Gabriel Zatlin

Gabriel Zatlin
KENT - Gabriel Zatlin, a longtime member of the Kent community, passed away suddenly on Tuesday.

He was a big reader, an avid gardener, and loved sitting on the porch with his wife, Jane.

He was born in New York City, but grew up in Miami, attended Washington University Medical School and trained in pediatrics. He worked at the CDC in epidemiology. He served in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Communicable Disease Center of the Public Health Service, which took him on a secret mission to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Alaska, an Indian reservation, and Brazil. He was part of a pediatric practice in Atlanta, where his sons Jonathan and Andrew were raised.

?Upon the dissolution of his first marriage he embarked on an international career, working in Indonesia and Africa for several years. Upon his return to the US, he became the Health Services doctor at Brown University, where he met his future wife Lorna. Their daughter is Belle, a social worker in New York City. Following Lorna to New York, he retrained in family medicine, and practiced family medicine in New York until his retirement ten years ago.

Nineteen years ago, he and his current wife Jane got together. They divided their time between Kent and Brooklyn for many years, but have spent time since the Pandemic lockdown, exclusively in Kent.

Jane was looking forward to porch time with Gabriel this spring; their time together was her great joy.

Gabriel will be buried in Kent. A memorial will be held at a later date.

Remembrance and donations should be directed to the Kent Memorial Library, Kent, Connecticut, in his honor. He was a supporter of the library, and a book sale volunteer, too. He could be seen every weekend perusing the offerings at the annual book sale.