Grady

A memorial service for Dr. Thomas Grady Baskin, Sr., 88, of Tyler will be held on Tuesday, May 1st, at 10:00 a.m. at Stewart Family Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. Baskin passed away, Friday, April 27, 2012 at ETMC Hospital in Tyler. He was born in Cameron, TX on December 15, 1923, the youngest child of Roy and Toresa Denson Baskin. His premed education was at the University of Texas at Austin and he graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, doing his internship at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York and a residency in neuro-psychiatric medicine at John Sealy Hospital at Galveston and Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio. He was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army, serving as Chief of Neuropsychiatric Staff, Station Hospital, Fort Dix New Jersey. He was honorably discharged having attained the rank of Captain. He was certified as a Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry in 1953 and elected to Fellowship, American Psychiatric Association in 1957 and in 2003 he was awarded the title of Distinguished Life Fellow. He was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1958. In 1996 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians. Dr. Baskin was a member of the American Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, the Smith County Medical Society and past President of the Titus Harris Society. He was a leader in the development and implementation of the present-day practice of medical dispensing of generic pharmacotherapeutic drugs. Dr. Baskin also served on the Board of Directors of Cumberland Academy and as Chairman of the Steering Committee for Tom McCall Ministries. His parents, Roy and Toresa Baskin, brothers, John Lane Baskin, M.D. and Roy Howard Baskin, M.D, preceded him in death. His loving wife of 65 years, Jean Ridall Baskin and their children Grady Baskin, Jr., Lee Baskin Rogers and her husband, J.W. Rogers, Jr and Barbara Baskin Korte and her husband, Mark Korte and numerous grandchildren and two great-grandchildren survive him.

Grady

December 15, 1923 - April 27, 2012