Donald T. Sherwood 74;
Surgeon Served Tri-Town
Area For 50 Years

UNADILLA – Donald Thomas Sherwood, M.D., 74, of Unadilla, a surgeon in the Tri-Town area for a half-century, passed away peacefully at home on Jan. 21, 2019, surrounded by his loving family.
He will be remembered by his family as well as by the community that relied on his tireless work ethic, kindness, vitality, love of all God’s people and creatures, generous spirit, humility and insatiable quest for knowledge.
Born on Jan. 18, 1945, Dr. Sherwood was the third of seven children born to John Robert Sherwood and Helen Cullinan Sherwood at Sunnyside Hospital on Staten Island.
He attended Our Lady of Good Counsel grammar school, Cardinal Farley High School, and graduated Fordham University in 1966. He then earned his medical degree from New York Medical College in 1970. He was selected as chief surgical resident at Metropolitan Hospital in 1974 and became a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery in 1975.