Dr. Elliot D. Turnbull

PORTLAND – Dr. Elliot Turnbull, 90, passed away peacefully Feb. 20, 2022 at St. Josephs Rehabilitation and Residence where he lived for the last four years under the excellent care of their wonderful staff.

Elliot was born in Clinton, Mass. He graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Mass. and Tufts Medical school in Boston with a degree in medicine. He practiced briefly in Portland before moving to Naples and then to Norway.

Elliot had a family medical practice at his office in Naples and practiced at Northern Cumberland Memorial Hospital in Bridgton, Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway, and at hospitals in Conway N.H., and Poland before he retired.

In addition to being a physician, Elliot was very industrious throughout his life. He ran a farm and bed and breakfast at the Elm House on the Songo Locks Road in Naples in the 1960s and then built and ran Brandy Pond Park, also in Naples. Elliot retired to Florida where he enjoyed fishing and growing orchids, and loved to host family lobster bakes on his returns to Maine.

Elliot is predeceased by his mother, Violet, father, Arthur; brother, Walter; second wife, Anne, and third wife, Lin.

He is survived by his first wife, Doris Bahl of Appleton Minn.; son, Robert of Appleton, Minn., son, David of Portland, son, William of Virginia Beach, Va., daughter, Elizabeth of Machias; as well as many stepchildren; grandchildren; and great-grandchildren.