David Jay Confer, MD
Member Since September 8, 1980 ~ 44 Years
The life of David Jay Confer will be celebrated at St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 2pm. David Jay Confer was born on June 21, 1944, in Colorado Springs to Jay and Ruth Confer, and grew up in Oklahoma City, where he played every kind of sport alongside his brother Paul and their neighborhood friends. David graduated from Northwest Classen High School in 1962 and attended the University of Oklahoma. During a shift while working at a sorority house, David playfully grabbed the intercom and asked, "Does anyone want to go dance?". Maggie Wilson flew down the stairs, accepted his invitation, and they danced their way through 60 years of family, friends, and life. Always an industrious student, David graduated from OU with a pharmacy degree in 1967, earned an MD from the OU School of Medicine in 1971, and completed his urology residency at UCLA in 1977. He served his country as an Air Force Flight Surgeon for four years, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before settling in Tulsa to begin his private practice in 1980. For the next three and a half decades, David practiced urology and impacted thousands of lives for the better. Many local organizations benefited from his expertise. He served as president of the Tulsa County Medical Society, as a trustee of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, and as an associate urology professor at the OU College of Medicine-Tulsa, where he won numerous teaching awards.
Robert Alan Houston, M.D.
Member Since July 21, 1971 ~ 53 Years
Dr. Robert Alan Houston of Tulsa died on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, from the effects of a stroke. He was 85 years old. Bob was born on June 29, 1938, at St. John's Hospital in Tulsa, the second child of Joe B. and Helen Houston. He would attend Lee Elementary and Horace Mann Junior High, graduating from Tulsa Central in 1956. He was in the first class of National Merit Scholars and went on to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and a pre-medical student. He completed his MD degree at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. While at Tulane, he was paired at a bridge game with Ann Louis DeRouen from Ville Platte, Louisiana, who was a graduate student in audiology and speech pathology at Tulane. They quickly fell in love and planned for their lives together. They were married on August 31,1963, in the Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel, on Prytania Street in New Orleans.
Upon completion of medical school, Bob began his service as a Flight Surgeon in the United States Air Force. Both their sons were born on Air Force bases: Ben in 1965, at Keesler in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Dan in 1966, at Tyndall in Panama City, Florida. In April 1968, Bob was deployed to the air base at Tuy Hoa on the central Vietnam coast, where he treated both American and South Vietnamese patients in the base hospital and engaged in rescues of downed American pilots.
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