| Thielen, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. 218318 |
| Birth: 03/26/1877 Death: 02/12/1955 Marriage: 10/30/1907 |
| Cemetery: Evergreen (20-07-02) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, 12 Feb 1955. 'Death of Dr. B.F. Thielen, 1023 Clarksville St, longtime Paris dentist, occurred unexpectedly from a heart attack, Saturday about 3:30 p.m. while he was in an office in First National Bank Building. Surviving are his wife and one daughter, Miss Isabel Thielen here; a niece, Mrs. G.T. Victory, Lubbock, and a nephew W.W. Reader, Houston. The funeral, Monday at 3 p.m. will be held at the Church of the Holy Cross, Episcopal, by the rector, the Very Rev. James W. O'Connell, and Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home will make burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Dr. Thielen, who came to Pairs in 1901, was a member of local, state and national dental associations, served on the state board of dental examiners; was installed as a regent of th American College of Dentist and held a life Membership in the American Dental Association. He was past president of the state organization. Benjamin Franklin Thielen was born at Brazoria, March 26, 1877, son of Charles J. and Anna (Krause) Thielen. He was educated at Sam Houston State College, Huntsville, and Vanderbilt University, holding a doctor of dental surgery degree and being a Fellow of the American College of Dentist. He married Miss Pearl Shelton, daughter of the late J.R. and Ann (Scott) Shelton in Paris, October 30, 1907. He was a member of Holy Cross Church, which he had served as a vestryman. A charter member of the Paris Rotary Club, he served as its president in 1923. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and belonged to Paris Golf and County Club. His professional associations were wide, including membership in Delta Sigma Dental Fraternity and Omicron Kappa Upsilon honorary fraternity. Pierre Fauchard Academy and the American Academy of Periodontology. He had done post graduate work in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, New York and Vienna, the latter during an extensive tour of the British Isles and continental Europe. He was a staff member of the Sanitarium of Paris and of Griffiths Children's Hospital and also served on the staff of Lamar General Hospital. In 1951, he was named a three year member of the Lamar County Advisory Board of Health. The esteem in which Dr. Thielen was held by his associates was demonstrated by the dinner tendered him on his 65th birthday attended by 125 dentist and their wives.' THE PARIS NEWS Mon., Feb. 14, 1955. 'Funeral services for Dr. B.F. Thielen, 1023 Clarksville St., were set Monday at 3 p.m. at Holy Cross Church, Episcopal, the rector, the Very Rev. James W. O'Connell, officiating. Burial was arranged in Evergreen by Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home, pallbearers being Fred A. Manton, Dr. Owen R. O'Neill, Dr. R.L. Lewis, Dr. A.L. Jones, Maury Robinson, John A. Scarborough, Jess A. McGill and John D. House, Jr. Dr. Thielen, long prominent in the dental profession's national organizations as well as locally, died unexpectedly Saturday afternoon of a heart attack.' On the same stone with Pearl Shelton Thielen and Margaret Isabel Thielen. |