Notes for: Eaner Peter Higgins

Following early schooling in Montana, attended Modesto Junior College, then the University of California at Berkley, before graduating from Loma Linda University Medical School in 1941. He interned at Edward Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, MI, where he met his wife Etta. He was in practice in Ceres, CA when World War II began, and he served as a medical officer with the U.S. Army until Feb 12 1946. After the war, he first took a residency at Stanislaw County Hospital in Modesto, CA, then moved to Kalispell, MT in Nov 1947, where he had a private practice until 1974 when eye surgery necessitated his retirement. In 1975 he joined the medical staff at Galen State Hospital, Anaconda, MT, and was appointed superintendent in 1976. He served in the same capacity at Warm Springs and was in charge of the physicians at the state prison at times during his tenure at Galen. He retired from Galen in Nov 1980, retiring to his home in Kalispell.