Matthew Adam and Nancy Kinder Kazlauskas. On August 15, 1978, in San Jose, Calif., he was married to Judith Johnson, who survives of the home.
Colonel Kayson was a 1946 graduate of Amsterdam Public Schools. He earned a bachelors of science degree in 1950 from Union College in Schenectady, New York.
Dr. Kayson enlisted in the United States Army in 1951 and was commissioned at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1952. He served a sixteen month tour with the 44th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital as a medical service corps helicopter pilot from 1953-56. He was active in the Army reserves from 1956-63.
During his return to civilian life in 1956, he earned a masters degree from Cornell University in 1957 and a doctor of medicine degree from Albany Medical College in 1963. He served his internship at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas from 1963-64. He served his general practice residency at Santa Cruz County Hospital in California from 1964-65. He was the director of emergency departments at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose, California, and Los Gatos Community Hospital in Los Gatos, California, from 1969-79. He worked in industrial medicine at NASA’s Ames Research Laboratory in Sunnyvale, California, from 1979-80.
Colonel Kayson enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1980. He completed an aerospace medicine primary course and became a flight surgeon at McGuire Air Force Base from 1980-81. He was chief of flight medicine at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany from 1981-84. He was chief of aerospace medicine at Wiesbaden Regional Medical Center from 1984-87. He was chief of aerospace medicine and hospital commander at Whiteman Air Force Base. He retired in 1994. Dr. Kayson was certified with the National Board of Medical Examiners, California State Medical Board and Missouri State Medical Board.
Dr. Kayson was a member of Broadway Presbyterian Church and Sedalia Country Club. He enjoyed golf, tennis, skiing, raising Arabian horses, flying, reading and music. He lived by the philosophy of, “Do the best you can, with whatever you have, wherever you are.”
Survivors include his wife, Judith Kayson, of the home; six sons, Paul Kayson, of Chico, California, Adam Kayson, of San Diego, California, Matt Kayson, of Washington, D.C., Michael Kayson and Marc Kayson, both of Columbia, and Dane Kayson, of Virginia Beach, Virginia; four daughters, Jan Brase, of Reno, Nevada, Sarah Kayson, of San Francisco, California, Martha Weston, of Santa Barbara, California, and Stephanie Windsor, of Fair View Heights, Illinois; seven grandchildren; and an aunt, Lynn Kinder, of Amsterdam, New York.
He was preceded in death by two sisters, Gloria Fleck and Lucy Del Grosso.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004, at Broadway Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Dr. Larry Wheeler officiating. Whiteman Air Force Base Honor Guard will conduct military honors. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until service time Wednesday at the church.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the ALS Foundation or Bothwell Hospice in care of the funeral home.
Colonel Matthew Adam Kayson, M.D., 75, of Sedalia, died Friday, December 17, 2004, at his home.
He was born May 11, 1929, in Amsterdam, New York, son of
