Dr. Thomas Riley Lumpkin of Tuscaloosa, Ala., a physician and educator, a community and church leader, and a loving family man, died Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. He was 87.
Lumpkin was a highly-respected family physician who began his medical career in 1959 in his hometown of Tuskegee, Ala., before moving his practice to Enterprise, Ala., in 1965.
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