- Date Of Birth: July 3, 1925
- Date Of Death: July 25, 2006
- State: Texas
July 3, 1925 – July 25, 2006
Joseph Craft Ogle, M.D. was born July 3, 1925 in Mesquite, Texas. He graduated from Garland High School in 1942, then attended the University of Texas in Austin as premed student, where he met the love of his life, Mary Elizabeth Conn. On their first date they discovered that they shared the same birthday and they spent 58 married years celebrating that day. Dr. Ogle was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph Howell Ogle and Nancy Birdie Craft, his beloved wife, Mary Elizabeth Conn Ogle and brother, Jay Hal Ogle. He is survived by son, Robert Ogle, daughters, Cathy Ogle Morris, Cindy Ogle and Patricia Ogle (daughter-in-law), brothers, Jack Ogle and Bill Conn (brother-in-law), grandsons, Patrick Joseph Morris and Aaron Edward Ogle, Granddaughter, Allison Elise Ogle and numerous nieces and nephews. He graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA, in 1948, one month before his 23rd birthday, then served his internship at the University of Wisconsin Hospital under Dr. William S. Middleton. He then entered the navy and spent two years at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Corpus Christi. Dr. Ogle served a three year residency in Internal Medicine under Dr. Ben Friedman at the McKinney V.A. Hospital. He entered the private practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology in Oak Cliff in 1954, where he was active on the staff of Methodist Hospital and was in private practice in internal medicine for 40 years. During his medical career he was Chief of Medicine at the Methodist Medical Center, Fellow in the American College of Physicians, a clinical professor of internal medicine at Southwestern Medical School, University of Texas, President of the Dallas Chapter of the American Heart Association 1973-74, and President of the Texas Affiliate of the American Heart Association 1977-78. He was President of the Dallas County Medical Society 1975-76, and Speaker of the House of Delegates of the Texas Medical Association. He was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and a member of the Texas Club of Internists, a group he dearly was active in the community as a member of the Oak Cliff Lions Club, Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce, Oak Cliff Country Club and Elder and Past Chairman of the Board at Rosemont Christian Church. He loved golf and swimming, two loves that led him and Mrs. Ogle to Fair Oaks, Texas in 1992, after falling in love with the Texas Hill Country. He was a faithful member of the Genesis Class of First United Methodist Church in Boerne, and a beloved son, husband, brother, father, grandfather and uncle.
