Born in 1914 in Perryville, N.Y., Dr. Deuel, along with his two sisters, Catherine and Constance, was raised in Penfield, N.Y., from 1924 by his parents, Dr Jacob B. Deuel – a Rochester Radiologist – and Mrs. Norma Shaut Deuel.
Educated at Penfield Schools, Peddie Preparatory School in New Jersey and St. Lawrence University, Dr. Deuel took his medical degree from New York Medical College in New York City in 1938. There he met and married Ms. Lillian Ellstrom, a nurse from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Interning at Genesee Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., Dr. Deuel was given a first child, Peter, by Mrs. Deuel on February 24, 1940. While later employed as plant physician at Harrison Radiator in Lockport, N.Y., Bob and Lillian had two more children, Geoffrey (1943) and Pamela (1944).
Acting on a plan he had formed in medical school, Dr Deuel returned to his home town, establishing a family medical practice in 1944, when there was no other physician in Penfield.
After a short time on Five Mile Line Road, Dr. Deuel moved the practice and his family to 1790 Penfield Road, next to Daniel Penfield's house. The practice was in the west wing of the house and the family referred to it as "The Office." Dad and Mom (yes, she was his nurse into the 50's) had afternoon office hours three times a week and evening hours twice weekly. Dr. Deuel also made house calls - remember them?, which he usually made in the mornings and early evenings.
Dad often took us on house calls with him. I remember one time when he was called to a car accident up Penfield Road toward Brighton. When we arrived, there was no ambulance and the car was tipped upside down . Dad carefully crawled into the vehicle and extricated the injured driver. Fortunately he wasn't badly hurt. I recall how scared I was and how calm Dad was. My hero once again!
Dad also had to attend to us kids on occasion. Peter used to climb the towering plane tree in the back yard, but he would often freeze toward the top, unable to get back down. I would run into the office, get Dad, and he would come out, climb the tree, calm Peter and bring him down to safety.
As a general practitioner Dad was always on call, even with his own kids.
Dr. Deuel was the town's sole physician until the mid-fifties when Dr. Kenneth Thompson set-up his practice on Five Mile Line Road.
After 23 years, Dr Deuel closed his practice in 1967 and became a physician at Eastman Kodak. A gifted diagnostician, Dr. Deuel will be remembered for the extraordinary care he gave to his patients, as well as his no-nonsense yet compassionate manner.
While in practice from the mid-forties, Bob and Lillian were active members of the Penfield Baptist Church. Dr. Deuel was Penfield's Health Officer, the School Physician, physician at the Fairport Baptist Home, a Charter Member of the Penfield Rotary Club, the Penfield Fire Department, and both he and Lillian were generally very active in the community.
Son Peter died tragically at the end of 1971, and Dr. and Mrs. Deuel retired in early 1973, traveling by car and trailer to California to be closer to their remaining children, Geoffrey and Pamela, and grandchild Jennifer.
Basing in California and Arizona, Bob and Lillian would travel east in summer/fall visiting friends and relatives and spending much of the summer at their favorite place, their cottage in Ontario, Canada built in 1947/1948.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel moved to Prescott, Arizona in the early 1980's. Unfortunately Lillian had a recurrence of a cancer and Dr. Deuel lost his beloved wife of 48 years in March of 1986.
Bob moved to Indio, California in 1988, where he played a lot of golf and made new friends. For more than a decade, Bob continued his peripatetic ways, summering at the cottage and visiting with Pam and Geoff/Jacqueline and other relatives and friends in Penfield and other locations.
In 2003, Dr Deuel began exhibiting signs of dementia. After living with relatives in Colorado and with Pam and Geoff, it was ultimately decided to place Bob in an assisted living facility. In 2007, Dr. Deuel became a resident of Bon Secours Assisted Living facility in St. Petersburg, Fl., only 5 miles from Geoff and Jacqueline.
Spending holidays and going on outings with Geoff and Jacqueline as well as visiting with Pam when she came down from Philadelphia really lifted Dr. Deuel. Bob also savored his nightly phone calls from Geoff, sharing anything that was bothering him and simply being affectionate. Keeping connected was so important to both of them.
Moving to the nursing home wing in the summer of 2012, Dr. Deuel was quite content until November of 2013, when he began having difficulty with a chronic bronchial cough.
Despite aggressive treatment for his illness, Dr. Deuel never really recovered.
He remained lucid, however, telling his son on December 9. "Say goodbye, Geoff." He also said on more than one occasion, "I'm just so tired."
Dr. Deuel quietly passed away, at 10:00pm, December 11, 2013. He was 99 years old.
Dr. Deuel is survived by his son Geoffrey and daughter-in-law, Jacqueline, of St Petersburg, Florida; his daughter, Pamela, of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and his granddaughter, Jennifer Seymour, of Wisconsin.
Also, his brother-in-law, Theodore "Ted" J. Ellstrom, and wife, Dawn , of Webster, New York; and sister-in-law, Naomi J. Ellstrom Rupe of Altoona, Pennsylvania; as well as many cousins, a myriad of nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews and second cousins on both sides.
Thank you so much Dad.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel married on November 24th,1938.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel also had a daughter, Jennifer Deuel born September 12,1952 at 4 p.m. and she passed away the next morning, September 13, 1952 at 8 a.m.
A memorial service for Dr. Ellsworth S. Deuel, who passed away on Dec. 11, 2013, will be held on Saturday, April 26, at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church, 1862 Penfield Road, Penfield.
Noted Penfield Physician
Saturday, April 26th, 2014 at 10 AM
First Baptist Church of Penfield
1862 Penfield Road, Penfield, NY 14526
Services and Refreshments
In lieu of flowers, consider memorials to the Lollipop animal rescue or the Baptist Church
Published in MPNnow on Apr. 17, 2014.
Educated at Penfield Schools, Peddie Preparatory School in New Jersey and St. Lawrence University, Dr. Deuel took his medical degree from New York Medical College in New York City in 1938. There he met and married Ms. Lillian Ellstrom, a nurse from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Interning at Genesee Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., Dr. Deuel was given a first child, Peter, by Mrs. Deuel on February 24, 1940. While later employed as plant physician at Harrison Radiator in Lockport, N.Y., Bob and Lillian had two more children, Geoffrey (1943) and Pamela (1944).
Acting on a plan he had formed in medical school, Dr Deuel returned to his home town, establishing a family medical practice in 1944, when there was no other physician in Penfield.
After a short time on Five Mile Line Road, Dr. Deuel moved the practice and his family to 1790 Penfield Road, next to Daniel Penfield's house. The practice was in the west wing of the house and the family referred to it as "The Office." Dad and Mom (yes, she was his nurse into the 50's) had afternoon office hours three times a week and evening hours twice weekly. Dr. Deuel also made house calls - remember them?, which he usually made in the mornings and early evenings.
Dad often took us on house calls with him. I remember one time when he was called to a car accident up Penfield Road toward Brighton. When we arrived, there was no ambulance and the car was tipped upside down . Dad carefully crawled into the vehicle and extricated the injured driver. Fortunately he wasn't badly hurt. I recall how scared I was and how calm Dad was. My hero once again!
Dad also had to attend to us kids on occasion. Peter used to climb the towering plane tree in the back yard, but he would often freeze toward the top, unable to get back down. I would run into the office, get Dad, and he would come out, climb the tree, calm Peter and bring him down to safety.
As a general practitioner Dad was always on call, even with his own kids.
Dr. Deuel was the town's sole physician until the mid-fifties when Dr. Kenneth Thompson set-up his practice on Five Mile Line Road.
After 23 years, Dr Deuel closed his practice in 1967 and became a physician at Eastman Kodak. A gifted diagnostician, Dr. Deuel will be remembered for the extraordinary care he gave to his patients, as well as his no-nonsense yet compassionate manner.
While in practice from the mid-forties, Bob and Lillian were active members of the Penfield Baptist Church. Dr. Deuel was Penfield's Health Officer, the School Physician, physician at the Fairport Baptist Home, a Charter Member of the Penfield Rotary Club, the Penfield Fire Department, and both he and Lillian were generally very active in the community.
Son Peter died tragically at the end of 1971, and Dr. and Mrs. Deuel retired in early 1973, traveling by car and trailer to California to be closer to their remaining children, Geoffrey and Pamela, and grandchild Jennifer.
Basing in California and Arizona, Bob and Lillian would travel east in summer/fall visiting friends and relatives and spending much of the summer at their favorite place, their cottage in Ontario, Canada built in 1947/1948.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel moved to Prescott, Arizona in the early 1980's. Unfortunately Lillian had a recurrence of a cancer and Dr. Deuel lost his beloved wife of 48 years in March of 1986.
Bob moved to Indio, California in 1988, where he played a lot of golf and made new friends. For more than a decade, Bob continued his peripatetic ways, summering at the cottage and visiting with Pam and Geoff/Jacqueline and other relatives and friends in Penfield and other locations.
In 2003, Dr Deuel began exhibiting signs of dementia. After living with relatives in Colorado and with Pam and Geoff, it was ultimately decided to place Bob in an assisted living facility. In 2007, Dr. Deuel became a resident of Bon Secours Assisted Living facility in St. Petersburg, Fl., only 5 miles from Geoff and Jacqueline.
Spending holidays and going on outings with Geoff and Jacqueline as well as visiting with Pam when she came down from Philadelphia really lifted Dr. Deuel. Bob also savored his nightly phone calls from Geoff, sharing anything that was bothering him and simply being affectionate. Keeping connected was so important to both of them.
Moving to the nursing home wing in the summer of 2012, Dr. Deuel was quite content until November of 2013, when he began having difficulty with a chronic bronchial cough.
Despite aggressive treatment for his illness, Dr. Deuel never really recovered.
He remained lucid, however, telling his son on December 9. "Say goodbye, Geoff." He also said on more than one occasion, "I'm just so tired."
Dr. Deuel quietly passed away, at 10:00pm, December 11, 2013. He was 99 years old.
Dr. Deuel is survived by his son Geoffrey and daughter-in-law, Jacqueline, of St Petersburg, Florida; his daughter, Pamela, of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and his granddaughter, Jennifer Seymour, of Wisconsin.
Also, his brother-in-law, Theodore "Ted" J. Ellstrom, and wife, Dawn , of Webster, New York; and sister-in-law, Naomi J. Ellstrom Rupe of Altoona, Pennsylvania; as well as many cousins, a myriad of nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews and second cousins on both sides.
Thank you so much Dad.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel married on November 24th,1938.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel also had a daughter, Jennifer Deuel born September 12,1952 at 4 p.m. and she passed away the next morning, September 13, 1952 at 8 a.m.
A memorial service for Dr. Ellsworth S. Deuel, who passed away on Dec. 11, 2013, will be held on Saturday, April 26, at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church, 1862 Penfield Road, Penfield.
Noted Penfield Physician
Saturday, April 26th, 2014 at 10 AM
First Baptist Church of Penfield
1862 Penfield Road, Penfield, NY 14526
Services and Refreshments
In lieu of flowers, consider memorials to the Lollipop animal rescue or the Baptist Church
Published in MPNnow on Apr. 17, 2014.
Born in 1914 in Perryville, N.Y., Dr. Deuel, along with his two sisters, Catherine and Constance, was raised in Penfield, N.Y., from 1924 by his parents, Dr Jacob B. Deuel – a Rochester Radiologist – and Mrs. Norma Shaut Deuel.
Educated at Penfield Schools, Peddie Preparatory School in New Jersey and St. Lawrence University, Dr. Deuel took his medical degree from New York Medical College in New York City in 1938. There he met and married Ms. Lillian Ellstrom, a nurse from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Interning at Genesee Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., Dr. Deuel was given a first child, Peter, by Mrs. Deuel on February 24, 1940. While later employed as plant physician at Harrison Radiator in Lockport, N.Y., Bob and Lillian had two more children, Geoffrey (1943) and Pamela (1944).
Acting on a plan he had formed in medical school, Dr Deuel returned to his home town, establishing a family medical practice in 1944, when there was no other physician in Penfield.
After a short time on Five Mile Line Road, Dr. Deuel moved the practice and his family to 1790 Penfield Road, next to Daniel Penfield's house. The practice was in the west wing of the house and the family referred to it as "The Office." Dad and Mom (yes, she was his nurse into the 50's) had afternoon office hours three times a week and evening hours twice weekly. Dr. Deuel also made house calls - remember them?, which he usually made in the mornings and early evenings.
Dad often took us on house calls with him. I remember one time when he was called to a car accident up Penfield Road toward Brighton. When we arrived, there was no ambulance and the car was tipped upside down . Dad carefully crawled into the vehicle and extricated the injured driver. Fortunately he wasn't badly hurt. I recall how scared I was and how calm Dad was. My hero once again!
Dad also had to attend to us kids on occasion. Peter used to climb the towering plane tree in the back yard, but he would often freeze toward the top, unable to get back down. I would run into the office, get Dad, and he would come out, climb the tree, calm Peter and bring him down to safety.
As a general practitioner Dad was always on call, even with his own kids.
Dr. Deuel was the town's sole physician until the mid-fifties when Dr. Kenneth Thompson set-up his practice on Five Mile Line Road.
After 23 years, Dr Deuel closed his practice in 1967 and became a physician at Eastman Kodak. A gifted diagnostician, Dr. Deuel will be remembered for the extraordinary care he gave to his patients, as well as his no-nonsense yet compassionate manner.
While in practice from the mid-forties, Bob and Lillian were active members of the Penfield Baptist Church. Dr. Deuel was Penfield's Health Officer, the School Physician, physician at the Fairport Baptist Home, a Charter Member of the Penfield Rotary Club, the Penfield Fire Department, and both he and Lillian were generally very active in the community.
Son Peter died tragically at the end of 1971, and Dr. and Mrs. Deuel retired in early 1973, traveling by car and trailer to California to be closer to their remaining children, Geoffrey and Pamela, and grandchild Jennifer.
Basing in California and Arizona, Bob and Lillian would travel east in summer/fall visiting friends and relatives and spending much of the summer at their favorite place, their cottage in Ontario, Canada built in 1947/1948.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel moved to Prescott, Arizona in the early 1980's. Unfortunately Lillian had a recurrence of a cancer and Dr. Deuel lost his beloved wife of 48 years in March of 1986.
Bob moved to Indio, California in 1988, where he played a lot of golf and made new friends. For more than a decade, Bob continued his peripatetic ways, summering at the cottage and visiting with Pam and Geoff/Jacqueline and other relatives and friends in Penfield and other locations.
In 2003, Dr Deuel began exhibiting signs of dementia. After living with relatives in Colorado and with Pam and Geoff, it was ultimately decided to place Bob in an assisted living facility. In 2007, Dr. Deuel became a resident of Bon Secours Assisted Living facility in St. Petersburg, Fl., only 5 miles from Geoff and Jacqueline.
Spending holidays and going on outings with Geoff and Jacqueline as well as visiting with Pam when she came down from Philadelphia really lifted Dr. Deuel. Bob also savored his nightly phone calls from Geoff, sharing anything that was bothering him and simply being affectionate. Keeping connected was so important to both of them.
Moving to the nursing home wing in the summer of 2012, Dr. Deuel was quite content until November of 2013, when he began having difficulty with a chronic bronchial cough.
Despite aggressive treatment for his illness, Dr. Deuel never really recovered.
He remained lucid, however, telling his son on December 9. "Say goodbye, Geoff." He also said on more than one occasion, "I'm just so tired."
Dr. Deuel quietly passed away, at 10:00pm, December 11, 2013. He was 99 years old.
Dr. Deuel is survived by his son Geoffrey and daughter-in-law, Jacqueline, of St Petersburg, Florida; his daughter, Pamela, of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and his granddaughter, Jennifer Seymour, of Wisconsin.
Also, his brother-in-law, Theodore "Ted" J. Ellstrom, and wife, Dawn , of Webster, New York; and sister-in-law, Naomi J. Ellstrom Rupe of Altoona, Pennsylvania; as well as many cousins, a myriad of nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews and second cousins on both sides.
Thank you so much Dad.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel married on November 24th,1938.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel also had a daughter, Jennifer Deuel born September 12,1952 at 4 p.m. and she passed away the next morning, September 13, 1952 at 8 a.m.
A memorial service for Dr. Ellsworth S. Deuel, who passed away on Dec. 11, 2013, will be held on Saturday, April 26, at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church, 1862 Penfield Road, Penfield.
Noted Penfield Physician
Saturday, April 26th, 2014 at 10 AM
First Baptist Church of Penfield
1862 Penfield Road, Penfield, NY 14526
Services and Refreshments
In lieu of flowers, consider memorials to the Lollipop animal rescue or the Baptist Church
Published in MPNnow on Apr. 17, 2014.
Educated at Penfield Schools, Peddie Preparatory School in New Jersey and St. Lawrence University, Dr. Deuel took his medical degree from New York Medical College in New York City in 1938. There he met and married Ms. Lillian Ellstrom, a nurse from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Interning at Genesee Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., Dr. Deuel was given a first child, Peter, by Mrs. Deuel on February 24, 1940. While later employed as plant physician at Harrison Radiator in Lockport, N.Y., Bob and Lillian had two more children, Geoffrey (1943) and Pamela (1944).
Acting on a plan he had formed in medical school, Dr Deuel returned to his home town, establishing a family medical practice in 1944, when there was no other physician in Penfield.
After a short time on Five Mile Line Road, Dr. Deuel moved the practice and his family to 1790 Penfield Road, next to Daniel Penfield's house. The practice was in the west wing of the house and the family referred to it as "The Office." Dad and Mom (yes, she was his nurse into the 50's) had afternoon office hours three times a week and evening hours twice weekly. Dr. Deuel also made house calls - remember them?, which he usually made in the mornings and early evenings.
Dad often took us on house calls with him. I remember one time when he was called to a car accident up Penfield Road toward Brighton. When we arrived, there was no ambulance and the car was tipped upside down . Dad carefully crawled into the vehicle and extricated the injured driver. Fortunately he wasn't badly hurt. I recall how scared I was and how calm Dad was. My hero once again!
Dad also had to attend to us kids on occasion. Peter used to climb the towering plane tree in the back yard, but he would often freeze toward the top, unable to get back down. I would run into the office, get Dad, and he would come out, climb the tree, calm Peter and bring him down to safety.
As a general practitioner Dad was always on call, even with his own kids.
Dr. Deuel was the town's sole physician until the mid-fifties when Dr. Kenneth Thompson set-up his practice on Five Mile Line Road.
After 23 years, Dr Deuel closed his practice in 1967 and became a physician at Eastman Kodak. A gifted diagnostician, Dr. Deuel will be remembered for the extraordinary care he gave to his patients, as well as his no-nonsense yet compassionate manner.
While in practice from the mid-forties, Bob and Lillian were active members of the Penfield Baptist Church. Dr. Deuel was Penfield's Health Officer, the School Physician, physician at the Fairport Baptist Home, a Charter Member of the Penfield Rotary Club, the Penfield Fire Department, and both he and Lillian were generally very active in the community.
Son Peter died tragically at the end of 1971, and Dr. and Mrs. Deuel retired in early 1973, traveling by car and trailer to California to be closer to their remaining children, Geoffrey and Pamela, and grandchild Jennifer.
Basing in California and Arizona, Bob and Lillian would travel east in summer/fall visiting friends and relatives and spending much of the summer at their favorite place, their cottage in Ontario, Canada built in 1947/1948.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel moved to Prescott, Arizona in the early 1980's. Unfortunately Lillian had a recurrence of a cancer and Dr. Deuel lost his beloved wife of 48 years in March of 1986.
Bob moved to Indio, California in 1988, where he played a lot of golf and made new friends. For more than a decade, Bob continued his peripatetic ways, summering at the cottage and visiting with Pam and Geoff/Jacqueline and other relatives and friends in Penfield and other locations.
In 2003, Dr Deuel began exhibiting signs of dementia. After living with relatives in Colorado and with Pam and Geoff, it was ultimately decided to place Bob in an assisted living facility. In 2007, Dr. Deuel became a resident of Bon Secours Assisted Living facility in St. Petersburg, Fl., only 5 miles from Geoff and Jacqueline.
Spending holidays and going on outings with Geoff and Jacqueline as well as visiting with Pam when she came down from Philadelphia really lifted Dr. Deuel. Bob also savored his nightly phone calls from Geoff, sharing anything that was bothering him and simply being affectionate. Keeping connected was so important to both of them.
Moving to the nursing home wing in the summer of 2012, Dr. Deuel was quite content until November of 2013, when he began having difficulty with a chronic bronchial cough.
Despite aggressive treatment for his illness, Dr. Deuel never really recovered.
He remained lucid, however, telling his son on December 9. "Say goodbye, Geoff." He also said on more than one occasion, "I'm just so tired."
Dr. Deuel quietly passed away, at 10:00pm, December 11, 2013. He was 99 years old.
Dr. Deuel is survived by his son Geoffrey and daughter-in-law, Jacqueline, of St Petersburg, Florida; his daughter, Pamela, of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and his granddaughter, Jennifer Seymour, of Wisconsin.
Also, his brother-in-law, Theodore "Ted" J. Ellstrom, and wife, Dawn , of Webster, New York; and sister-in-law, Naomi J. Ellstrom Rupe of Altoona, Pennsylvania; as well as many cousins, a myriad of nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews and second cousins on both sides.
Thank you so much Dad.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel married on November 24th,1938.
Dr. and Mrs. Deuel also had a daughter, Jennifer Deuel born September 12,1952 at 4 p.m. and she passed away the next morning, September 13, 1952 at 8 a.m.
A memorial service for Dr. Ellsworth S. Deuel, who passed away on Dec. 11, 2013, will be held on Saturday, April 26, at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church, 1862 Penfield Road, Penfield.
Noted Penfield Physician
Saturday, April 26th, 2014 at 10 AM
First Baptist Church of Penfield
1862 Penfield Road, Penfield, NY 14526
Services and Refreshments
In lieu of flowers, consider memorials to the Lollipop animal rescue or the Baptist Church
Published in MPNnow on Apr. 17, 2014.
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