hee 25 De. Frank Hier Apel ¥/ 7° Born in Belleville, doctor devoted life to battling cancer ‘FRANKLIN T. MILES, M.D. Belleville Dr. Frank Miles, 75, died in Belleville March 10 and funeral Dr. Sam and Margaret Hutt, all of Belleville. He was predeceased by brothers William, John, Fred, Gordon and re Belleville Funeral Chapel with Rev. Dr. Hal Wilsot and Rev. Dr. Neil Miles ofllating Burial Waste Bellerile On Cemetery. in Belleville in 1914, Dr. Miles attended Belleville Col- legiate. As the second youngest in me a farnily of 11 chil necessary to deliver two different newspapers on an extensive route. In 1934 he ent leen’s University, Faculty of Medicine. During his second ye: won the Leonard Scholarship for dissecting and in the third year he was ond in his class and won the Scholarship for the highest ‘aan for written .D.) and Master of Surgery degree (C,] He was a teaching Department of Anatomy, Montreal until the end of the 1941 session. S) 's then undertook post graduate studies in radiology, first ingston General Hospital and Es he passed his examinations diagnostic and therapeutic mesial eadtely logy. he became Director of Radiology in Sarnia, Ont. starting a cancer clinic in 1949, the first of its ent and Research Foundation I was patterned after a clinic in Man- chester, England and included the first use of radium. As a pioneer, he achieved 100 per cent cure rates for 8 om za8 58 B8 ri diagnostic, therapeutic and nuclear medicine. Practicing radiology in the Detroit area, was also Associate Professor o! Medicine at Wayne State Universi- ty. As was his natural love for medicine, he continued to study and became a licentate from the Medical Board of Florida in eneral fpedicine, surgery and receog ny more intimate Hospital in la. from 1972 until his retirement in “903. However, he continued to} be active and as the founding presi- dent of the Visiting Nurses Associa- tion of Hardee County in 1978, he served as president until 1988. wey ti seat he was a member of e Florida Medical Association, the Radiological Society of North America ani merican Diabetes Association. ir. Miles was reed among his is to have superior medical nowledge. However, he was also a «friend to all; always interested In everyone and what he could learn from them, no matter their station life. in life. When diagnosed at the end of January as having a non-treatable brain tumor, he treated the course 2 cd FS > ES a s < 3 with many of his friends and made the trip from Florida visiting along the way until his destination in Belleville, where he enjoyed a final round of visits and was burted In his hometown March 13 |