Longtime Milwaukeean Aaron Sweed, M.D., of Waukesha, died of natural causes Oct. 30. He was 88.
Born in Russia, he came to Milwaukee with his family in 1923, at the age of six.
He graduated from West Division High School, as valedictorian, in 1935, and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1939. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Lamda Epsilon, a national honorary chemistry fraternity.
In 1943, he graduated from the medical school at UW-Madison where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, a national honorary medical fraternity.
He served in the U.S. military during World War II in the South Pacific, stationed in the Philippines, and later as a transport surgeon. In 1946, while on leave, he married Rosetta Safer, his wife of 59 years, who survives him.
After a three-year residency in Baltimore, he moved to Waukesha and began an internal medicine practice at Waukesha Memorial Hospital in 1950. He served as Chief of Medicine there for several years and retired in 1993 after 43 years of practice.
He was a member and past president of Congregation Emanu-El of Waukesha. He enjoyed the performing arts, reading, traveling and playing the piano, and was devoted to his family and the practice of medicine, his family said.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by daughters Laurie (Stuart) Schwartz of Denver and Deborah (Dr. Stuart) Byer of Vero Beach, Fla.; son Dr. Bruce (Noga) Ben David of Pittsburgh; sister Mary Katzenstein of St. Louis; and eight grandchildren.
Rabbi Steven Adams officiated at funeral services at Goodman-Bensman Whitefish Bay Funeral Home, Nov. 1. Burial was in Second Home Cemetery.
Memorials to Congregation Emanu-El of Waukesha or Waukesha Memorial Hospital would be appreciated by the family.
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