Ulysses Haywood Stoer

SHREVEPORT, LA - A memorial service, celebrating the life of Ulysses Haywood (Hank) Stoer, M.D, will be held on Saturday, June 7, 2014 at Rose-Neath Funeral Home, 1815 Marshall Street, Shreveport. The service will begin at 11:00 a.m., with visitation beginning at 10 a.m. Rev. Barbara Jarrell will officiate. Dr. Stoer was born on September 6, 1919, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and passed away on May 9, 2014, at the Grace Home in Shreveport. He attended public schools in Shreveport, graduating from C. E. Byrd High School in 1937, after which he attended LSU University in Baton Rouge for pre-med. He graduated from LSU Medical School in New Orleans in 1943. He served his residency in Pathology at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, interrupted by serving two years as a Captain in the United States Army Medical Corps at Fort Lewis, Washington, after which he continued his Pathology residency at the (then) Charity Hospital in Shreveport. For the following two years, he was a clinical professor in Pathology at LSU Medical School in New Orleans, until he assumed the position of Director of Pathology at Schumpert Hospital, where he served until his retirement in 1985. After his retirement, Dr. Stoer continued his study and practice of his true passion of art by attending not only workshops of local artists, but also of nationally known artists, i.e., Judi Betts, Doug Walton, Frank Webb, and Jo Taylor. He has been an active member of the Hoover Watercolor Society and Men's Art Guild, serving both organizations as President. He also was a member of the Shreveport Art Club, Louisiana Artists, and the Southwestern Watercolor Society. His works were featured at two separate one-man shows at the Barnwell Art Center, one in 2004, and one in 2008. Dr. Stoer is preceded in death by his parents, Charles R. Stoer, Sr. and Virginia Brown Stoer; his brother, Charles R. Stoer, Jr., and his twin sister, Lillie Alice Stoer. He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Frances Digiovanni Stoer, his children, Dr. Erik H. Stoer and wife, Mary; Jan Stoer Routon and husband Edmond; Dr. Charles B. Stoer and wife Danielle. He is also survived by his step daughters, Diane Brewster Bienasz and husband Dr. Stanley M. Bienasz and Jann Pittman and husband David Riccardelli. He also has eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and two step-grandchildren. The family wishes to thank Dr. Roy Flenniken and Director of Nurses, Mrs. Louise Wiggins, and the entire staff of the Northwest LA War Veterans Home for the excellent care they provided Dr. Stoer. In addition, the family wants to acknowledge Maxine Frazier of the Anointing Hands of Care for providing not only reliable, but loving sitters for the past three and half years. In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorial donations may be made to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Rd., Shreveport, LA 71106 or to the donor's choice.