BATON ROUGE, LA - Dr. C. E. Postell Spurlock died suddenly at his home in Baton Rouge early Sunday morning, August 17. He was 53 years old. Dr. Spurlock was preceded in death by his father, Dr. Daniel Webster Spurlock. He is survived by his daughter, Randi Caroline Spurlock, his son, James Postell Spurlock, his former wife, Gary McCullough, his mother, Carol Postell Spurlock of Shreveport, one brother, Dan Spurlock, of Baton Rouge, and three sisters, Caroline Ancelet and her husband Barry, Lafayette, Ann Logan Swearingen and her husband Tony, Asheville, NC, and Frances Huggins and her husband Steve, Baton Rouge. He is also survived by his Ohlmeyer cousins from Plaquemine, and numerous nieces and nephews. A memorial service is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 19, at the home of Steve and Frances Huggins.

Born in Shreveport on December 16, 1949, Dr. Spurlock was a 1967 graduate of Byrd High School. He graduated from LSU in Baton Rouge in 1971, and from LSU Medical Center in Shreveport in 1975. He completed his internship at Confederate Memorial Medical Center in Shreveport, and his anesthesiology residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Dr. Spurlock served as Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at LSUMC - Shreveport, and on the staffs of Doctor's Hospital, P & S Hospital, and Emergi-med Clinic, and later at Baton Rouge's Parkland Hospital, General Medical Center, CPC Meadow Wood Hospital, Our Lady of the Lake and the TAU Center, as well as on the emergency room staff of several hospitals in Louisiana and Texas. He held fellowships in Addictionology at Parkland Hospital, and in Clinical Anesthesiology, and Pain Management at LSU. He served as Medical Director of the Baton Rouge CDU and provided primary care and treatment in addictionology at the Capital Area Recovery Program and at the Med-Aid Clinic.

Dr. Spurlock served as Deputy Coroner of East Baton Rouge Parish and as Chief Deputy Coroner. He was a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators, and a member of the Child Death Review Panel.

Dr. Spurlock loved life dearly. He was utterly devoted to his family and friends, and maintained ongoing relationships with many of his former patients. He was also an intensely loyal LSU fan, and an avid collector of art, historical artifacts and natural phenomena. He will be remembered for his sweet disposition, his ever-present sense of humor, his overwhelming generosity, and his unfailing loyalty.