Christian Norman Ramsey Jr. M.D.

Christian Norman Ramsey Jr., M.D., 67, of Lexington, Ky., formerly of Waco, died Saturday, June 21, 2008, from complications of Parkinson's disease. Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, June 26, at Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington. A memorial service will be held at a later date in Dallas. He was born May 30, 1941, in Atlanta, Ga., and graduated from Indian Springs School in Helena, Ala., in 1958, received his M.A. from the University of North Texas in 1966, and graduated from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Ga., 1970. That same year he was appointed to a White House Commission on Population Growth and the American Future by President Richard Nixon and served as its vice chairman with Chairman John D. Rockefeller III, for two years in Washington, D.C. In 1973, he began his family medicine residency training in Waco - completing it in 1976. He became the Director of Medical Education and the Director of the Family Practice Residency Program in Waco and continued in that capacity until 1982, when he was named Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. He held that post until 1994 when he was named the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of Kentucky School of Medicine. He retired from UK in 2000. During his medical career, he wrote and edited several textbooks, published numerous articles, and served in many leadership positions associated with family medicine. One of his greatest accomplishments was an endowed chair in family medicine named in his honor at the University of Oklahoma for his exemplary accomplishments in this field. He was a member of Christ Church Cathedral and a former member of The Lexington Club and Idle Hour Country Club. He is survived by his children, Christian Ramsey III, M.D., of Lexington, and Anne Hadlock Ramsey of Houston; his former wife, Patricia Hadlock Ramsey of Lexington; and two brothers Robert Pringle Ramsey of Birmingham, Ala., and Willis Alan Ramsey of Wimberly, Texas. Memorials can be made to The Christian N. Ramsey Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair in Family Medicine of the University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc., 100 Timberdell Rd., Norman, OK 73019, or The Music Committee of Christ Church Cathedral, 166 Market St., Lexington, KY 40517. Condolences for the family may be left at www.milwardfuneral.com W. R. Milward Funeral Home, Lexington May 30, 1941 - June 21, 2008 Sign the Guest Book at www.wacotrib.com