IRA CLAIR LIEBRAND

© Published in Enid, OK. News

August 29, 2006

Submitted and © by Sylva Rhodes

© Glenn

IRA CLAIR LIEBRAND

Dr. Clair Liebrand, retired physician and resident of Walla Walla, WA since January 2003, died Thursday, July 20, 2006. He was 82.

Ira Clair Liebrand was born June 13, 1924 at Helena, OK to John St. Clair Liebrand (1894-1975) and Edith Stein Liebrand (1893-1994), wheat farmers. During his first year of college he enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve and in July 1943 was called to active duty with the Navy V12 program at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Discharged after 2 1/2 years, he remained at UVA and received his M.D. degree on his 25th birthday, June 13, 1949. During his second year of a two- year rotating internship at the University of Virginia Hospital, he was recalled to two years of active duty by the Navy during the Korean Conflict, and was loaned to the U.S. Army Medical Corps for the first eight months of that time.

Following honorable discharge at the rank of lieutenant, he commenced a three year residency in internal medicine at the University of Oklahoma hospitals in Oklahoma City. He was chief resident form 1954 to 1956. It was at this time that he met and subsequently married his wife of 50 years, Esther Groom Liebrand, M.D. Following his marriage, he was in sole private practice in internal medicine for 40 years in Bartlesville, OK. He served terms as chief of medicine and chief of staff at the Bartlesville hospitals and president of the Washington-Nowata County medical societies. He was a board member and medical consultant to the Samaritan Counseling and Growth Center in Bartlesville for many years; a board member and charter member of the Bartlesville Choral Society with which he sang for 25 years; and for several years played cello in the Bartlesville Symphony.

In retirement he volunteered many hours with the Green Country Free Clinic in Bartlesville and as a docent at Woolaroc Museum in the Osage Hills. In Walla Walla he volunteered at Helpline and sang with the Walla Walla Choral Society and was a member of the Central Christian Church.

At his request, there will be no funeral service. His remains have been interred in Good Hope Cemetery near his birthplace in Helena, OK, beside the graves of his son, John St. Clair Liebrand (1958-1995), his parents and grandparents, and near other family members.

He is survived by his wife, Esther and by his son, Frederic Donovan Liebrand, and Frederic’s wife, Edith. He is also survived by Frederic and Edith’s children, Andrew and Myriam, and by two sisters, Mary Lou Foltz of Billings, OK, and Jo Ann Barron of Tulsa, as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his son, John and by two sisters, Barbara Mason and Jean Masquelier, and by two nephews, John and Jeffrey Masquelier.

(Paid Obit 8-29-1)