Dr. Grubbs

Dr. Ernest Linwood Grubbs, who practiced medicine in Front Royal for more than half a century, died January 4, 1971. Dr. Grubbs was 90 years old.

A native of Riverton, Dr. Grubbs attended the public schools of Warren County, and was graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1904. He served his internship at a Marine Corps hospital in Chicago, and established his first practice in Botetourt County in 1905.

In 1915, he returned to Front Royal and opened an office for the practice of medicine, and for 55 years he served the community as a general practitioner. He could vividly recall the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919. A decade ago he estimated that he had delivered between 2,500 and 3,000 babies during his medical career in Front Royal. His practice pre-dated hospital facilities in the community, but the late Mrs. Sidney Johnson credited him with helping and encouraging her in opening and operating Johnson’s Nursing Home, a maternity hospital. Later, he was on the staff of the old Front Royal Community Hospital, and had been on the staff of the Warren Memorial Hospital since its opening in 19 51. His hobby was really medicine and he could be counted on at any time to do anything he was really asked to do.

His health began to fail about two years ago, and he retired last year, but had continued to see patients on a limited and emergency basis.

He was a member of The Medical Society of Virginia and the Alumnus Association of the Medical College of Virginia.

Dr. Grubbs had been a member of the First Baptist Church of Front Royal since boyhood. He was a member, also, of Col. John Singleton Mosby Camp 1237, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and of Unity Lodge 146, AF & AM. He had been a Mason for 63 years, and was a guest of honor at a recent 100th Anniversary Celebration of Lodge 146.

Besides his wife, he is survived by one daughter and two granddaughters.

Therefore, Be It Resolved that these resolutions expressing our profound loss of this most remarkable colleague be spread on the minutes and that the copies be sent to the bereaved family and to the Virginia Medical Monthly for publication.

Warren Memorial Hospital Medical Staff