Obit: Charles P. Felton, MD
Charles Peter Felton, M.D., a Palisades resident, died Thursday, January 16, 2014. Chuck, who was 87, was born to Ruby and Eulalie Felton on May 6, 1926 in New Orleans, LA. He graduated from St. Augustine's Seminary in 1944, received a B.S. degree from Xavier University in 1949, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine at the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 1956. He and Hiroko ("Susie") Felton married in 1958, building a home together in Palisades, where they raised their three sons, Chucky, Koji and Mark.
Chuck was an esteemed Clinical Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Chief of Pulmonary Medicine at Harlem Hospital Center. He spent his career fighting against the spread of tuberculosis in America's urban communities, Haiti and beyond.
He traveled extensively around the world but loved most to spend time at home with family, gardening and cultivating his bonsai. He is survived by his wife, his sister Ramona, his three sons and his six grandchildren—Peter, Lena, Simone, Giulia, Nicholas and Ella.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the American Lung Association in New York or to the Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Clinic at Harlem Hospital Center.