Dr. Dilley with a patient in the new wing of Pocahontas Memorial Hospital at Marlinton, West Virginia, in 1958. Charles Kermit Dilley was born January 5, 1914, at Huntersville, W.Va., the son of Hevener and Icy Amanda Sharp Dilley. He graduated from Edray District High School, BS from WVU, and MD from Northwestern University in 1941. He interned and received his surgical residency at Harper Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. During World War II he served four years in the US Navy. He married Geraldine Buckley, of Buckeye, in 1938 and they were the parents of Charles Kermit, Jr., Martha Kay, and Elizabeth Buckley. Dr. Dilley practiced medicine in Marlinton from 1947 until his death on April 15, 1961. (Extension Homemakers Album Collection, Courtesy of Louise McNeel; ID: PHP007561)
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