John-Burke McDevitt, born in 1917, son of Justin and Elma, father of Lindsay, North and Dana, died on November 19, 2007 at 90 years old. Please consult the obituary here:
McDEVITT--John Burke, M.D., 90, passed away November 19, 2007 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He was the son of the late Justin and Elma McDevitt of Charlotte, North Carolina. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1917. His father, Justin McDevitt, was the founder of JJ McDevitt Construction Company, a leading construction firm of the South, which is now part of Bovis Lendlease. John graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 1938 and then received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1943. He served two years as a Captain in the US Army Medical Corps. He completed his residency at the Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas from 1946 to 1948 and then became board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1949. His psychoanalytic training was at the Psychoanalytic Institute in New York with a specialty in Child Psychoanalysis. In addition to his private practice, he published numerous ground-breaking studies in child development, was a lecturer, Director of Research and a key co-investigator with Margaret Mahler of the Margaret S. Mahler Psychiatric Research Foundation. John had a love of the outdoors which included riding his bicycle at lunchtime in Central Park in NYC (while listening to the selected works of Sigmund Freud) or sailing his catamaran on Lake Waramaug in Connecticut. He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Dr. Valery Lanyi; daughters Dana McDevitt of Charlotte, North Carolina and Lindsay Wood and son-in-law Richard Wood of North Yorkshire, England; stepson Paul Lanyi and wife Kristi Harris of El Segundo, California; niece Tadge Pennington of Greensboro, North Carolina; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his sister, Mary McDevitt Penningon and stepson George Lanyi. In lieu of flowers or gifts, please send contributions to the Margaret S. Mahler Foundation at 254 Kent Road, Wynnewood, PA 19096. Memorial plans will be forthcoming.
On November 22, 2007 (New York Times, , États-Unis)
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