Jimmy Levan Breazeale
Dr. Jimmy Levan Breazeale, 78, died June 29, 2012, in Austin surrounded by family. He was born in Divot on March 21, 1934, to Morris Hamon and Lois Agatha (Fluitt) Breazeale.
He grew up in south Central Texas and attended Poteet High School, the University of Texas at Austin and Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He completed his medical residency training at Ottawa Civic Hospital in Canada, where he met and married his wife of 52 years, Barbara Jean Thompson.
He served as a major in the Air Force and continued his service in the Air Force Reserves as a flight surgeon.
After moving to Austin in the early 1960s, he worked as a physician at the University of Texas Student Health Center and later for the Social Security Rehabilitation Commission, until he retired in April 2011.
He will be remembered in many ways but most of all for his love and devotion to his family, his exceptional work ethic, his love of practicing medicine and assisting his patients and his readily available sense of humor and big belly laugh. He enjoyed being a “gentleman farmer,” fixing his tractor which seldom ever properly worked, manicuring and watering his fruit orchard and puttering around his farm. He enjoyed attending farm auctions and estate sales, watching the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Longhorns play football and pouring over the sports section of the Austin American-Statesman. He loved watching sporting events of any kind, especially those involving his grandchildren.
He had a passionate interest in Native American artifacts and enjoyed researching early American history. Last summer, he journeyed to Scotland to attend his youngest daughter’s graduation from veterinary school and traveled with his wife and daughter across Scotland and Ireland. He especially enjoyed visiting Skara Brae, ruins older than the pyramids in Egypt.
The couple lived in Japan during the early 1960s while he was stationed at Tatchikawa Air Force Base near Tokyo and have enjoyed traveling extensively around the world. All four of their children still live in Austin, and as youngsters swam for the Austin Aquatic Club and Longhorn Aquatics, which he and his wife both supported and volunteered with.
He lived a richly blessed life. He was a 30-year cancer survivor.
The family thanks all his doctors, nurses and caregivers for their support of him and the family during the past 14 months as he battled cancer once again.
In addition to his wife, survivors include daughters Allison Cline and husband David, Lorie Raney and husband Philip and Kelly Breazeale; son Nathan Breazeale and wife Shanda; and grandchildren Elizabeth, Tyler, Reid, Wheeler, Westin, Cassidy, Carter and Campbell.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers Milton and Lynn Adrian.
A service is 11 a.m. July 3 at Clements-Wilcox Funeral Home, 306 Texas 29 East in Burnet, (512) 756-2222. Interment will follow at Hoover’s Valley Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice Austin.
Condolences may be made at www.clementswilcoxburnet.com.