Dr. C.C. Howard
2025-11-15 - 2300 block of Summer Shade Road, Summer Shade, KY - Photo courtesy Billy Joe Fudge
This newspaper clipping of Dr. Howard brought back memories of a harrowing trip across curvy country roads so that Dr. Howard could perform an emergency appendectomy on then 5-year-old Billy Joe Fudge.
Dr. Howard's birthplace in Summer Shade is home Kentucky Historical Marker 1503, noting his contributions to health care in the region:
2025-11-15 - 2300 block of Summer Shade Road, Summer Shade, KY - Photo courtesy Billy Joe Fudge
This newspaper clipping of Dr. Howard brought back memories of a harrowing trip across curvy country roads so that Dr. Howard could perform an emergency appendectomy on then 5-year-old Billy Joe Fudge.
Dr. Howard's birthplace in Summer Shade is home Kentucky Historical Marker 1503, noting his contributions to health care in the region:
Front description: Dr. C. C. Howard, an outstanding physician and citizen of Barren County, was born in Summer Shade, Kentucky, 1888. Began his medical career in Glasgow. He opened a private hospital there, 1914, and later helped build Glasgow's first community hospital. Dr. Howard encouraged passage of an act which created 6 regional tuberculosis hospitals in Kentucky.Click 'read more' for Billy Joe's recollection of that life-and-death run. He says, "Dr. Howard would and has always held a place of very high esteem and respect in our household and in fact all of The Great Wooded South." Comments | Permalink
Reverse Description: Local Humanitarian - Dr. Howard was instrumental in the establishment of Rural Kentucky Medical Scholarship Fund. Among the numerous awards he received were the Governor's Medallion for outstanding leadership in the field of rural medicine and the Kentucky Medical Association's first Distinguished Service Award. In 1947, he opened the Howard Clinic. Died, 1971. (history.ky.gov.