William Ray (Bill) Engvall, M.D., was born May 8, 1934, in Temple, Texas, at Scott & White Hospital. He passed away on Oct. 31, 2018, from complications of Parkinson’s disease. A celebration of life will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24, in the Lois Perkins Chapel at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. There will be a reception immediately following. Please go to Eventbrite.com and search William Engvall to RSVP for the reception by Nov. 18. He was born to Swen Raymond Engvall and Mary Lela Richey Engvall of Georgetown, Texas. His mother, father and his daughter, Janet Engvall McTigue, preceded him in death. Bill is survived by his wife of 49 years, Mary Alice Miller Engvall; son, William Ray (Gail) Engvall; daughters, Judy (Shannon) Schooling and Jennifer (Richard) Jackson; and grandchildren, Emily and Travis Engvall, Annie McTigue, Mackenzie Gardiner, and Sarah and Justin Jackson. After graduating from Georgetown High School, Bill attended Southwestern University. He went on to medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He began his medical career as a general practitioner and served in the U.S. Public Health Service. During his service, he was assigned to Keams Canyon where he enjoyed working at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital. He then moved his family to Winslow where he worked as a private practice physician. In 1972, he moved his family to Richardson, Texas, to pursue further education as an anesthesiologist. In 1978, he moved the family to Temple, Texas, to work at Scott & White Hospital and teach Texas A&M medical students. He was kind, compassionate, creative, intelligent and very funny. He often said that medicine was his “first love”, but he was a man who truly loved life.
