Brolinson, Per Yngve

On the morning of May 7, 2015, in Blacksburg, Dr. Per Yngve Brolinson passed from the service of his fellow man into the service of our Lord in heaven. He emigrated from Sweden with his father (Bengt Gustav), mother (Ebba Louisa) in the early 1930s to New York City.

He attended college at Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey, where he majored in chemistry and was on the swim team. He subsequently matriculated for two years at the University of Pennsylvania Dental School before deciding dentistry was not for him.

He worked briefly as a brewing chemist in Philadelphia and later in St. Louis before attending medical school at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. He did his internship at Normandy Hospital in St. Louis and then began a more than 50-year career as a rural Family Physician first in Higbee and later Louisiana, Missouri. He delivered hundreds of babies and touched the lives of thousands of patients. He was dearly loved and will be missed by all.

He was preceded in death by his oldest son, Richard Kania (Ellie), and is survived by his children, Per Gunnar Brolinson (Lesia), Karl Erik Brolinson and Elizabeth Nixon (Peter); and grandchildren, Marja Brolinson, Becka Brolinson, Dawn Georgopolus and Michelle Sapoznikov.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Per Yngve Brolinson, DO Rural Family Medicine Scholarship at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2265 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg VA 24060. Arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home, Blacksburg.