James Morris Graham, M.D.

James Morris Graham, M.D. , passed away April 11, 2007, in Austin at
the age of 86. He was the only child of Noah Oscar and Mollie May
Graham, born on March 28, 1921, in Cisco. He graduated from Newman
High School in Sweetwater in 1938, and attended the Texas
Technological College in Lubbock (later known as Texas Tech
University) where he majored in arts and sciences and was a member of
the Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Medical Fraternity. He graduated from the
University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston with a doctor of
medicine degree in 1944 and went to Jefferson Davis Hospital in
Houston for his internship.

In 1943, he enlisted in the United States Army, where he served as a
captain and received the World War II Victory Medal, the American
Campaign Medal and the Army Occupation Medal. He then received his
residency training from Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital in San
Antonio and Brackenridge Hospital in Austin in 1948.

He remained in Austin and began a private practice that would span
49 years. He was a member of the Travis County Medical Society, the
Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the
Texas Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Family
Physicians, the American Board of Family Practice, the American
Academy of Family Practice, the American College of Family Practice
and TEXPAC. He served as president of the Travis County Medical
Society in 1976 and Physician of the Year in 2000 and as a member of
the Board of Trustees of the Texas Medical Association for 10 years,
and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Texas Medical
Association Insurance Trust.

He was an avid hunter and fisherman, and particularly enjoyed yearly
vacations in Creede, Colo., where he became an expert fly fisherman.
He was also an avid U.T. Longhorn football fan, and helped create the
Bevo Medicos, a group of doctors who loved the game.

Following his retirement in 1997, he remained actively involved in
the medical community and enjoyed spending time with his family and
friends and writing a book about his life.

Jim is survived by his wife, Martha Graham, daughters Pam and her
husband, Edmund McIlhenny, Nancy, her husband, Kenneth Ehrig, and
their children, Kevin and Susan, Jet, her husband, Robert Eckels, and
their daughter, Kirby; stepdaughters Tina, her husband, Will Houston,
and their sons, Bradley and David; Nancy, her husband, Mike Keasler,
their daughter, Christina, her husband, John Davenport, and their
daughter, Madeline; stepson Hank Lawson; and cousin Ruth McLendon.
The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, April 13,
2007, at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home.

A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. on April 14, 2007, at the
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd.

Honorary pallbearers will be Edmund McIlhenny, Robert Eckels,
Kenneth Ehrig, Mike Keasler, Will Houston, Darrell Royal, Robert
Snider, Otto Brandt, Clift Price, Sam Key Jr., George Lowe, Robert
Askew, Cliff Jones and Oscar Howard.

Arrangements by Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home