Sheryl Alexis Jacobson, DMD MS

PROVIDENCE - Dr. Sheryl Alexis Jacobson died on Sept. 4.

As one of the first women to graduate from the Tufts Dental School in its three year program, she was a female pioneer in the Oral Surgery Residency Program at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Fla. She ran a pediatric dental clinic in Chelsea, Mass. Latr, she became a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She worked for the Colgate-Palmolive Company.

She continued her professional growth in the Lending Officer Professional Development Program with the Bank of Boston.

She is survived by her husband Fredric C. Friedman, Ed. D., of Providence, R.I.; her father, Lt. Col. Ralph Jacobson (USAF, Retired) of Newton, Mass.; her brother, Keith E. Jacobson, of Newton and Swansea, Mass.

Contributions may be made to “Best Friends,” a no?kill animal shelter, 5001 Angel Canyon Road, Kanab, Utah 84741.