Funeral services for Dr. Jerry Campbell Gullion M.D., 80, of Marshall, TX, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, January 17, 2015 in the Chapel of Downs Funeral Home with Bob Bryant officiating. Interment will follow at Colonial Gardens Cemetery. A time of visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m., Friday, January 16, 2015 at Downs Funeral Home. Doctor Jerry Campbell Gullion's body has taken its final breath, as impossible as that is to accept. He was a giant of a man, and yet completely down to Earth. The fruit of the robust stock tilling the mountain of Slieve Gullion in Ireland minglingwith the sly brilliance of the people on the slopes of Mount Lebanon in the Holy Land, he embodied the strengths of two very different yet complimentary cultures. Born in Texarkana, Arkansas in 1934, raised under the tutelage of his Lebanese immigrant grandfather Moses in Atlanta, Texas. He sparkled with brilliance from the start. He started with flooding the streets by constructing dams in the gutters, kindly teaching his friends and sister Vicki to swim by chucking them in the deep end of the pool and fishing in every creek and pond within bicycle distance. His loving mother Mimi taught him the card and game playing skills so important through his life, as his father Pappy taught him science by designing and building many of the State Highways that grace East Texas. Soon he has preaching in both the Baptist and Methodist churches as a teenager, going on to be Atlanta High's valedictorian as well as being the school band director his senior year. He entered Rice University in Houston, where he met his future wife, the equally brilliant and epically alluring Sallie Rogers. He drew her first attention, and transient disapproval, by passing notes in German class. Soon they were dancing, sometimes the only whites in attendance, he was only interested in excellence, not color. Leading his band the Rice Rhythm Aires, wailing on the saxophone, he further lured Sallie by having her play percussion on his only record. Her fate was sealed, they were married - and when they were both asked to enter medical school - Sallie first by the way, she chose to support her husband first through medical school, then three children, service in the Vietnam War and setting up his medical office in Marshall. She was the wife and the foundation, thus allowing him to focus on being the best Doctor anyone had usually ever met. In 1968 they moved to Marshall and began his practice, Jerry as the Doctor with Sallie as the Clinic Manager. They brought a new level of training to Marshall. Over time they attracted three new brilliant colleagues, Drs. Roger Jones, Jim Harris and Valerie Allman to the practice of Marshall Internal Medical Associates. They practiced in the Greg Campbell Gullion Memorial Clinic, named after their five year old son who passed away soon after they moved to Marshall. Dr. Gullion practiced for 42 years until 2010, one of the last of the old time town doctors, who everyone knew. The countless lives saved and touched the endless jokes, they could fill volumes - the sheer daily effort and attention to every detail, they exceeded description. In his home life; he fished the heck out of Caddo and Shadowood Lakes, while teaching his offspring and grandchildren history, words, music, driving, Bridge and the meaning of being relentlessly and fiercely loved. He was utterly devoted to his wife. He is survived by; his wife Sallie, his sister Vicki and her life partner Joy, his daughter Laura Carpenter, her husband Jim and their children Caleb, Claire and Cullen- all of East Texas, and his son Guy Gullion, MD, who lives in Occidental, California with his wife Cori.