Dr. Herbert Irving Earnshaw
Dr. Herbert Irving Earnshaw, 97, of Stephens City, VA passed away peacefully on Wednesday, December 23, 2020, at his home.
Dr. Earnshaw was born in 1923 in Washington, DC, son of the late William and Myrtle Earnshaw, and lived his early life in suburban Maryland. He served as a United States Army medic in the Pacific during WWII, and graduated from Georgetown University School of Dentistry in 1950.
Dr. Earnshaw loved adventures. His trips included a 300 mile float on an inflatable raft on a wild ride in Alaska with his son, Bill, rescuing a woman trapped in an icy crevasse on a glacier at the southern tip of Argentina, giving CPR to a woman gored by a wild buffalo in Kenya, shaking hands with Sir Edmund Hillary in the shadow of Mt. Everest in Nepal, riding on the back of an elephant in a jungle in India in a successful search for tigers. With his son, Bill, he climbed Machu Picchu in Peru to as high as tourists were allowed to go. There were other adven