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   Published on: 1/10/2002   Last Visited: 1/10/2002

   John Edward Cassidy
   
   Pediatrician
   
   John Edward Cassidy, 86, a pediatrician who retired in 1988 from private practice in Bethesda, died of cancer Jan. 4 at a hospital in Greensboro, N.C., where he had gone for rehabilitation. He moved from Bethesda to the home of his son in Martinsville, Va., three months ago.
   
   Dr. Cassidy was chief of pediatrics at Suburban Hospital from 1959 until 1967 and chief of the hospital staff until 1970. He also served on the senior advisory staff of Children's Hospital and was a pediatrician for the former Baptist Home for Children in Bethesda.
   
   Dr. Cassidy was born in Bridgeport, Conn. He was a graduate of Georgetown University and its medical school and interned at Garfield Hospital. He did his residency at Children's Hospital. He went into private practice in 1945.
   
   He was a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the American Medical Association, the American Diabetes Association and the Montgomery and Maryland medical societies. He was a founding member of St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Church in Bethesda.
   
   His first wife, Louise Bumpass Cassidy, died in 1987, after 47 years of marriage.
   
   Survivors include his wife, Eva Pescarmona Cassidy of Bethesda; three children from his first marriage, Dr. Robert "Butch" Cassidy of Martinsville, Dr. Michael Cassidy of Reston and Mary Cassidy of Hobe Sound, Fla.; four stepchildren; a brother; a sister; 27 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
   
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