Dr. Harvey Louis Long

Harvey Louis Long, MD died Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Services will be held at Cypress Baptist Church in Benton, Louisiana on Saturday, August 10 at 2:00 p.m. with visitation to follow.

Harvey was born in Dallas, Texas to Louis Graham and Sadie Walthers Long on September 11, 1942. After his father returned home from WWII, the family moved to Shreveport where he attended elementary school, and later to Longview, Texas where he finished high school in 1960. He graduated from Centenary College in 1964 and received his MD degree in 1968 from Tulane Medical School in New Orleans. After his internship at Confederate Memorial Medical Center in Shreveport, he joined the USAF as a flight surgeon for three years. After he completed his OB/GYN residency at Confederate Memorial, he practiced in the Shreveport/Bossier area until his retirement in 2005. He worked at Willis-Knighton Cardiac Rehab centers part-time during his retirement.

He always talked about life with his friends in Longview during the 1950s, and he cherished the visits to his aunt and uncle’s cotton farm near Ennis, Texas during the summer and dove hunting season. He felt honored to serve in the USAF from 1969-1972.

Tending to his patients and spending time listening to them was his number one priority. Most of his good friends were nurses and their husbands along with surgical technicians, and aides. He held a private pilot license, performed as an Aeromedical Examiner for the FAA for 25 years, and was a life member of the Air Force Association.

He was especially close to Mike and Anne Guilbeaux of Abbeville, Louisiana, along with their family. Many wonderful Thanksgiving and tailgate parties were spent with them. He often said that Cajun families and friends could teach the rest of us how to live and love each other.

His life could not have been any fuller. He delivered a lot of beautiful children, saved a few lives, got to fly in the fastest aircraft, and was a teenager in the Fabulous Fifties with many friends and fond memories in Longview, Texas, but most of all he was loved by and married the most beautiful, loving and caring girl in the world. Not only was she his lover and soul mate, but also his best friend. It was impossible to imagine a life in this world without her, and he thanked God for her every day.

He loved all of his dogs and worried about them when he wasn’t with them. It broke his heart when each one died.

He is survived by his wife, Kim Peters Long; son, Stephen Howard Long with his wife, Tina of Little Rock, Arkansas; son, Christopher Scott Bourgeois with his wife, Mikael Ann, and their daughter, Rubie of Houston, Texas. Also, his daughter, Lindsey Kelly Free, her husband, Jeffrey Free, and his “favorite” grandson, Jonathan Free. Additionally, he is survived by the sweetest sister ever, Merilyn Leigh Nutt, and her husband, Johnny of Longview, Texas, along with their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He had many cousins and their offspring around the Dallas-Ft. Worth area and Oklahoma City.

Honorary pallbearers will be Bill Blackman, John Brewer, Mike Guilbeaux, Tim Hart, Jim Mitchell, and Massimo Ongara.

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