Dr. Barry W. Brodil, 77, died at home in Plymouth on Friday, July 12.
He grew up in Randolph, where his family owned Brodil’s Bootery, a family shoe store. He attended Randolph public schools until high school when he transferred to Cardinal Spellman High School. After graduation, he went to Stonehill College and graduated in 1968.
In the fall of 1968, he entered the Navy as a member of Naval Flight Training Class 41-68. Just before he was commissioned, he was accepted to Georgetown Dental School and left the Navy to continue his education. Class 41-68, however, still considered him one of them and has remained in touch for 56 years.
He graduated from Georgetown with honors in 1973 and started his dental practice in Holbrook, eventually moving to Hanover. He practiced for 42 years. He was active in the dental community and served both as president and chairman of the Peer Review Committee of the South Shore Dental Society; chairman of the Council on Dental Benefits of the Massachusetts Dental Society; and board member of the Eastern Dental Insurance Company.
He was also active in the communities where he lived and was president of the Holbrook and Duxbury Rotary Clubs and a Stephen Minister at the Pilgrim Church of Duxbury.
An avid skier, after retirement, he and his wife, Janice (MacQuarrie), became residents of Bartlett, New Hampshire. Unfortunately, in February 2020, he had a ski accident that caused damage to his spinal column resulting in being paralyzed from his chest down. But with physical therapy and advances in adaptive equipment, he returned to playing golf and pickleball, driving, and recently started adaptive trail biking. With Janice, he was a peer mentor for newly injured spinal cord persons and their families through SCIboston, the Boston chapter of the United Spinal Association.
In June, Barry and Janice took his first airplane trip since his accident and traveled to Utah to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with their son, Alex, and his wife, Melissa (Crespo) with friends at Alex and Melissa’s home in Park City.
As well as being survived by his wife, Janice, and son, Alex and daughter-in-law Melissa, he is survived by his brother, Robert Brodil and his wife, Connie (Doyle), of Falmouth; his sister, Marcial Baxter and her husband, Henry, of Falmouth; and many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.
Visiting hours will be held on Monday, July 29, from 3 to 7 p.m., at Cartmell-Davis Funeral Home, 619 State Road, Plymouth, MA, 02360.
A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, July 30, at 10:30 a.m., at Pilgrim Congregational Church, 404 Washington Street, Duxbury, MA, 02332.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: SCIboston, 2 Rehabilitation Way, Woburn, MA, 01801, or you can donate online here. Donations can also be made to Spaulding Rehabilitation Cape Cod, P.O. Box 489, Sandwich, MA, 02563, or online here.