Dr. Shannon Gwin biography: 13 things about Corpus Christi, Texas psychiatrist

Who was Dr. Shannon Gwin?

Dr. Horace Shannon Barron Gwin was a psychiatrist from Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. He was born in Eunice, Louisiana, USA to Horace Foreman Gwin and Velma Hannah “Queenie” Barron.

Shannon and his wife Lucille “Luci” Pieper Gwin lived in Galveston, Texas. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He served in the U.S. Navy as a line officer and a commander of sub-chasers.
2. In 1940, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&I University in Kingsville, Texas, which was renamed Texas A&M University–Kingsville in 1993.
3. In 1950, he and Luci got married.
4. In 1951, Luci gave birth to their son Shannon Collier Gwin and he graduated at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas with a doctor of medicine degree. 
5. From 1951 to 1952, he served his internship in the Wichita Falls Clinic Hospital in Wichita Falls, Texas.
6. In 1952, Luci gave birth to their daughter Hannah Gwin.
7. From 1952 to 1955, he completed his residency in neuropsychiatry at UTMB where he worked with Dr. Irvin Cohen in early work on chloropromazine. 
8. In 1954, he and his family moved from Galveston to Corpus Christi and Luci gave birth to their son Marshall Allen Gwin in Corpus Christi.
9. In 1956, Luci gave birth to their son David Kelly Gwin in Corpus Christi.
10. In 1977, he was awarded a Distinguished Service Award by the Texas district branch of the American Psychiatric Association. 
11. On October 26, 2000, his son Marshall died after a long battle with liver disease. Marshall was 46.
12. On June 3, 2006, he turned 87.
13. On February 23, 2007, he died in Corpus Christi.

Shannon’s son Collier owns the Foster-Gwin gallery in San Francisco. On January 9, 2023, Collier was caught on camera spraying an unhoused woman with a hose near the gallery.

On January 18, 2023, Collier was arrested for misdemeanor battery. On July 10, 2023, a San Francisco judge approved a pretrial diversion agreement for him, which stated the charges filed against him would be dismissed after he volunteered 35 hours at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco with civil rights champion Rev. Amos C. Brow.