John Lester Duffy ( Jack) passed on April 29, 2014 in Middlebury VT. He was born January 26, 1927 to Lester M. and Mildred Aitken Duffy. He grew up in Northport, Long Island and graduated from Northport High School in 1945, Columbia University in 1948, and New York Medical College in 1952. Dr. Duffy received his Pathology training at Meadowbrook Hospital, Long Island and at Murphy Army Hospital in Waltham, MA where he was a Captain in the US Army Reserves. He returned to Meadowbrook and became Associate Chairman of Pathology and Director of Clinical Laboratories at Meadowbrook/Nassau County Medical Center (now Nassau University Medical Center). He held various teaching positions including Professor of Pathology at SUNY Stony Brook Medical School. Dr. Duffy was a member of the Nassau County and New York State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, and was a fellow of the Nassau Academy of Medicine, the college of American Pathologists, and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. On June 21, 1952 he married Katherine Smyth Duffy (Kaye) in Northport. She was the daughter of James P. and Estelle Quinlan Smyth. The Duffys lived in Northport and Laurel Hollow, NY before moving to Orwell, VT in 1989 and to EastView in Middlebury VT in 2013. Survivors include Katherine, his wife of 60 some years, his daughter Sarah Q. Duffy and her partner, Spencer Clark of Rockville, MD, his son John A. Duffy and his daughter-in-law Kristine D. Duffy of Queensbury, NY, his son-in-law David H. Bain of Orwell, VT, his grandchildren Mildred A. Bain (Mimi), David M. Bain, John W. Duffy (Jack) and Sean A. Duffy. Dr. Duffy was predeceased by his daughter Mary Smyth Duffy in 2002. His family, medicine, music, philately, leather craft, gardening, hunting, fishing and all of nature were Dr. Duffys main interests. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 PM Friday, May 2, 2014 at Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home, 117 S.Main St., Middlebury. The funeral service will be conducted at 10 AM Saturday, May 3, 2014 at the funeral home with Rev. Barnaby Feder, pastor, Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Church officiating. Burial will follow at Mountainview Cemetery, Orwell. Those desiring may make memorial donations to Boys Town, 14100 Crawford St., Boys Town, NE 68010 or to the charity of ones choice. Online condolences may be expressed at sandersonfuneralservice.com.