E. WILEY & GLORIA C. BILES

10/10/1923 - 02/24/2021 - 10/29/1926 - 02/21/2021

Reflective of their love for each other, on February 24, 2021, Dr. Ervin Wiley Biles went to his just reward following his wife Dr. Gloria C. Biles, who died February 1, 2021. A native of North Carolina, Wiley Biles was born October 10, 1923, to the union of the Reverend Thomas Hudson and Penelope Parker Biles. His parents and his only sibling, Dr. Paul Everette Biles, a clinical psychologist, preceded him in death. Wiley received his BS degree from Wake Forest University after which he entered the first class at Baylor Medical College that spent all four years in Houston after the school moved its location here. His internship and radiology residency were in New Orleans. He was in the U. S. Army of Occupation in Japan from 1947 to 1949 as the only radiologist for a 500-bed hospital in Osaka. In 1952, he began his radiology practice in Houston which continued until his retirement in 1991. He served at St. Luke’s and Texas Children’s Hospital from 1955 to 1966 with the remainder of his practice in the Memorial Hospital System. He was a member of the Texas Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Houston Radiological Society, the Texas Radiological Society, the Radiological Society of North America, and was a Fellow of the American College of Radiology.

Wiley and his wife Gloria, whom he married in 1949, were charter members of Tallowood Baptist Church where he served as deacon, usher, Sunday School worker and teacher, and a member of various committees. As an accomplished pianist and organist, he served as organist at various times at Tallowood, First Baptist, and Second Baptist churches, as well as a substitute organist for various other Houston churches. As a hobby, he enjoyed research into the origin of names for Houston streets. Dr. Biles is survived by a sister-in-law, Patricia Hatcher of Jacksonville,