Dr. Thomas Y. Kimball, 65, widely known throughout this community as “Dr. Tom” and one of the old type country doctors, died Tue in a Detroit hospital following an illness of several years.
Until three years ago, when ill health forced him to retire from active practice, Dr. Kimball made calls on foot, by car, horse and snowmobile. Friends recalled he frequently shoveled deep snowdrifts ahead of his horse so he could get to a patient.
Dr. Kimball was born in Wellsboro, PA, and moved with his parents to Fife Lake when a boy. After completing his education in Grand Rapids and Milwaukee, he practiced in Lake City and then in Kalkaska, where he was a partner of the lake Dr. E.B. Babcock. Later he went to the upper peninsula and to Minnesota returning to Fife Lake in 1909. He moved to Manton in 1913 and had resided here since. Dr. Kimball was a member of the Manton Masonic Lodge
