Edward S. Sherwood, M.D.

Edward Sherwood was born in NYC to Ralph and Francis (Silliman) Sherwood, the middle child of three boys of which the eldest died before his birth. He watched the George Washington Bridge being built from his apartment window and at age 8, enjoyed the greater freedom he and his brother Walter had to play outside when the family moved to Mt. Vernon. He attended Colby College in Maine until he joined the Navy during WW II. Through the V-12 Navy College Training Program he went to Bates College and earned his medical degree at the University of Vermont. He told about patrolling for enemy submarines on the New England coast where grateful fisherman kept the sailors fed with lobster. He was serving as a medic in Portsmouth Navy Yard when the Axis surrendered. There he did health assessments on sailors from a German submarine, most who had TB. He also had to process a Japanese diplomat who had committed suicide on board.

At the University of Vermont, Ed met Lois Worthley. They married August 24, 1947. When he graduated from Medical School in 1949, they started their family while he did an internship at Maine General Hospital in Portland. He finished his Naval service during the Korean Conflict at the Quantico Base in Virginia and then took his growing family to RI where he completed a pediatric residency at Providence Lying-In Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital.

In 1955 Ed joined the New Brunswick Pediatric Group in New Jersey, from which he retired in 1985. During his career, he was known for his calming bed-side manner by parents and children alike, serving on the city’s Department of Public Health, and giving generously with pro-bono care.

Ed proudly supported his and Lois’s 7 children into higher education. He served as an elder at the New Brunswick Presbyterian Church. People relied on his reliable steadfastness and commitment.

Ed always had an eye for beautiful scenery and enjoyed their annual summer visits to Lois’s family in East Corinth, Vermont. It was there that they retired and for 3 decades Ed enjoyed its beauty, traveling, and to everyone’s surprise, learning to play the bagpipes. He served on the boards of the local medical center and library. Their home in Vermont was the central gathering place for the family until Lois’s death in 2019, when he moved to NJ to be near family.

Edward was predeceased by his wife Lois, his brother Walter, and his daughter Beth Rodgers. He is survived by 3 daughters, 3 sons, their spouses, and a son-in-law: Gail and Jim Seavey, John and Linda Sherwood, Ann and Barry Spaeth, Mark Sherwood and Lynn Lee, Jean and Peter Lynch, Bob Rodgers, Leigh Sherwood and Beth Gould; as well as 14 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.

You are invited to share memories and condolences to Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home (www.holcombefisher.com). Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Blake Memorial Library, 676 Village Road, P.O. Box D, East Corinth, VT 05040.

Private cremation was carried out under the direction of the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main Street, Flemington, NJ 08822.