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Stevens Thompson Jr. Norvell

Stevens Thompson Jr. Norvell

Passed in: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Passed on: February 7th, 2015

Died February 7, 2015, four days short of his 92nd birthday, after a short illness. He was born in Hinsdale, the first of three children of Stevens Thompson Norvell and Cora Uvon Kellam Norvell. While in the U.S. army in 1944, he began medical studies at the University of
Illinois, and received an M.D. (with honours) in June of 1947. He became a licensed physician in 1948. He married Dorothy Dungan, June 4, 1948. They divorced in 1978. Stevens, having become convinced that war is perhaps the greatest evil of humankind, wished to avoid being drafted for military service in Korea. He and Dorothy moved the interior of British Columbia in 1950, where he worked as a physician. He then trained as a surgeon in Alberta and the U.K., becoming a certified surgeon in 1957 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in 1958. In 1961, Stevens and Dorothy moved to Halifax, N.S., where he became a member of
the Department of Surgery at Dalhousie University. He advanced to Full Professor and became a Professor Emeritus after retirement. Stevens served as director of the General Surgical Resident Training Programme at Dalhousie University. He created and for 19 years edited the Examination for Residents of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons. His greatest clinical and research interest was in malignant melanoma. He wrote or contributed to about 50 publications in the medical literature. He retired in 1993. In retirement, Stevens, a fluent speaker of Esperanto, travelled to many countries using Esperanto, was host to many travelling Esperantists in his home in Halifax, took pride in his library of 2000 Esperanto books, published about 150 articles in various Esperanto periodicals, and helped in the editing of three Esperanto dictionaries. In 2008 he moved to St. John's, Newfoundland to live with his son. Despite advancing age, his mind remained strong, curious, and active; he was especially proud of his marks in university calculus courses taken late in life. He is survived by his daughter, Cindy Norvell, M.D., her husband Coleman Palmieri, their children, Teo Palmieri and Rhiannon Palmieri, all of Laytonville, Ca, U.S.A.; and by his son, Theodore Norvell, Ph.D., his son's partner Cheryl Schulz, and their daughter, Saskia Schulz-Norvell, all of St. John's, NL. His family would like to thank the nurses of 7 West, St. Clare's Hospital, Dr. Sahar Iqbal, Cecile Abuque, Dr. Katherine Stringer, Denise Cahill, NP, the Community Health nurses of Eastern Health, Kim Furlong, PT, Wendy Janes, and many others for their extraordinary care and kindness. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to MSF or Oxfam. Please join us for an open house in celebration of Stevens's life on Saturday, February 14 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm at 4 Cork Place, St. John?s, NL. His full obituary is at http://bit.ly/1A3CrLr.

 

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