Douglas P. Davies ’62 was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1936, the oldest of four children. He grew up in Stoneham, Massachusetts, where his father taught music. He graduated from Greater Boston Academy and Atlantic Union College before attending Loma Linda University. He married Nell Rittenhouse in 1956, and they had three sons. Dr. Davies interned at Washington Adventist Hospital and was drafted into the U.S. Army immediately after his internship. He was stationed at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Washington, for two years before going into practice with his father-in-law, Leon K. Rittenhouse ’38, in Northborough, Massachusetts, in 1965.
In 1980, he joined the U.S. Army again—serving in Darmstadt, Germany, for three years and at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey for one year. He remained in the Army Reserve until he retired in 1999. The family moved to Maine in 1987, and he continued practicing general medicine in the Greater Portland area.
He died May 26, 2021, and is survived by his former wife, Nell; sons, Scott, Steven, and Michael; and grandchildren, Sarah, Shaun, and Joshua Davies.