Talmage W. Shill Md

WELLSVILLE, UTAH: Talmage Webb Shill (Tam) was born February 19, 1936 to Otto S. Shill, Sr. and Marguerite Webb Brown in Mesa, Arizona. He grew up on a dairy farm milking 60 cows and working his parents’ farm. He graduated from Mesa High School in 1953, did undergraduate school at Arizona State University, and medical school at University of Utah where he met and married Nancy Lynne Dyer, September 18, 1959 in the LDS Salt Lake Temple. He graduated in 1960 and took an internship at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, followed by training at the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks AFB. He was assigned as a Flight Surgeon at Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah from 1961 until 1964 when he moved to Tempe, Arizona and opened a private practice. In 1968, he was accepted into an Ear, Nose, and Throat residency at the Baylor College of Medicine. He deferred following a car accident and back surgeries, and in the fall of 1969 he took a Fellowship at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington DC in Ear, Nose, and Throat Pathology to allow his back time to heal.
July 1970 he moved to Houston, Texas to begin his ENT residency. After the first year of General Surgery, his back required another surgery, bone fusion, and ten-month recovery. Unable to ride in a car during these months, he walked to the Baylor Allergy Clinic where he pursued his interest in Allergy & Immunology Medicine. In 1972, he resumed his General Practice in Arizona which extended to include allergy care. In 1980, he moved his practice to Mesa to be closer to home and family. He retired (temporarily) from medicine in 1984 to fly airplanes and be with his family.
In 1991, Talmage and Nancy moved to Cache Valley, Utah to build a family “Gathering Place,” and Talmage opened an allergy clinic in Logan where he worked while planning and building their family homestead in Wellsville. In 1998, he retired again to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and Nancy served as Medical Care Specialists in the Pacific Island Area from May 1999 to November 2000.
In May of 2003, Talmage suffered a massive stroke that left him paralyzed on his right side and unable to communicate with words. With his speech impaired, he continued to communicate with hugs and laughter, smiles, expressions of love and confidence, and a sustained passion for gathering his family for reunions and parties. We heard him say many times, “I can’t say it, but you’re good and I love you.”
Nancy cared for him in their home these last 10 years and his grandchildren loved having “Papa Tam” close to them in his wheelchair where they could pat his knee and sit on his lap. He was happiest when his house was full of children. His last week was filled with family—all of his children and most of his grandchildren (minus five missionaries) who had gathered for Thanksgiving and Grammie’s magical Christmas party. He died peacefully December 4 after a sudden pneumonia. He is preceded in death by:
Parents: Otto and Marguerite Shill
Sisters: Elizabeth Shill, Beverly Shill, and Jean Shill Fuller, Maxine Shill Johnson
Granddaughter Elizabeth Clare Funk.
He is survived by his wife Nancy and their seven children: 
Elizabeth Shill Mella (Glen)
Marsali Shill Hancock 
Amy Shill Lofgreen (Kim)
Sally Shill Linford (David)
Emily Shill Funk (Chris)
Talmage LeGrand Shill (Danae)
Jonathan Lawrence Shill (Katrina)
44 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
A viewing will be Sunday December 8, 6-8 PM at the Allen Hall Mortuary: 34 E Center St, Logan, UT with funeral services on Monday, December 9 @ 12:00 noon in the Wellsville LDS Stake Center: 30 South Center St, Wellsville (viewing beginning @ 10:30 AM). Interment to follow at the Wellsville Cemetery.