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From MCKEES ROCKS GENEALOGY AND HISTORY: Dr. Herbert Silvette, 94, of "Low Gear," Stanardsville, Virginia, died February 14, 2002, in a local nursing home. He was born in McKee's Rock, Pa., on December 23, 1907, the son of the late Ellis M. and Ella COHAN Silvette. Dr. Silvette attended New York University, the University of Richmond and the University of Virginia and received the degrees of BS and MS in 1932, as well as a Ph.D. in Physiology in 1934. In 1931, he was a Porter Fellow of APS, and he held an E.R. Squibb & Sons Fellowship in Physiology in 1936; he was an AMA Fellow in 1945 and in 1946 was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. Throughout his long career, he was associated with the University of Virginia Medical College, Meharry Medical College, the University of Washington and the Medical College of Virginia, teaching both physiology and pharmacology. He resigned in January 1947 due to poor health. Dr. Silvette published over 120 papers and books on subjects in the medical field as well as novels and volumes of lyric poetry including Great Man's Ape, The Doctor on the Stage, The Goose's Tale, Eve's Second Apple, Maiden Voyage, Grave Example, The Medlars, My Orange Has Bitter Rind, Never Say Die, Come Unto Me, Tobacco (with P.S. Larson and H.B. Haag: supplemented with P.S. Larson in 1968, 1971 and 1975), Cultural Pharmacology (1974). He catalogued the works of Philemon Holland in 1940 and continued his work on Holland through 1946. Services will be private. Friends and colleagues who wish to honor Dr. Silvette are asked to donate to the charity of their choice.