Background
Farrar, Henry Cheairs was born on December 20, 1926 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Henry Cheairs and Nina Ellen (Mills) Farrar.
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Henry Cheairs Farrar
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Bachelor, U. Tennessee, 1948; Master of Science, U. Tennessee, 1950; Doctor of Medicine, U. Tennessee, Memphis, 1954; Doctor of Laws, Harding U., 1973.
Career
Intern, Tampa (Florida) Municipal Hospital, l954-55;
senior assistant surgeon, United States Public Health Service, Harlingen, Texas, 1955-1957;
resident in surgery, Miners Memorial Hospital, Harlan, Kentucky, 1958-1960;
senior surgery resident, City Hospital, Winston Salem, North Carolina, 1960-1962;
surgeon, Veterans Hospital, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1962-1964;
missionary surgeon, Nigerian Christian Hospital, Aba, Nigeria, 1964-1967, 70-73, 83-84;
missionary surgeon, Chimala Mission Hospital, Mbeya, Tanzania, 1979-1980;
surgeon, Goodlark Hospital, Dickson, Tennessee, 1967-1969;
surgeon, White County Hospital, Searcy, Arkansas, 1973-1982;
surgeon, Humana Hospital, Lebanon, Tennessee, 1985-1990. Member Tennessee Medical Board. Surgeon Carthage (Tennessee) General Hospital, since 1989.
Vis.prof. surgery China Medical U., Shenyang, Liaoning Province, 1982-1983.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee African Christian Hospitals, Searcy, since 1975. Founder Nigerian Christian Hospital, Aba, 1965. Christian Mobile Clinic, Kumba, Cameroon, Africa, 1968.
Elder Church of Christ, Lebanon, since 1987. Trustee Harding U., since 1993. Honorary trustee African Christian Schools, Nashville, since 1993.
Fellow American College of Surgeons (instructor advanced trauma life support 1989). Member Tennessee Medical Association Kappa Phi.
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Married Grace Angeline Johnson, December 2, 1950. Children: Paul, Martha, David, Henry III, Lee, Samantha.
