Stanton L. "Ted" Sheimo M.D.

Ted was born in 1919, in Fertile, Iowa. He attended St. Olaf College in Minnesota, where he was a star athlete and captain of the varsity basketball team, and went on to earn his medical degree from the University of Iowa Medical School. In 1942 he met and married Alaire Reed, a University of Iowa beauty queen who was a gifted singer and athlete and a business major. They enjoyed 53 years of marriage until her death, in 1995.

Ted joined the U.S. Navy right after Pearl Harbor while still a medical student, and after finishing his medical education he entered active service and trained at Farragut Naval Hospital until 1944, when he was sent overseas to the Pacific as a lieutenant. He served as a Navy doctor assigned to the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing of the U.S. Marine Air Corps in Majuro and Kwajaleen in the Marshall Islands and in Guam. After the war, Ted and Alaire settled in San Francisco, where he began an illustrious 40-year career as a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

In 1951 Ted completed his psychiatric residency at the prestigious Langley Porter Clinic at the University of California - San Francisco Medical School, afterward establishing a successful private practice in San Francisco and San Mateo, and holding appointments on the clinical faculty at the UC Medical School in San Francisco and the Stanford University Medical School. In 1965 the Sheimos relocated to Washington State, where Ted became the Director of the Child Study and Treatment Center at Western Washington State Hospital and a clinical associate professor at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle, all while continuing his busy private practice. Ted was a pioneer in his field and is an honored member of many prestigious professional organizations.

Ted and Alaire and their three children, Dianne, Theodore and Thomas, led an active life, enjoying water and snow skiing, sailing, music, fishing, and horseback riding. Ted and Alaire were enthusiastic travelers, taking many trips abroad through Europe and North America. When Ted was 75, he took up contemporary painting, turning his office into an art studio where he would paint every day.

In 2003, Ted moved to Massachusetts to be near his daughter Dianne and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Since October 2003, Ted has been a resident of Whitehall Estate in Hyannis, where he was a popular member of the Whitehall community, an avid Red Sox fan, and an expert in current events. Ted always kept in touch with friends and family around the country, who remember him as a wonderful doctor and a truly good and kind man.

Ted has been surrounded by wonderful family members and friends throughout his life. He is predeceased by his beloved wife, Alaire, and by his youngest son, Thomas A. Sheimo, who have been deeply missed by the family. Ted is survived by his children, Dianne S. Burden of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Theodore C. Sheimo and his wife, Maureen, of Lake Chelan, Washington; by his closest friends’ children, Sue Naylor of Austin, Texas, and her family, and Andrew Szurek of Mount Vernon, Washington, and his partner, Amy; by his grandchildren, Chris Burden and his wife, Penelope Clark, of New York City, Caroline Maas and her husband, Andreas, of Berlin, Germany, and Riley Sheimo and his mother, Brenda Sheimo, and step-father, Bill Preib, of Seattle, Washington; by his great-grandchildren, Isabel Maas, Julian Burden, and Henry Maas; and by Alaire’s brother, Dr. Robert Reed, and his wife, Lucille, of Galesburg, Illinois, and their family.

Ted’s family would like to express their sincerest appreciation to the wonderful staff of Whitehall Estate for their years of loving care of Ted, as well as to Dr. William Feeney, and the staff of Privatus Nursing.

A private memorial service will be held later in Washington State.

Arrangements under the direction of Nickerson-Bourne Funeral Home, Sandwich, MA.