Jay Morris Coblentz, M.D., a neurologist and longtime resident of Rye, died on Dec. 3, 2024, after a brief illness. He was 81 years old.
Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Dr. Coblentz attended Haverford College, graduating in 1964, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to earn his medical degree in 1968 at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was admitted into Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. It was there that he met his late wife, Susan Greenawalt Coblentz, while both were medical students at Penn. They married in Philadelphia in July 1967.
He continued his training at Metropolitan Hospital in New York and completed his neurology residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. From 1972 to 1974, he served as Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy, stationed at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He also contributed to multiple published papers resulting from his research work on dementia and headaches.
After leaving the Navy, Dr. Coblentz and his young family moved to Rye. For more than 40 years, he devoted himself to serving his patients as a neurologist in private practice, with offices in Mamaroneck and the Bronx, and later Rye. During this time, he also taught as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Albert Einstein Medical School and served on the peer review committee of the Westchester County Medical Society.
Dr. Coblentz is survived by his son, Jonathan; daughter, Julia and her husband David; and his grandson, Caleb Turchi. His wife, Dr. Susan G. Coblentz, predeceased him in 2002.
