William Geoffrey “Bud†Wysor, Jr., 81, died Thursday, January 3, after a long struggle with prostate and bone cancer, at his home in Chapel Hill.
He was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Ruth Puckett and W.G. Wysor, founder of Southern States Farm Supply Company.
He received his B.A. and M.D. from the University of Virginia, with post-graduate training at Yale University and the Medical College of Virginia. He married Ida Lee Lauck of Lexington, Virginia in 1953 and soon after entered private practice in South Boston, Virginia. They moved to Chapel Hill in 1957, where he served as Associate Professor of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine until 1969. He then returned to private practice with Durham Internal Medicine Associates, retiring in 1990.
He was a member of the AMA, Sigma Xi, the Raven Society, the Lawn Society at the University of Virginia, the North Carolina Medical Society, the Durham-Orange County Medical Society, and the Hope Valley Country Club. Honors included teaching awards from the UNC School of Medicine and from Escola Paulista de Medicina in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he served as a visiting professor.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Ida Lee Lauck Wysor; his children: Ruth Whitefield and her husband Bob of Chapel Hill; Karen Mears of Dallas, Georgia; Geoffrey Wysor and his wife Tammy of Greensboro; and Benjamin Wysor and his wife Jane of Elizabeth City; and six grandchildren. Also surviving are his sister Betty Pearman and her husband Stuart of Dallas, Texas; and two nephews.
A private memorial service will be held Sunday, January 6 at the Church of the Holy Family, with Father Timothy Kimbrough officiating. A celebration of his life will take place in February. Memorials may be made to the church, or to the charity of your choice.
Arrangements by Cremation Society of the Carolinas.