Obituaries
Robert J. Tchou
- September 22, 1977
ROBERT J. TCHOU, M. D.
Dr. Robert J. Tchou, Williamson surgeon and
co-owner of Williamson Memorial Hospital, was
killed in an airplane crash near there on
September 22. He was 56.
Doctor Tchou was trying to take off from the
Mingo County Airport when his single-engine
Piper Cherokee apparently stalled and crashed
into a hill near Chattaroy.
Doctor Tchou, who had resided in W illiamson
since 1953, became a partner of the William-
son hospital with Dr. Russell A. Salton in 1964.
A native of Shanghai, China, Doctor Tchou
completed his undergraduate and medical edu-
cation in that country, receiving his M. D.
degree in 1946. He came to this country in
1948.
He served his internship, residency, and com-
pleted postgraduate work, at West Virginia Uni-
versity Hospital, Fourth Municipal Hospital of
Shanghai, St. Francis and Kanawha Valley hos-
pitals in Charleston, and George Washington
University.
Survivors include the widow; three children
at home, Patrick Tchou, Robert J. Tchou, Jr.,
and Heather Alicia Tchou; two other sons,
Michael Tchou of Blacksburg, Virginia, and
Sonny Tchou, a doctor in Peking, China; an-
other daughter. Honey Tchou, also a doctor in
Peking; the father, Dr. T. T. Tchou of Shanghai,
and a brother, Richard Tchou of Shanghai.
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