Round Rock pays tribute to first doctor

ROUND ROCK, Texas - (COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER) -- Dr. Robert Peters, a longtime Round Rock resident and physician, died Jan. 13, leaving behind a legacy and memory that will be treasured by his patients, community members and city leaders.

Peters, the city’s first practicing physician, treated generations of Round Rock children from 1972 to 2011 and served on the committee that helped bring the first hospital—St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center—to town.

“He was a heck of a guy. It’s hard to come up with a single word to describe him. If it’s the word, ‘icon,’ ‘legend,' words that you would use to describe him,” Round Rock Mayor Alan McGraw said.

Friend and businessman Jon Sloan described Peters as a doctor genuinely committed to his Round Rock patients.

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