Carl Allen Dillaha

Dr. Carl Allen Dillaha Jr. died Tuesday, Dec. 27, at Cogdell Memorial Hospital.

Graveside service for Dr. Dillaha will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Hillside Memorial Gardens with Dana Mayfield, minister at First Presbyterian Church, officiating. The service will be under
the direction of Bell-Cypert-Seale Funeral Home.
Visitation will be held from 6-7 p.m. Thursday at
the funeral home.

Born on Oct. 25, 1924 to Carl A. and Thelma Cashion Dillaha in Little Rock, Ark., he attended
public schools in Little Rock, and graduated from Little Rock High School in 1942. He attended
Little Rock Junior Colliege from 1942-43 and joined the U.S. Navy where he was part of the V-12 program and sent to Tulane University in New Orleans from 1943-44. He attended U.S. Navy Midshipmen school at Northwestern University in
Illinois. In September 1944 at 19 years of age, Dr. Dillaha was one of the youngest Naval officers in U.S. Navy history. He married Helen Biggadike in Little Rock, Ark. on Aug. 30, 1947. She preceded him in death in February 1996. He graduated from the University of Arkansas
School of Medicine with a medical doctorate degree in June 1951.

Dr. Dillaha moved to Snyder and opened a private practice in family medicine with Dr.
Thomas Hartley on Aug. 1, 1953. He was on the original medical staff of Cogdell Memorial Hospital
and served as the chief of staff. He is believed to have delivered more than 4,000 babies. Dr. Dillaha closed his practice in August 1989 and accepted a faculty appointment with the Texas
Tech University Health Sciences Center as medical director of the Price Daniel Unit in Snyder.

He retired from Texas Tech and returned on contract as a unit physician for the Price Daniel
Unit and served as the medical director of Snyder Oaks Care Center and Snyder Healthcare
Center for several years. Dr. Dillaha was also the medical director for Local Odyssey Healthcare
Hospice.

Survivors include his wife, Margaret; two sons, Steve Dillaha and his wife Samantha of Snyder and David Dillaha of Lafayette, La.; one daughter, Maribeth Dillaha Bunn of Abilene; a stepson, Max Drum and his wife Valerie, of Snyder; one sister, Janice Young of Oakland, Calif.; one grandson, Jonathan Burton; and one
great-grandson, Vandon Burton of Abilene.