JOHN P. LONG

Dr. John P. Long Prominent Astoria Physician Dies

The people of this community were greatly shocked Monday morning of this week to learn that Dr. John P. Long, a prominent and highly respected Astoria physician, had died suddenly at a sanitarium in Peoria, where he went on Friday of last week for special treatment.

While it was generally known that the Doctor was failing in health for sometime, yet none of his friends regarded his condition as serious. About a year ago he suffered a nervous breakdown, from which, due to his impaired health, he was unable to overcome.

Dr. Long was united in marriage to Miss Hazel Danner, March 20, 1910, and is survived by his wife and one daughter Julia Margaret; one brother, Emerson of Wyoming, Ill.; and three sisters, Mrs. Julia Snare of Flarissant, Colo., Mrs. J. T. Holmes of Lewistown and Mrs. Ralph Shawver of Astoria.

Dr. Long was an upright, conscientious physician, always striving to live up to the “Golden Rule,” in his dealings with his fellow men. He practiced medicine for twenty years in Astoria. He enlisted in the Spanish-American war, but owing to its sudden culmination, was not called to service. In 1918 he enlisted in the World War, was sent to Chattanooga, Camp Greenleaf, for training, then was transferred to Newport News, where he served in the Embarkation hospital. After the Armistice was signed, he was placed in the Debarkation hospital, where he did duty for eight months. The great strain which he was forced to undergo in his work, had its telling effect upon his constitution.

The deceased was a member of the Masonic lodge, the American Legion and the Federal Reserve. He was a lieutenant in the medical corps of the army and a captain in the reserve army.

Funeral services were held this morning at the residence at 11:00 o’clock, conducted by Rev. W. R. Seitzinger, pastor of the local U. B. church. The American Legion post had charge, giving a military burial, at the Astoria cemetery.

Published in the Argus-Search Light on 10/19/1927