* A Memorial Service for Gordon and Enid Winchell will be held 11 am Saturday, June 2, at the First Parish in Lincoln, 14 Bedford Road. * Dr. Gordon D. Winchell: Beloved Family Doctor, Advocate for Peace and Conservationist. Dr. Gordon D. Winchell of Lincoln, 98, died peacefully on May 9, just three months after his beloved wife Enid, in his home overlooking Farrar Pond. Family members surrounded him as his daughter sang Oh, Shenandoah. A World War II veteran, peace activist and beloved family doctor for nearly 40 years, Gordon was born on November 29, 1919, to Evelyn and Guilbert Winchell in Belmont. At the age of five he moved with his three siblings Guilbert Jr., Richard and Dorothyto Pine Loch, a house built by his parents on Farrar Pond in Lincoln that nurtured his love of birds, plants and the natural world. In a brief history of his life entitled Growing Up on Farrar Pond, Gordon remembered how his mother, originally from Pottstown, PA, brought her culture of flowers and a family farm to our new home. In addition to a large vegetable garden, we had a variety of dogs, chickens, pigs, two horses, and one or two cows to be milked. Gordon attended the Lincoln Public Schools and Concord High School. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1941 and from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1944. After a Medical Corps internship at the Naval Hospital in Camp LeJeune, NC, he served as a medical officer with the US Navy on the Pacific Island of Saipan. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the West Roxbury Veterans Hospital, and later served as a medical officer in the Korean War. Gordon met his future wife, Enid Clarke, a World War II British evacuee, in 1940 when she was visiting a fellow British schoolgirl living with the Winchells. Enid and two of her siblings, Jean and Hugh, had been evacuated from London to escape the German Blitz and were staying with an American family in Cambridge, MA. Gordon first declared his romantic interest in Enid when he handed her a dozen red roses as she boarded a ship back to England in 1944. Following a transatlantic courtship, Enid and Gordon were married in Surrey, England, on April 16, l949. After several years in nearby Lexington, Gordon returned to Lincoln in 1954 with his family to set up a practice in primary care medicine. He was the first physician to open a Lincoln practice in 40 years and became the first board-certified Internist at Emerson Hospital, where he practiced medicine for 36 years. He and his wife purchased a home, with space for his medical practice, on Lincoln Road where his young children occasionally entertained patients in the waiting room. He was joined in 1959 by Dr. Charles Keevil Jr., with whom he forged a lifelong friendship. In the spring of 1965, Gordon moved with his young family into his boyhood home on Farrar Pond to care for his aging father. He shared his adventurous spirit and love of the family land with his four children, teaching them how to swim, ski and negotiate thin ice on skates. He continued to ski, skate and wield a chainsaw well into his nineties. Gordon was artistic and imaginative in every aspect of his life. He made up games like fried undershirt when his children were young and told them ceiling stories. He made fabulous terrariums from wild plants. Upon retiring, he traveled with Enid on sketching and watercolor trips to other countries. Their creative partnership showed in their shared gardens, landscaping, and abundant flower arrangements. Gordon was a conservationist at heartpreserving open land, maintaining conservation trails along Farrar Pond, and serving for many years as the president of the Farrar Pond Association. In 1966, Gordon built a medical office abutting the family property. In 1988, he and Dr. Keevil welcomed a third physician, Dr. Lynn Weigel, to their practice. Gordon believed strongly in small primary care practices tied closely to their surrounding communities, and he frequently made house calls right up to his retirement at age 70. Gordon was also the covering physician at MIT Lincoln Labs and an active member of the American Medical Association and the Massachusetts Medical Society. He helped found Emerson Hospitals laboratory and blood bank and served as president of the Emerson Hospital medical staff and as chairman of their Medical Ethics Committee. Gordon and his wife Enid were vocal members of Beyond War, and he was active in both Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. For Lincolns Fourth of July parades, Gordon and Enid created floats with their children and grandchildren, festooning them with flowers and messages of peace. In 1988, Gordon was listed by Boston Magazine as one of the 25 top primary care physicians in the Boston area. In 2000, he received the Community Clinician of the Year Award from the Middlesex Central District Medical Society and the Massachusetts Medical Society. That same year, he accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from The First Parish in Lincoln for all you have given and continue to give to the people of the Town of Lincoln, to Emerson Hospital and to the well-being of this, your church(and) for being such a steady and passionate advocate for nuclear disarmament, for an end to war, and for peace and justice for all the families of the earth. He was an active member of the First Parish Peace and Justice Committee and sang for years in the First Parish choir, once even performing the booming voice of God. Gordon enjoyed listening to classical music, often conducting with his arms or feet in the last months of his life. He loved singing folk songs, family songs, and beating the drum. When asked if he wanted to sing a song the day before he died, he replied, Im always ready to sing a song and so he was. Gordon is survived by his sons William and Fred, of Lincoln; son Gordon Jr. of Portland, ME; and daughter Meg of Moorestown, NJ; and their spouses; as well as by his nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren. He will be remembered with devotion and love by friends and family as a compassionate and gifted doctor. His innate sense of gratitude and curiosity for life were a gift to all who knew him. A memorial service will be held on Saturday June 2, 2018 at 11 am at The First Parish, 14 Bedford Road, Lincoln, MA. Arrangements are under the care of Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord.