Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 10:01:53 :
Independent Journal
Tuesday, April 15, 1980
Page 4
DR. WESTON V. HALES
Dr. Weston V. Hales of Novato, nationally known in the field of prosthodontics, died Monday in a local hospital after a short illness. He was 54.
Hales had been associate chief of dentistry and prosthetics chief for the U. S. Public Health Hospital in San Francisco since 1971.
He was born and reared in Logan, Utah, and was a graduate of Utah State University. He graduated from Marquette University’s dental school in 1959 and became a commissioned officer in the Public Health Service the same year.
He was an officer with the service for 30 years until retirement last September.
Hales also graduated from the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases at New York University in 1979 and after that time became a prosthodontic specialist.
He had been chief of the dental divisions and staff deputy chief at various hospitals in the country.
Hales was a member of numerous professional organizations and was widely published in dental journals, magazines and books. He also lectured and taught at the University of California in San Francisco and the University of the Pacific.
Hales was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Second Ward, of Novato.
Surviving are his wife, Eva Dee Hales of the family home in Novato; two sons, Robert W. Hales of Seattle and Rancy Scott Hales of Salt Lake City; one daughter, Madeline Adams of Dubois, Idaho; five sisters, Frances Anderson of Sacramento, Imogene Wilkinson of New Orleans, Marjorie Anderson of Glendale, Los Angeles County, Ann Stalder of Pocatello, Idaho, and Jane Mayhew of Newport, Wash.; two brothers, Lee Hales of Logan, Utah, and Clinton Hales of Torrance, Los Angeles County; and eight grandchildren.
A son, Kurt F. Hales, died earlier.
The funeral will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Novato. Burial will be in the Logan Cemetery in Utah.
Friends may call at Redwood Chapel in Novato from 7 to 9 tonight.
The family prefers memorial contributions to children’s Hospital, in care of Leon Nelson, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Center Road and Kendon Lane, Novato 94947.
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