Society of Mohs Micrographic Surgery.

In 2005, Dr. Jim received the Mississippi Health Care Association Volunteer of the Year Award for performances of his jazz ensemble, Dr. Jim's One More Time Band, in Pike County nursing homes. Dr.Brock continued to play jazz on Thursdays and hymns on Sundays in McComb through December 2010.

Dr. Brock is preceded in death by his parents, his wife of 33 years, Mary Ellen Prosser Brock, and long-time family friend, Lue Fane Alford. He is survived by five children, James Murray (Spunk) Brock, Jr. M.D. and his wife, Linda Young Brock of McComb, Lucius William (Dub) Brock, II of McComb, Dannie Ellen Brock Maples and her husband, Michael Dudley Maples, M.D. of Jackson, Mary Prosser Brock of McLean, Virginia, and Oliver Eugene Brock, II, and his wife, Tina Penick Brock of San Francisco, California; five grandchildren, Lea Ellen Brock Welborn and her husband, Jerry Ryan Welborn of Oxford, James Lucius Brock and his wife, Martha Boswell Brock of Oxford, Mary Ellen Maples Stancill and her husband, Jefferson Kendall Blake Stancill of Birmingham, Alabama, Nathan Dudley Maples, M.D. of Jackson, and Brock Michael Maples of Jackson; and one great-grandchild, Brock William Welborn of Oxford. He is also survived by a twin brother, Jep S. Brock, D.D.S., of McComb, younger brother, Ralph L. Brock, M.D., of McComb, and long-time assistant, Janice Rawls of Magnolia.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice Compassus, 140 North 5th St., Suite B. McComb, MS 39648 or First Baptist Church, McComb general fund.

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