Dr. Melvin Hess

1925 - 1979  (53 years)

• Name	Melvin Hess
  Title	Dr.
  Born	27 Aug 1925	New York City, New York County, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Jan 1979	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
  Buried	16 Jan 1979	Hebrew Rest Cemetery #3 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  Person ID	I15395	Cody LeBlanc's Family Tree
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2025

  
  

  Family	Anne Lou Cabrol,   b. 8 Mar 1930, Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, USA ,   d. 16 Jun 2014, Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 84 years)
  Children	1. L.K. Hess   2. V.B. Hess
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2025
  Family ID	F6771	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 27 Aug 1925 - New York City, New York County, New York, USA Died - 15 Jan 1979 - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Buried - 16 Jan 1979 - Hebrew Rest Cemetery #3 - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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  Documents » Slide Show		U.S. World War II Draft Card - Melvin Hess Name: Melvin Hess Race: White Age: 20 Birth Date: 27 Aug 1925 Birth Place: New York, New York Registration Date: 8 Apr 1946 Registration Place: Bronx, New York, USA Height: 5' 9" Weight: 151 lbs. Complexion: Light Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Blue Next of Kin: Anna Hess
  		Medical School Position Filled Published in The New Orleans Times-Picayune on April 8, 1965
  		Dr. Hess States Cadavers Need Published in The New Orleans Times-Picayune on February 1, 1970
  		Obituary of Dr. Melvin Hess Published in The New Orleans States Item on January 16, 1979
  		Obituary of Dr. Melvin Hess Published in The New Orleans Times-Picayune on January 16, 1979

  
  

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  Obituary: Melvin Hess dead at 53; rites today Funeral services are scheduled at 2 p.m. today for Dr. Melvin Hess, professor emeritus of anatomy at Louisiana State University Medical School. Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home, 4127 S. Claiborne Ave., is in charge of arrangements, with Rabbi Murray Blackman officiating. Interment will be in Hebrew Rest Cemetery. Dr. Hess, 53, died in West Jefferson Hospital yesterday. Born in New York City, he received a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma, a master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Texas. Following work at Emory Medical School in Atlanta and an assistant deanship at the Pittsburgh University Medical School. Dr. Hess served as chairman of the department of anatomy at LSU Medical School from 1965 until his retirement in 1976 because of failing health. He served in both European and the Pacific as an Army enlisted man during World War II. Dr. Hess is survived by his wife, Anne Lou Cabrol Hess; two daughters, Lenora Hess-White and Valerie D. Hess; a sister, Lillian H. Mandel of Cedarhurst, Long Island, N.Y.; and a brother, Dr. Arthur Hess, Highland Park, N.J. (Published in The New Orleans States Item on January 16, 1979) Obituary: Hess Rites to Be Today Dr. Melvin Hess, professor emeritus of anatomy at Louisiana State University Medical School, died Monday in West Jefferson Hospital after a lengthy illness. He was 53. Funeral services have been scheduled for Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp Funeral Home, 4127 S. Claiborne Ave., with Rabbi Murray Blackman officiating. Interment will follow in Hebrew Rest Cemetery. A native of New York City, he took a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma, a master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis Mo., and a doctorate from the University of Texas. He was a faculty member of Emory Medical School in Atlanta and assistant dean of the medical school of Pittsburgh University and since 1965 the chairman of the department of anatomy at LSU Medical School until his retirement because of ill health in 1976. In 1977 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Texas. For four years he was program secretary for the American Association of Anatomists and was past secretary of the International Pan-American Congress of Anatomy, and an honorary member of the Mexican Society of Anatomists and numerous other professional organizations. During World War II he served in the Army in both the European and Pacific Theaters and was discharged a sergeant in the infantry. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Anne Lou Cabrol Hess; two daughters, Mrs. Lenora Hess-White and Miss Valerie D. Hess; one sister, Mrs. Lillian H. Mandel of Cedarhurst, Long Island, N.Y.; and one brother, Dr. Arthur Hess of Highland Park, N.J. (Published in The New Orleans Times-Picayune on January 16, 1979)