A good Man that we all loved his died. Dr. Sullivan was an amazing person and Dr. He helped my mom take care of David all during his illness making house calls when ever he was in the neighborhood. He and Mary Lou came to my parents home and signed the death certificate so Davids body to go right to the funeral home. He sat and talked to them for hours until someone could come get the body. He never just asked you how you were feeling he would take your pulse and check your glands as he asked. I can remember visiting my parents and having a sick child he always had time to look at them and call in a prescription. Never asking for compensation. I can remember when he got baptized and thinking it was strange because I thought he was a member he was more valiant than most members. I will miss him.

Here is his obituary from the Santa Rosa paper.


"He was the most caring guy you could imagine," said his son, Daniel Sullivan of Santa Rosa. "He loved his patients like his family. He was an old-fashioned doctor who made house calls, and he delivered hundreds of babies."Dr. Bill Rubach, a close friend, called Sullivan "the most caring physician I have ever known. He was the reason my son became a doctor."Sullivan was born and raised in Watertown, N.Y., where he excelled in tennis, basketball and football.He attended the University of Notre Dame before transferring to the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University in Chicago, where he graduated in 1962.After a residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, he was drafted into the Navy and was a doctor aboard a destroyer off the coast of Vietnam and also stationed at a Naval hospital in Yokosuka, Japan.He came to Santa Rosa in 1966, where he began his family practice, retiring two weeks ago.He was a member of and active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.He also was a member of the Sonoma County and American medical associations but had stopped paying his dues several years ago "because he was not happy with the state of medicine in California," said his son Daniel. "That was his protest."Sullivan, who had undergone bypass surgery 11 years ago, had back surgery on Thursday and died Saturday from complications, Daniel said.He also is survived by his wife of 45 years, Mary Lou Sullivan of Santa Rosa; a daughter, Sharron Braun of Spokane, Wash.; sons Tom Sullivan of Provo, Utah and Scott Sullivan of Santa Rosa and 16 grandchildren.Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Peterson Lane in Santa Rosa. Viewing will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at Santa Rosa Mortuary Eggen and Lance Chapel.Memorial donations may be made to LDS Humanitarian Services, P.O. Box 27188, Provo, Utah 84602.