MARTIN YARVIS

1931 - 2022

YARVIS--Martin Robert, MD, age 91, of Palm City, Florida, died on August 14, 2022, surrounded by his family. Born in 1931, he came from a long line of physicians on both his mother's and his father's side. The son of Dr. Jacob Yarvis and Sylvia Yarvis (nee Robbinovitz), he grew up playing stick ball and volleyball at P.S. 244 in Brooklyn but felt a calling to the medical profession from working in his father's office as a young boy. He attended Tilden High School, Cheshire Academy, and Dartmouth College, graduating from Hobart College and SUNY Downstate's College of Medicine. Marty was a skilled "old school" physician who instituted programs in quality control and medical ethics at Long Beach Hospital on Long Island, where he was on the medical staff and served as President of the Board and acting Chief of Medicine in the years leading up to his retirement. One of the first physicians to respond to the AIDS crisis, he was able to comfort patients with his gentle, empathic manner and his mischievous sense of humor. An accomplished sportsman with a love of sailing and golfing, he enjoyed traveling to exotic places with his beloved wife of 64 years, Louise Yarvis (nee Dunn), who survives him. He is also survived by his brother Stephen Yarvis and sister-in-law Anne Yarvis, his adoring daughters, Lisa Sobelsohn, Lori Yarvis, and Jacqueline Schechter, and sons-in-law Richard Sobelsohn, Ty Burr, and Jeffrey Schechter. His grandchildren Rachel, Robert and Andrew Sobelsohn, Eliza and Natalie Burr, and Samantha, Jonathan and Erin Schechter, were the source of great pride. Marty was cherished by his family and loved by his patients, colleagues, golfing buddies, and all who were privileged to know him. Family services have been held.