Son of Everett E. and Anna Dykstra Sugarbaker.
SUGARBAKER
Dr. Everett D. Sugarbaker, 90, Jefferson City, died Jan. 7, 2001, at Capital Region Medical Center.
He was born Dec. 4, 1910, in Paterson, N.J., a son of Everett E. and Anna Dykstra Sugarbaker. He was married Dec. 28, 1935, to Geneva Van Dyke, who survives at the home.
He graduated from Wheaton College in 1931 and received his medical degree from Cornell Medical College in 1935. He received general and cancer surgery training at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and was a fellow in surgery at Lahey Clinic, Boston.
He was chief surgeon at the National Cancer Institute, then in Baltimore. He was recruited to be chief surgeon at Ellis Fishel State Cancer Hospital, where he worked from 1942 to 1947.
He then founded the Sugarbaker Clinic for Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases in Jefferson City, where he practiced cancer surgery from 1947 until his retirement in 1983. He designed advanced cancer surgical procedures and was an expert in surgical techniques.
He authored the "Atlas of Surgical Oncology," which surgeons use as a reference, and more than 200 original publications in cancer surgery and research. His researched cancer metastasis, the biologic event which defeats successful surgical resection of cancer. He proved the "seed soil hypothesis" in metastasis and his 1952 publication on the subject is used as a reference item.
He was a member of medical and non-medical societies including: the American College of Surgeons, Society of Surgical Oncology, Society of Head and Neck Surgeons and the American Cancer Society. He supported medical and Evangelical missions in the United States and around the world and went on volunteer surgical missions in Haiti and Bangladesh.
He provided support to educate several African American students at Lincoln University.
The Sugarbaker Family Scholarship at Wheaton College funds the tuition for two full-time students in the premedical curriculum. The Geneva and Everett D. Sugarbaker Foundation also funds those activities.
Survivors include: six daughters, Rena Pederson, Yorkville, Ill.; Geneva Sugarbaker, Ballwin; Eve Tolley, Norwalk, Conn., Deborah Digges-Leow, Worchester, Mass., Connie More, Webster Groves, and Elizabeth Akre, Ladue; four sons, Everett V. Sugarbaker, Miami, Paul H. Sugarbaker, Washington, D.C., David J. Sugarbaker, Milton, Mass., and Stephen P. Sugarbaker, Jefferson City; and 29 grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Concord Baptist Church.
Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at Houser-Millard Funeral Home.
Memorials are suggested to Concord Baptist Church Television Ministries, 3724 W. Truman Blvd., Jefferson City, Mo. 65109.
SUGARBAKER
Dr. Everett D. Sugarbaker, 90, Jefferson City, died Jan. 7, 2001, at Capital Region Medical Center.
He was born Dec. 4, 1910, in Paterson, N.J., a son of Everett E. and Anna Dykstra Sugarbaker. He was married Dec. 28, 1935, to Geneva Van Dyke, who survives at the home.
He graduated from Wheaton College in 1931 and received his medical degree from Cornell Medical College in 1935. He received general and cancer surgery training at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and was a fellow in surgery at Lahey Clinic, Boston.
He was chief surgeon at the National Cancer Institute, then in Baltimore. He was recruited to be chief surgeon at Ellis Fishel State Cancer Hospital, where he worked from 1942 to 1947.
He then founded the Sugarbaker Clinic for Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases in Jefferson City, where he practiced cancer surgery from 1947 until his retirement in 1983. He designed advanced cancer surgical procedures and was an expert in surgical techniques.
He authored the "Atlas of Surgical Oncology," which surgeons use as a reference, and more than 200 original publications in cancer surgery and research. His researched cancer metastasis, the biologic event which defeats successful surgical resection of cancer. He proved the "seed soil hypothesis" in metastasis and his 1952 publication on the subject is used as a reference item.
He was a member of medical and non-medical societies including: the American College of Surgeons, Society of Surgical Oncology, Society of Head and Neck Surgeons and the American Cancer Society. He supported medical and Evangelical missions in the United States and around the world and went on volunteer surgical missions in Haiti and Bangladesh.
He provided support to educate several African American students at Lincoln University.
The Sugarbaker Family Scholarship at Wheaton College funds the tuition for two full-time students in the premedical curriculum. The Geneva and Everett D. Sugarbaker Foundation also funds those activities.
Survivors include: six daughters, Rena Pederson, Yorkville, Ill.; Geneva Sugarbaker, Ballwin; Eve Tolley, Norwalk, Conn., Deborah Digges-Leow, Worchester, Mass., Connie More, Webster Groves, and Elizabeth Akre, Ladue; four sons, Everett V. Sugarbaker, Miami, Paul H. Sugarbaker, Washington, D.C., David J. Sugarbaker, Milton, Mass., and Stephen P. Sugarbaker, Jefferson City; and 29 grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Concord Baptist Church.
Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at Houser-Millard Funeral Home.
Memorials are suggested to Concord Baptist Church Television Ministries, 3724 W. Truman Blvd., Jefferson City, Mo. 65109.
Son of Everett E. and Anna Dykstra Sugarbaker.
SUGARBAKER
Dr. Everett D. Sugarbaker, 90, Jefferson City, died Jan. 7, 2001, at Capital Region Medical Center.
He was born Dec. 4, 1910, in Paterson, N.J., a son of Everett E. and Anna Dykstra Sugarbaker. He was married Dec. 28, 1935, to Geneva Van Dyke, who survives at the home.
He graduated from Wheaton College in 1931 and received his medical degree from Cornell Medical College in 1935. He received general and cancer surgery training at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and was a fellow in surgery at Lahey Clinic, Boston.
He was chief surgeon at the National Cancer Institute, then in Baltimore. He was recruited to be chief surgeon at Ellis Fishel State Cancer Hospital, where he worked from 1942 to 1947.
He then founded the Sugarbaker Clinic for Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases in Jefferson City, where he practiced cancer surgery from 1947 until his retirement in 1983. He designed advanced cancer surgical procedures and was an expert in surgical techniques.
He authored the "Atlas of Surgical Oncology," which surgeons use as a reference, and more than 200 original publications in cancer surgery and research. His researched cancer metastasis, the biologic event which defeats successful surgical resection of cancer. He proved the "seed soil hypothesis" in metastasis and his 1952 publication on the subject is used as a reference item.
He was a member of medical and non-medical societies including: the American College of Surgeons, Society of Surgical Oncology, Society of Head and Neck Surgeons and the American Cancer Society. He supported medical and Evangelical missions in the United States and around the world and went on volunteer surgical missions in Haiti and Bangladesh.
He provided support to educate several African American students at Lincoln University.
The Sugarbaker Family Scholarship at Wheaton College funds the tuition for two full-time students in the premedical curriculum. The Geneva and Everett D. Sugarbaker Foundation also funds those activities.
Survivors include: six daughters, Rena Pederson, Yorkville, Ill.; Geneva Sugarbaker, Ballwin; Eve Tolley, Norwalk, Conn., Deborah Digges-Leow, Worchester, Mass., Connie More, Webster Groves, and Elizabeth Akre, Ladue; four sons, Everett V. Sugarbaker, Miami, Paul H. Sugarbaker, Washington, D.C., David J. Sugarbaker, Milton, Mass., and Stephen P. Sugarbaker, Jefferson City; and 29 grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Concord Baptist Church.
Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at Houser-Millard Funeral Home.
Memorials are suggested to Concord Baptist Church Television Ministries, 3724 W. Truman Blvd., Jefferson City, Mo. 65109.
SUGARBAKER
Dr. Everett D. Sugarbaker, 90, Jefferson City, died Jan. 7, 2001, at Capital Region Medical Center.
He was born Dec. 4, 1910, in Paterson, N.J., a son of Everett E. and Anna Dykstra Sugarbaker. He was married Dec. 28, 1935, to Geneva Van Dyke, who survives at the home.
He graduated from Wheaton College in 1931 and received his medical degree from Cornell Medical College in 1935. He received general and cancer surgery training at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and was a fellow in surgery at Lahey Clinic, Boston.
He was chief surgeon at the National Cancer Institute, then in Baltimore. He was recruited to be chief surgeon at Ellis Fishel State Cancer Hospital, where he worked from 1942 to 1947.
He then founded the Sugarbaker Clinic for Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases in Jefferson City, where he practiced cancer surgery from 1947 until his retirement in 1983. He designed advanced cancer surgical procedures and was an expert in surgical techniques.
He authored the "Atlas of Surgical Oncology," which surgeons use as a reference, and more than 200 original publications in cancer surgery and research. His researched cancer metastasis, the biologic event which defeats successful surgical resection of cancer. He proved the "seed soil hypothesis" in metastasis and his 1952 publication on the subject is used as a reference item.
He was a member of medical and non-medical societies including: the American College of Surgeons, Society of Surgical Oncology, Society of Head and Neck Surgeons and the American Cancer Society. He supported medical and Evangelical missions in the United States and around the world and went on volunteer surgical missions in Haiti and Bangladesh.
He provided support to educate several African American students at Lincoln University.
The Sugarbaker Family Scholarship at Wheaton College funds the tuition for two full-time students in the premedical curriculum. The Geneva and Everett D. Sugarbaker Foundation also funds those activities.
Survivors include: six daughters, Rena Pederson, Yorkville, Ill.; Geneva Sugarbaker, Ballwin; Eve Tolley, Norwalk, Conn., Deborah Digges-Leow, Worchester, Mass., Connie More, Webster Groves, and Elizabeth Akre, Ladue; four sons, Everett V. Sugarbaker, Miami, Paul H. Sugarbaker, Washington, D.C., David J. Sugarbaker, Milton, Mass., and Stephen P. Sugarbaker, Jefferson City; and 29 grandchildren.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Concord Baptist Church.
Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at Houser-Millard Funeral Home.
Memorials are suggested to Concord Baptist Church Television Ministries, 3724 W. Truman Blvd., Jefferson City, Mo. 65109.
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