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Sherwood Staples Cadwell Aug. 20, 1926 to Feb. 20, 2017

Sherwood Staples Cadwell

Siesta Key, Fla. and Lakewood, N.Y. — Sherry was the son of Fanny Thompson and Marion Staples Cadwell. He was preceded in death by his parents; and his brother, Samuel Thompson Cadwell.

Sherry attended Jamestown Public Schools and graduated from Western Reserve Academy in 1944 and from Williams College in 1948. He served in the U.S. Navy in Europe during the Korean conflict. Following his service in the Navy, he attended the University of Virginia Law School and after graduating joined the law firm of Rogerson and Hewes in Jamestown, N.Y. He subsequently went into practice with Robert Sharpe in the firm of Cadwell and Sharpe. In the 1970s he joined Phillips Lytle of Buffalo, N.Y.

Sherry served as president of the South- western Central School Board and he was a trustee of the State University of New York at Fredonia. He also served as an elder and a deacon at First Presbyterian Church of Jamestown, N.Y., and Siesta Key Chapel, Fla.

Sherry was a man full of energy and love and gratitude for his wife, daughters, grandsons, sons-in-law, friends and standard poodles. He and his wife, Carol Ecklund Cadwell, friends since seventh grade, were married for 61 terrific years. There was a mutual devotion between Sherry and his three daughters: Carrie Cadwell Brown (David), Susan Cadwell Upton (William) and Jane Sherwood Cadwell. His grandsons: Charles Trowbridge Upton (Elana Boehm), Thompson Cadwell Upton (Constance) and Henry Eaton Upton, will remember him for his boundless generosity, his appetite for fun and his cinnamon bun recipe.

Sherry was a joyful man with eternal optimism. He had friends who ranged in age from two to 94 and thrived on the connections he made while spreading his enthusiasm to all he encountered.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., on Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Siesta Key Chapel and in New York at a later date.

Donations may be made in Sherry’s name and memory to The Siesta Key Chapel, Siesta Key Fla., or the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy.