Private family services for Dr. James Cotton Stinson, 84, of Temple are to be held at a later date.

Dr. Stinson died Thursday in a Temple hospital.

He was born to James Cotton and Annette Hardwicke Stinson in Sherman.

He married Katherine Grace Wilson of Blue Earth, Minn., in 1950.

He was a 1943 graduate of Texas A&M University and a 1945 graduate of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

After graduation he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy where he completed his internship and served as a medical officer aboard the USS Chikaskia. He completed his residency in pathology at the Mayo Clinic and joined the staff at Scott and White. He served as chairman of the pathology department from 1956 to 1982, and then became a senior consultant before retiring in 1987. He was a member of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Temple.

Survivors are his wife; three sons, Dr. James Clyde Stinson of Eddy, Dr. Charles Hardwicke Stinson of San Francisco, Robert Arthur Stinson of Belfalls; two daughters, Katherine Sanders of Kirkwood, Mo., and Julia Popelka of Temple; a sister, Martha Marie (Molly) Jameson of Dallas, and three grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Best, Sunbury and Stinson Resident Scholarship at the Office of Development, Scott and White, 2401 31st St., Temple 76508.

Scanio-Harper Funeral Home of Temple is in charge of arrangements.