Dr. Ed­ward (Ned) Hins­man Stone­braker, 72, died at home on Au­gust 6, 2022, in Derby.

Ned was born in Hager­stown, Mary­land, on July 20, 1950, to John E. Stone­braker Jr., and Ade­laide Stone­braker.

Ned spent his child­hood grow­ing up near his grand­par­ents, aunts, and un­cles. He at­tended Saint James School in Hager­stown, class of 1968. Dur­ing that time, he par­tic­i­pated in an ex­change pro­gram in Lon­don, Eng­land.

Ned earned his bach­e­lor of arts de­gree at Tufts Uni­ver­sity in Somerville, Mass­a­chu­setts, class of 1972. While at Tufts, he thrived on the aca­d­e­mics and be­came in­ter­ested in the­ater and mu­sic. Af­ter grad­u­at­ing from Tufts, Ned was a Shake­spear­ian ac­tor in sev­eral trav­el­ing com­pa­nies. Ned also cre­ated and headed his own the­ater com­pany in Boston.

Af­ter liv­ing and work­ing in Boston, Ned moved to New York City and at­tended the Stella Adler Stu­dio of Act­ing. Dur­ing that time, he also worked for the in­ter­na­tion­ally known artist and sculp­tor, Frank Stella, con­struct­ing art ex­hi­bi­tion spaces. Along with his full-time

po­si­tion with Frank Stella, Ned worked in a va­ri­ety of po­si­tions dur­ing his stay in New York in­clud­ing car­pen­try and restau­rant man­age­ment.

In the early 1990s, Ned earned an as­so­ci­ate of sci­ence de­gree from Hunter Col­lege and Cayuga Col­lege.  He then moved to Geneva, New York, and earned his Doc­tor of Chi­ro­prac­tic (DC) in 1996 at the New York Chi­ro­prac­tic Col­lege in Seneca Falls (now known as North­east Col­lege of Health Sci­ences).

With his quick mind and love of learn­ing, Ned men­tored many of the younger stu­dents en­rolled in the pro­gram. Ned com­pleted his clin­i­cal stud­ies on Long Is­land, New York. He re­turned to Ho­neoye Falls, New York, to es­tab­lish a prac­tice with a part­ner.

While liv­ing in Geneva af­ter grad­u­a­tion, Ned met his wife, Lauri (Ham­men) Stone­braker. They were mar­ried in 1999 in Wilton, Con­necti­cut, and the new­ly­weds re­lo­cated to Derby to es­tab­lish Ned's chi­ro­prac­tic prac­tice to­gether. Ned served thou­sands of pa­tients in Derby, New­port, and the North­east King­dom as their chi­ro­prac­tor in his Main Street of­fice from the year 2000 un­til his death.

In ad­di­tion to his chi­ro­prac­tic prac­tice, for twelve years Ned taught all the anatomy and phys­i­ol­ogy courses and labs at Lyn­don State Col­lege (now known as North­ern Ver­mont Uni­ver­sity), teach­ing and men­tor­ing many fu­ture nurses and doc­tors. Ned was a nat­ural teacher and had a gift of bring­ing to life com­plex sub­jects and top­ics for his stu­dents' bet­ter un­der­stand­ing.

Ned en­joyed play­ing gui­tar and lis­ten­ing to all types of mu­sic. He was an in­sa­tiable reader and wrote pro­lif­i­cally in his free time. He was in­ter­ested in art, pol­i­tics (al­ways a lively de­bate), his­tory, and gar­den­ing. Ned and Lauri spent more than a decade of week­ends at their camp in Maine on Richard­son Pond en­joy­ing kayak­ing, ca­noe­ing, swim­ming, hik­ing, and na­ture, host­ing many fam­ily and friends there over the years.

Ned is sur­vived by his lov­ing wife of 23 years, Lauri. He is also sur­vived by his older sis­ter, Sally (Stone­braker) Grassi and her hus­band, An­thony Pren­tice Grassi, by his older brother, John Ellsworth Stone­braker; by his niece Lau­rie (Grassi) Red­mond; by his nephews An­thony Pren­tice Grassi Jr., and Matthew Steven Stone­braker; by his great-nieces and   grand-nephews. He also leaves be­hind his fa­ther-in-law, Fran­cis Ham­men and his wife, In­grid; his sis­ter-in-law, Jill de la Sota and her hus­band,

Richard; and his nephew Richard de la Sota Jr.

In ad­di­tion to his par­ents, he was pre­de­ceased by his beloved nephew, John E. Stone­braker III, of whom he spoke fondly and reg­u­larly, and his mother-in-law, Karen Ham­men.

A ser­vice will be held on Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 8, at 11 a.m., at the Mor­gan Church on Route 111 in Mor­gan, with a light lun­cheon fol­low­ing. All are in­vited to at­tend.

"I am a pil­grim and a stranger, pass­ing through this weary land. I've got a home in that Heav­enly city and it's not made by man."