Dr. Gerald Bartosh; Retired Physician

A funeral will be held today for Dr. Gerald Bartosh, who practiced proctology in Woodland Hills and was an emergency room physician at West Valley Hospital and Health Care Center in Canoga Park. He was 86.

A Chatsworth resident, Bartosh died Oct. 31 of cancer, said his wife, Ernestine Bartosh.

Born in Nebraska, Bartosh grew up in Kensal, N.D. He graduated from the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons in Los Angeles and practiced medicine in Los Angeles until the 1960s, when he moved his practice to Woodland Hills. In the late 1960s, he retired from private practice and was an emergency room physician through the late 1970s.

He later worked for the city of Los Angeles, performing physical examinations on municipal employees until his retirement in the mid-1980s.

Bartosh won several amateur championships as a tennis player. He was a longtime member of the Los Angeles Tennis Club and served as its president in 1946.

In addition to his wife of 50 years, Bartosh is survived by his son, Ben Bartosh of Fort Lee, N.J.; brother Richard Bartosh of Yucaipa, Calif., and sisters Violet Gunning of Pebble Beach, Calif., Anne Dahl of Encino and Ruth Vizinia of San Diego.

A funeral, with burial to follow, is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 1712 S. Glendale Ave., Glendale.

Forest Lawn Mortuary in Glendale is handling the arrangements.