- Date Of Birth: July 17, 1923
- Date Of Death: June 17, 2016
- State: Maryland
Dr. Joseph Francis “Doc” Baldacchino, longtime resident of Emmitsburg, MD, died on Friday, June 17, 2016, at the Gettysburg Hospital. He died exactly one month before his 93rd birthday. Born July 17, 1923, in Revloc, PA, he was the son of the late Joseph Edward and Dina Guarneri Baldacchino.
Together with his wife, Sarah McIntyre Baldacchino, who is a registered nurse, Doc opened a dental practice in Emmitsburg in 1952 that would continue until his retirement in 1985. For several years in the 1970s and 1980s Doc also performed dentistry for the Daughters of Charity at St. Joseph’s Provincial House.
Soon after his retirement, Doc underwent quintuple heart by-pass surgery at the Washington Hospital Center. His cardiologists at the time urged him to take up walking as part of a regular exercise regimen, and little did they know what they had started. From that time forth until the very week of his death, Doc became a familiar face on the streets of Emmitsburg, where his biggest source of enjoyment was exchanging greetings with the legions of kindly townspeople he encountered on his daily rounds.
In addition to his wife of 69 years, Sarah, Doc is survived by a brother, Anthony Baldacchino of Carrolltown, PA; three sons, Joseph and wife, Nell, of Bowie, MD; Philip and wife, Carol, of Tampa, FL; and Vincent and wife, Pam, of Great Mills, MD; nine grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by brothers James Baldacchino and Philip Baldacchino and sister Josephine Baldacchino Mezzelo, all of Carrolltown, PA.
