Kemper McCloud

Kemper McCloud WYTHEVILLE, Va. Dr. Kemper McCloud, age 88, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, at Beth Shalom Home in Richmond, Va. from end stage Parkinson's disease. Kemper McCloud was born on July 13, 1923, in Lebanon, Va. the only son of Kemp and Lucy McCloud of that city. On Sept. 8, 1943, he married Aline Wright of Lebanon the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Carl Wright. Like so many of their contemporaries they met in high school, married in the midst of war, had a child, and returned from war to go off to college at Emory and Henry and then to the Medical College of Virginia on the GI Bill. In so many ways, Kemper McCloud was a man of his generation. A man shaped by a world war that saw him serve his country as a medical corpsman in battle on Normandy's Beaches, in Northern France, in the Ardennes Forest and then into the Rhineland. Like so many of his brothers in arms, the experience of that war profoundly changed him and set him on a new course that he would never have imagined before the war. In 1951, Kemper McCloud graduated from Dental School at MCV, the only dental class in the history of MCV to be all veterans. After graduation he and Aline came home to Southwest Virginia to Marion where he would practice dentistry and together they would raise their family. In the years that followed, he would take an active leadership role in scouting where two of his sons, Robert and Mark became Eagle Scouts and along with their father members of the prestigious "Order of the Arrow." Dr. McCloud was appointed to serve on the Virginia Board of Dentistry by then Governor Charles Robb in the 1980's and he later served as a dental examiner. He retired from the practice of dentistry in 1990 and he and his wife Aline moved to Wytheville to enjoy their farm in the Cove Section of Wythe County. Kemper McCloud is survived by three sons, David McCloud of Richmond and his wife, Judith Blevins McCloud, Robert McCloud also of Richmond, and Mark McCloud and his wife, Karen Willis, of Prospect, Ky.; two grandsons, Patrick McCloud of Richmond and Jonathan McCloud of Blacksburg, Va.; a granddaughter, Ashley McCloud Bardon of Powhatan, Va.; and his great-grandson, Cameron Kemper McCloud of Richmond. Kemper McCloud was preceded in death by his father, Kemp McCloud in 1960; by his mother, Lucy Waldron McCloud in 1985; and by Aline, his wife of 59 years, in 2002. The family will receive visitors at the Seaver-Brown Funeral Home in Marion, Va. from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, followed by a funeral service for Kemper McCloud at 8 p.m. with the Rev. David Brunk officiating. Burial will follow on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, at 11 a.m. in the West End Cemetery in Wytheville. Expressions of sympathy may be made to the family at www.seaverbrown.com Seaver-Brown Funeral Service and Crematory is serving the McCloud Family.