Stanwood Bay Churchill ’48

Stanwood Bay Churchill ’48, D.V.M., of Orleans, Vermont, died on June 11, 2014, surrounded by his family. After graduating high school he attended Dartmouth for a semester before enlisting in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. After serving two enlistments he returned to Dartmouth and completed his degree in history. On September 7, 1950, he married his sweetheart, Eleanor Hunt. He attended the University of New Hampshire to strengthen his course requirements and was accepted at the veterinary school at Cornell University, graduating with a doctorate of veterinary medicine in 1957. He and Eleanor then moved to the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont to set up his practice and raise their children. Stan treated both large and small animals in his practice, which covered four counties, two states and occasional excursions into Quebec, Canada. Due to hi-tech regulations he chose retirement over computerization in 2012. During these years he acquired many hobbies. In 1960 he disappeared overnight and returned with his first American standardbred racehorse, Addison Hanover. For the next 36 years he bred, raised, raced and drove his beloved standardbreds to and from New York, Maine and Canadian fairs and raceways. He and his childhood friend John Simons Jr. went into partnership, creating Vermont Farms, a business that owned two dairy farms, one in Brownington and one in Barton. He is survived by children Benjamin, George (and his wife, Robyn) and Terese and grandchildren George and Maggie. He was predeceased by his wife, Eleanor.