Dr. Rolland E. Greenburg, of Easley, SC, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on June 8, 2008. Born January 5, 1919 in Whiting, Indiana, to Roland Everette and Helen Marie Greenburg, he was raised in Whiting and attended college at Purdue University and the University of Indiana, where he graduated in 1943 with a degree in Chemistry. His parents preceded him in death; his mother in 1946 and his father in 1947 and his younger sister, Jane Minette Greenburg, in 1992. He is survived by his wife of fifty-one years, Vera. Dr. Greenburg was commissioned in the US Navy in 1943 and served in Destroyers in the Southwest Pacific prior to being selected to attend medical school at Loyola University in Chicago, IL, as part of the wartime Navy V-12 Program. Following graduation from medical school in 1946, he served an additional twenty-three years as a Navy Flight Surgeon during which time he served on numerous aircraft carriers, in carrier air groups, aircraft squadrons, shore based hospitals, and medical dispensaries. While stationed at the Naval Air Station in Key West, FL, he served as attending physician to President Harry S. Truman. Dr. Greenburg retired from active duty in 1969 in the grade of Captain. In the thirty-nine years since retiring from the Navy, he has worked as a contract surgeon on the Flat Head Indian Reservation in St. Ignatius, MT; as Chief Medical Officer for the California Women's Prison in Chino, CA; as the physician for the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, NM; as an advisor to the South Carolina Council on Aging in Camden, SC; and as a physician for the South Carolina Dept. of Health and Human Services where he provided OB/GYN care in Barnwell and Allendale Counties. Additionally, over the course of his medical career, Dr. Greenburg conducted successful private practices in Indiana, Illinois, Montana, California and South Carolina. Not only highly accomplished in the medical profession, he was also dedicated to its betterment and the maintenance of high ethical and professional standards through his membership and active participation in the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the International College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons. Additionally, he was a founding member of the American College of Abdominal Surgeons. Through a medical career of over forty years he delivered over 6, 000 babies. Dr. Greenburg is also survived by four sons, Rolland E. Greenburg, III, Attorney-at-Law, and his wife Pat of Columbia, SC; David S. Greenburg, Lt Col USMC Ret and Professional Logistician, and his wife Lisa of Daniel Island, SC; Joseph A. Greenburg, Professional Engineer, and his wife Luanne of Easley, SC; and James R. Greenburg, CDR USN, and his wife Cynthia of Carlisle, PA. Dr. Greenburg had six grandchildren, Megan and husband Joe Monroe of Columbia, SC; Nicki and husband Victor Demondo of Easley, SC; Kate, Emily and Claire Greenburg of Daniel Island, SC; and Jessica Greenburg of Carlisle, PA; and one great grandchild, Jackson Monroe of Columbia, SC. Visitation will be held from 10:45 to 11:45 am Friday at Thomas McAfee Funeral Home, Northwest. The funeral service will follow at 12 Noon. Burial will follow at the M.J. "Dolly" Cooper Veterans Cemetery in Anderson, SC. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Attention: Development Department, 2160 South 1st Avenue, Maywood, Illinois 60153. Dad, we love you and we will miss you. Thank you for your love, guidance, and life well lead that set an example of duty and responsibility in which you always placed people above personal gain. "Lord guard and guide the men who fly through the great spaces in the sky. Be with them always in the air, in darkening storms or sunlight fair; Oh hear us when we lift our prayer for those in peril in the air." The Navy Hymn.
