Sherwood Davies, World War II veteran, lifetime activist, card-player, and devoted father and grandfather with a sharp sense of humor and dress, died Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at the age of 100. Sherwood was interviewed in 2015 as part of the PBS documentary, " The Forgotten Plague." See: Memories of Stony Wold Sanatorium on Lake Kushaqua Sherwood wrote at length of his memories growing up at and around Stony Wold Sanatorium. Sherwood returned to Stony Wold as a patient in 1937 after being diagnosed with TB in his sophomore year at RPI. While Howard was a patient at Ray Brook, Grace was hired as the Postmaster at Stony Wold Sanatorium in 1923. Grace was a TB patient at Stony Wold Sanatorium in 1914, and Howard was a patient at the New York State Hospital at Ray Brook in 1922. Sherwood Davies was born in Syracuse, New York to Grace Griffiths Davies and Howard Davies. Parents: Grace Griffiths Davies, Howard Davies Sherwood Davies on the bridge at Lake Kushaqua, 1994.
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