Stewart S. Richmond

Stewart "Stew" Samuel Richmond, MD, 81 of Bedford, NH passed away peacefully on January 10 at the CRVNA Hospice House in Concord after a valiant years long struggle with Parkinson's disease. Stew was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1939 to Samuel and Hazel Richmond. He graduated cum laude from St. Paul's School and attended Amherst College where he graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. During his college years he met and fell in love with Carolyn Lewis who became his wife in 1962. Stew graduated from Cornell University Medical College as a member of Sigma Xi. He completed his medical training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at San Francisco's University of California Hospital and at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston.

Stew joined the US Air Force during the Vietnam War and was "loaned" to the US Army to provide medical services in the war theater. Leaving a wife and two young sons in the United States, he spent 1968 in Vietnam. After his combat experience, Stew reunited with his family and spent a year at Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Washington. He retired from the Air Force as a Captain.

In 1972, after his military service and upon completion of his medical training, Stew and his family (a daughter had joined the sons) moved to New Hampshire and started practice in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology in Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1984, with his partners, Stew established the first satellite clinic of Dartmouth Hitchcock. For 25 years, Stew was a leader in the Internal Medicine Department and helped the Dartmouth Hitchcock enterprise grow. Developing many lifelong relationships during his tenure, he truly loved getting to know his patients and addressing their medical concerns. After his formal retirement from the Dartmouth Hitchcock in 2009, Stew continued to serve his community at the Indigent Clinic at CMC. In addition to serving a term as President of the Medical Staff of the Elliot Hospital he was on the boards of the Elliot Hospital, Manchester Mental Health Center, Bank of Numerica and Easter Seals.

Throughout his life Stew was an active sportsman. Beginning with high school (football, hockey, baseball), college (hockey) and later in life (running, cycling, hiking, golf and skiing), Stew enjoyed pushing and challenging himself physically. He ran a total of five marathons; bicycled from Portland, ME to Savannah, GA as well as through the Alps; climbed the Grand Teton, WY; trekked around Mount Denali, Alaska; backpacked through many National Parks and skied in New England, the Alps and the Rockies. He was a long time member of the Concord Country Club and a loyal skier at Sugarloaf Mountain, Maine.

Stew also loved to travel. Stew and Carolyn travelled extensively throughout the world seeing every continent except Antarctica. Highlights of their travel were a return to Vietnam and taking each of their five grandchildren on their own international trip. Stew loved the latest spy thriller, a good IPA and finally enjoying the recent success of the Boston sports teams. His greatest love, other than Carolyn, his life partner, was watching his children and grandchildren chase their own dreams and follow his lifelong passions for the outdoors, intellectual curiosity and service.

Stew is survived by Carolyn, his wife of 58 years; his two sisters, Carol Parks of Westbrook, ME and Judith Walters of Kensington, MD; and his three children and their families – Stewart Jr. of Manchester, NH and his children, Samuel, Caleb, and Hannah; Davis of Concord, NH and Cynthia Umscheid of Winchester, MA, her husband Matt and children Hazel and Will.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (www.michaeljfox.org) and Grace Episcopal Church (www.gracechurchmanchester.org). A celebration of life will be held at a later date.