Memorial for Joseph Luther Kelly
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Born in Norfolk, Virginia on Jan. 7, 1957
Departed on Feb. 27, 2010 and resided in Annapolis, MD.
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Mar. 6, 2010
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Dr. Joseph Luther Kelly, 53, of Annapolis, Maryland, died Saturday February 27 in a single engine airplane crash in Edgewater, Maryland.
Dr. Kelly was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and was a graduate of the Norfolk Academy. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and attended the University of Virginia Medical School. He did his residency in internal medicine at the University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell in New York City. He worked as an emergency room physician and hospitalist in New York, NY, Tappahannock, VA and Norfolk, VA. For the past seven years he worked as a Medical Officer in the Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working primarily on hospital issues.
Dr. Kelly was an avid sailor and loved to fly. Over the past year he volunteered in the Veterans Airlift Command, a nonprofit organization that provides free air transportation to wounded veterans for medical and compassionate purposes, with priority on the veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Kelly also looked forward to his regular squash games at the Naval Academy.
Survivors include two sisters, Mary Nash Rusher of Raleigh, NC and Leeny Oberg of Bethesda, MD; brothers-in-law John Rusher and Keith Oberg, and six beloved nieces and nephews: Tom, David and Kelly Rusher and Colleen, Curtis and Tim Oberg.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Veterans Airlift Command, 5775 Wayzata Boulevard, Suite 700, St. Louis Park, MN 55416 or Norfolk Academy, 1585 Wesleyan Drive, Norfolk, VA 23502.
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This Memorial Obituary provided by
Robert A. Pumphrey Funeral Home/Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Inc.
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