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Doctors

Numerous doctors are buried in Fountain Park Cemetery, several of them being found in Section 18. The ones in Section 18 known to be local physicians are Dr. William Dinniger, Dr. Cecil Paul Deckard, Dr. Lowell Painter and Dr. Howard Koch.

Drs. Dinniger, Painter, and Koch practiced during the time doctors made house calls to their patients. They had offices in Winchester, but were also very active making house calls to patients and put quarantine signs on may of those houses due to infectious diseases. The quarantine signs were coded according to their severity. Red was the most severe.

The doctors carried many types of drugs with them so that they could administer what was needed without the need for an office call. Their doctor bags were do heavy they caused callouses on their palms.

Dr. Dinninger operated out of his home on South Main Street. Dr. Koch moved his residence to East Franklin Street and built an office on South Brown Street in Winchester.

Dr. Cecil Paul Deckard was born in Elwood, Indiana on January 4. 1934. He graduated from Elwood High School and Ball State University in Muncie, where he met his wife, Betty Ellen Peters. He then entered medical school in Kirksville College of Medicine in Missouri and completed his medical internship in Michigan prior to returning to Lynn, Indiana. There he built an opened the Lynn Medical Clinic in 1968. He retired in 1984 due to ill health. He received a heart transplant in 1988 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Dr. Deckard passed away on February 22, 2014, 26 years after receiving his heart transplant. Dr. Deckard served in the US Army where he obtained the rank of Lt. Colonel and 38th Infantry Division Surgeon.

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