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William Hale Simon © Enid News and Eagle 06-05/6-2020 Submitted by: Glenn
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July 27, 1929 - June 04, 2020
Dr William Hale Simon
On Thursday, June 4th, 2020, Bill Simon, age 90, passed away at his home in Enid, Oklahoma. Bill was born on July 27th, 1929, in Alva, Oklahoma, to William E. and Miriam Simon. He attended the University of Oklahoma where he earned his M.D. in 1954. He did his Pediatric residency at Children's Hospital in Oklahoma City and Ohio State University. He served as a Flight Surgeon for the US Air Force before moving to Enid and establishing his Pediatric practice in 1959.
Bill was an outstanding diagnostician and a well-respected Pediatrician. During the course of his career, he received numerous accolades as well as professional and community awards. He had a love for the outdoors, was an avid hunter, and took great pride in his involvement with the Grand National Quail Club. He collected antiques and during his retirement authored a book on the Civil War.
He is survived by his wife Carolyn, his children William E., Patricia, Mary Lou, Scott, Jeffrey, Julie, Ryan. He is also survived by sixteen grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren, spouses of his children and grandchildren and his brother Robert.
He is preceded in death by wife and son Mary Elmore Simon and David Simon.
Viewing will be held at Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home June 6th between the hours of 8am and 9pm and Sunday, 8am to 12 noon. A memorial honoring Dr Simon is being planned for a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Oklahoma Medical Association, Wounded Warriors, First United Methodist Church, and the Grand National Quail Club with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home serving as custodians of the funds.
Condolences may be made online at www.ladusauevans.com. From Ladusau Evans
Interment
Location
Memorial Park Cemetery
Supplemental:
6 Jun 2020 -- front page
Longtime Enid pediatrician remembered for work with kids
By Alexander Ewald
Staff Writer
Longtime Enid pediatrician Dr. William Simon died in his home Thursday. He was 90.
Simon retired in 2015 after practicing for almost 56 years, coming to Enid to join Northwest Pediatrics in 1959. “It’s been a long time,” he said upon his retirement. “But I love the kids and I’ve always enjoyed what I was doing.
“I went out to the mall one time around Christmas, and all the kids came up and hugged me, and my daughter said, ‘You’re better than Santa Claus!’” The hugs were plenty, Simon’s longtime colleague at Northwest, Dr. John Provine, told the News & Eagle on Friday.
“He had families that swore by him,” said Provine, who also now is retired. “They looked to him for everything, and ... that was a wonderful doctor-patient relationship. And when you do pediatrics, you don’t just have the patient, you have the parents.”
Simon was born in Alva on July 27, 1929, to William E. and Miriam Simon. He came from a family of doctors: his younger brother Robert had retired a year before, and his father was a doctor in Alva.
Simon received his M.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1954, then completed two pediatric residencies at the Oklahoma City Children’s Hospital and at Ohio State University. He served as a flight surgeon for the Air Force before moving to Enid to join the practice in 1959.
Dr. Robert Shuttee founded Northwest Pediatrics after World War II, when specialized pediatrics was a new concept to Northwest Oklahoma. Provine joined in 1976, and a fourth partner, Dr. Keith Wilson, came aboard in 1978. For many years, Provine said, the four partners shared a good camaraderie.
“We shared our knowledge with one another and we looked over one another’s shoulders,” Provine said. Their practice reported the first case of then-novel Kawasaki’s disease in the state. Other rare cases Simon saw included tick paralyses and the youngest child diagnosed with insulinoma, a tumor in the pancreas that causes low blood sugar, at the time.
During the course of his career, Simon received numerous accolades, as well as professional and community awards.
“The best move I’ve ever made was coming to Enid” he said in 2015. “We have a good community with good folks, and you couldn’t ask for better citizens and better patients.
“I was never disappointed that I came to Enid.”
He is survived by his wife, Carolyn, and his children, William E., Patricia, Mary Lou, Scott, Jeffrey, Julie and Ryan. He is also survived by 16 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, spouses of his children and grandchildren, and his brother, Robert.
He was preceded in death by wife Mary Elmore Simon and son David Simon.
Visitation for Simon will be 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to noon Sunday. A memorial will be held at a later date.
Condolences may be made online at ladusauevans.com.
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