Joseph Wyeth Fenwick III, a dentist and former health commissioner at the Toledo Health Department, died Aug. 18 in Toledo. He was 93.

His daughter, Leslie Fenwick, said he had been receiving in-home hospice care before he died of kidney failure.

“He was never hospitalized until three weeks before he passed,” she said. “He never took prescription medications. He really practiced what he learned from public health training and dental school. He was very proud of that.”

Geraldine Lindsey, who closely worked with Dr. Fenwick at the health department from 1969 until he retired in 1997, said he was “a real gentleman.”

“He was awesome. He respected everyone,” Mrs. Lindsey said. “He never looked down on anyone. He was exceptionally kind. Everyone loved him.”

Ms. Fenwick remembered her father

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