Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameJean Mary Eugenia McCANNA 
1614, surname only,4828
1614, surname only,4828Birth19224828
Death20024828 Age: 80
BurialLos Altos, Santa Clara, California4828
FatherDr. Louis McCANNA
Spouses
Birth5 Jan 1919, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas1618,1609, date & state only,26, p 4
Death15 Jul 1988, Stanford, Santa Clara, California1538, p 3; year only,1609, date & county only,4827 Age: 69
MemoStanford University Hospital
EducationUS Naval Academy, 19414827
OccupationStanford University1618
ResidencePalo Alto, CA (1954)1618
Residenceof Atherton (1965)1614
FatherMarsden Scott BLOIS (1891-1964)
MotherMiriam ECKART (1895-1919)
Census Data
• 1920 Census: Marysville, Yuba, California. Age 11/12ths, b TX. Father b Canada; mother b CA. Living in household of grandfather, George R. Eckart.1518
• 1930 Census: Belmont, San Mateo, California. Age 11, b TX. Father b Canada English; mother b CA.1616
• 1940 Census: San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Age 21, b CA. C2. No employment given. Lived in same place in 1935.1617
• 1930 Census: Belmont, San Mateo, California. Age 11, b TX. Father b Canada English; mother b CA.1616
• 1940 Census: San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Age 21, b CA. C2. No employment given. Lived in same place in 1935.1617
Individual Notes
• Dr. Marsden Scott Blois Jr., an internationally recognized expert in the field of melanoma and skin cancer, lost a 15-year battle against cancer of the lymph system. He was 69.
Blois, who also founded the Melanoma Clinic at UC San Francisco, died Friday at Stanford Hospital after a brief hospitalization.
Blois, born in Texas but who was raised and spent most of his life on the Peninsula, was a 1941 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was assigned to the USS Henley, a destroyer that was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine on Oct 3, 1943.
A lieutenant at the time Blois and other survivors of the Henley’s crew were in the water seven hours before they were rescued by another ship.
He began his medical studies at Stanford University, where earned a Ph.D in physics, then a medical degree.
In 1957, her was identified as a pioneer in the new field of biophysics when he read his report on the connection between molecular fragments and skin cancer at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society.
Blois continued his work in skin cancer as a professor of dermatology at UC-San Francisco beginning in 1969 and he founded the Melanoma Clinic at the university in 1971.4827
Blois, who also founded the Melanoma Clinic at UC San Francisco, died Friday at Stanford Hospital after a brief hospitalization.
Blois, born in Texas but who was raised and spent most of his life on the Peninsula, was a 1941 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was assigned to the USS Henley, a destroyer that was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine on Oct 3, 1943.
A lieutenant at the time Blois and other survivors of the Henley’s crew were in the water seven hours before they were rescued by another ship.
He began his medical studies at Stanford University, where earned a Ph.D in physics, then a medical degree.
In 1957, her was identified as a pioneer in the new field of biophysics when he read his report on the connection between molecular fragments and skin cancer at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society.
Blois continued his work in skin cancer as a professor of dermatology at UC-San Francisco beginning in 1969 and he founded the Melanoma Clinic at the university in 1971.4827
Marriage19411538, p 3; marriage only,4828
DivorceMay 1973, San Mateo County, California4828
Children(Private, Male)
Byron Louise (1948-2003)
(Private, Male)
(Private, Male)
(Private, Female)