Marshall Simms Redding, MD
October 14, 1934 — January 20, 2025
NCMS Past President Marshall Simms Redding, MD, died Monday, January 20. He was 90 years old.
Dr. Marshall Simms Redding, born October 14, 1934, passed away age 90 on Monday, January 20, 2025, at Cone Health Wesley Long Hospital after a brief illness. A native of Guilford County, he was the son of the late Herbert Monroe Redding and Ernestine Fulgham Redding, and the youngest of their 7 children.
He graduated from McLeansville High School in 1953 and then attended Duke University from 1954 – 1958 with a major in Chemistry. While at Duke, he met Bobbie Newman who was studying at UNC Chapel Hill, and they married on June 2, 1957. In April 1958, he joined the Navy Aviation Cadet Program in Pensacola, Florida, and in December 1959 was assigned to Fleet Air Wing 14 at San Diego, California, supporting the mission to guard the Southern Sector and West Coast. By 1962 he was a Navy Lieutenant with two young children when he was accepted at Duke University Medical School. He graduated in 1966. He completed his internship at the US Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia, and a residency in Ophthalmology at the US Naval Hospital in Philadelphia and at Wills Eye Hospital.
Dr. Redding joined the NCMS in 1971.
The North Carolina Medical Society extends its deepest condolences.
Read Dr. Redding’s full obituary here.