J. Bruce Galloway

Dr. J. Bruce Galloway, 91, of Arden, died on Tuesday, May 5, 2009, at St. Joseph Campus, Mission Hospitals. Born on March 27, 1918, in New York, NY, Dr. Galloway was the son of the late Dr. J.B. and Ethel Gibson Galloway. He grew up in Maplewood, NJ and attended Columbia High School. He received his high school diploma from Vermont Academy, in Saxrons River, VT, in 1937. He later attended the University of Virginia, and Queens University, in Kingston, Ontario, where he received his M.D. He then took rotating internships at Victoria Hospital, in London, Ontario, and in Norwalk General Hospital, in Norwalk, CT. Following the internships, Dr. Galloway did his orthopedic residency at Long Island Hospital, in Brooklyn, NY. He then moved to Asheville in January, 1949, and started his orthopedic practice. He was a diplomat of the American Board of Orthopedics, a Life Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, a charter member of the Eastern Orthopedic Association, a member for 50 years of the North Carolina Medical Society, and Buncombe Co. Medical Society, and a member of the Southern Medical Orthopedic Association, and the North Carolina Orthopedic Association. He also served as director of orthopedics at clinics in Newland, Spruce Pine, Bakersville, and Burnsville, NC for a number of years before retiring in January, 1987. He was a former commander of the Asheville Power Squad, and was a member of Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, where he was a deacon and a member of the Board of Elders. He is survived by his wife, Joyce DeLanoy Galloway daughters, Donna Lingerfelt, of Leicester, and Gail Muirhead, of Asheville; four grandchildren, Dennis and David Lingerfelt, and Ryan Muirhead and wife Nikki, and Robert Muirhead; and two great-grandchildren, Davonte and NaRyah. A funeral service for Dr. Galloway will be on Friday at 2:00 p.m. at Kenilworth Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Allen Smith officiating. Interment will follow at Calvary Episcopal Churchyard. His family will receive friends from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Rd., Asheville, NC 28803, or to Eblen Charities, 12 Regent Park Blvd., Asheville, NC 28806.