Dr. Edwin Forrest Yancey MD, 32°
(Nov 3, 1858-Nov 21, 1941)
Member, Pleasant Grove Lodge #142

32° Consistory of Western MO, Kansas City

Member, Ararat Shrine Temple

Occupation: Physician; Chief of Staff at Bothwell Hospital, Sedalia, MO; Medical Director for the Missouri, Kansas, Texas Railroad CO.
Alumnus: Missouri Medical College, St Louis, MO.
Past President of the Missouri Medical Society and the Pettis County Medical Society, member of the National Association of Chief Surgeons. He had a fellowship with the American College of Surgeons.

Interred: Crown Hill Cemetery, Sedalia, MO.

Dr. Edwin Forrest Yancey, 83 years old, retired medical director for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad company, died today at his home. He had been ill a year. Dr. Yancey was born in Otterville, Mo., and graduated from Missouri Medical college, St. Louis, was a former president of the Missouri Medical society and the Pettis County Medical society, a member of the American Medical society, the National Association of Chief Surgeons, a representative of the American Railway Association in the Medical and Surgical association, and had a fellowship from the American College of Surgeons.

He practiced in Clifton city, Missouri, two years before moving to Sedalia in 1885. He soon was appointed house surgeon under Dr. W. P. King at the M.K.T. hospital (Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad), then also used by the Missouri Pacific. Promotions came until February 1, 1937, when he retired after fifty-two years of continuous service. He had been chief of staff at Bothwell hospital in Sedalia since its opening in 1930.

He was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Ararat Shrine in Kansas City, a past exalted ruler of the Sedalia Lodge of Elks and a charter member of the Sedalia Country Club. Mrs. Beulah Harris Yancey, active in music circles throughout Missouri, survives. Judge Brown Harris of the circuit court in Kansas City is a brother-in-law.