DR. GEORGE R. WEEKS

Dr. George Robert Weeks, 71, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Jan. 9, 1998, at the Lutheran Home.

He was born April 2, 1926, in Eldon, son of Curtis Graham and Freda Walker Weeks.

He married Joan Manuel Feb. 3, 1951, in Wichita, Kan. She survives.

Weeks was an anesthesiologist. He opened a private practice in Cape Girardeau in 1959 and worked until retirement in 1987.

He was founder of the Cape Girardeau County Anesthesia Group. He was a member of the Cape Girardeau County Medical Society, Missouri Medical Society, American Medical Association, St. Louis Society of Anesthesiologists, Missouri Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. He was a past president of the MSA.

Weeks received a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas at Lawrence, a master's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh and a Fellowship in Anesthesiology from the University of Minnesota.

Weeks was of the Unitarian faith.

He served in the U.S. Navy in the V-12 Program during World War II, from 1943 to 1946.

He is survived by two sons, Robert Weeks of Cape Girardeau and Drew Weeks of Marietta, Ga.; a daughter, Melissa Weaver of Los Angeles; a sister, Margaret Wright-Foote of Lebanon, Mo.; and three grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother.

There will be no visitation or funeral service.

Ford and Sons Funeral Home was charge of arrangements.