Ninth Generation

16379. Dr. Thomas Lawman Lucas MD was born in 1910 in China. Dr. Lucas died on 24 August 2003 at the age of 93 and was buried at Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, Charleston Co., SC.⁴²⁵¹⁹

Born in Soochow, China of missionary parents, Dr. Lucas grew up in Chesterfield, graduated from the University of South Carolina and received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 1935. He was the fourth generation of his family to graduate from MUSC. He completed his residency at Roper Hospital and trained at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC.

From 1936 through 1946, he served in the US Army rising to the rank of full Colonel, while serving as division surgeon of the 303rdMedical Battalion of the 78thLightening Division. He saw action in the Battle of the Bulge and his division captured the Remagen Bridgehead over the Rhine River. Dr. Lucas received a Bronze Star for using a bulldozer to rescue wounded soldiers from a minefield. While in the military he also attended the Army School of Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Lucas practiced family medicine in Alexandria, Virginia from 1946 through 1977. He was past president of the Alexandria Medical Society, the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians and the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians. He was a member of the Council of the Medical Society of Virginia, a member of the board of directors of the American Academy of Family Physicians and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

After retirement from private practice, Dr. Lucas worked at DC Village in Washington, DC, at the Naval Hospital in Charleston, SC and with his son in private practice in Charleston. He was married to the former Jane Hill Agnew until her death in 1989 and is survived by his wife of 13 years.

Dr. Thomas Lawman Lucas MD and Jane Hill Agnew were married. Jane died in 1989.