Life Story: Dr. George William Nordholtz Eggers Jr.
Obituary describing the life of a local doctor / 851 words / The Columbia Missourian
When you talk to people who knew Dr. George William Nordholtz Eggers Jr., you can tell how they knew him by the different names they call him.
He is “Dr. Eggers” or “Bill” in the medical community. “Billy” to the crowd he grew up with in Galveston, Texas. “Doc” to his poker-playing buddies. “Dad” and “Grandpa” to his family.
Dr. Eggers died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, at University Hospital in Columbia. He was 82.
“This was his home,” said Scott McCord, who worked for Dr. Eggers as a medical student in 1962. “He’s one of the reasons I stayed around.”