Walnut Creek Doctor Remembered As 'A Wonderful Spirit'

WALNUT CREEK, CA — When Walnut Creek resident Ethan Sellers was killed in a fiery crash in Dublin on the Fourth of July, the community lost a man with "a infectious personality; a love for life, and he really cared about the community around him," according to Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center Family Residency Program Director Ted O’Connell.

Sellers was a newly minted doctor, O’Connell told the Times-Herald. Sellers, 29, had just graduated from the residency program on June 30.

"He was a gifted physician and would have been a brilliant palliative care physician," O'Connell said. "The world lost a wonderful spirit; a gifted physician who was just beginning his career."

Both Sellers and his passenger Matthew McEnerney died when Sellers' car smashed into a pole and burst into flames. Emergency responders tried to save the men but it was too late.

The Dr. Ethan Sellers Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established in his memory. Send donations to Kaiser Vallejo, attention: Elizabeth Kleier, 975 Sereno Drive, Vallejo, CA, 94589.

Read more in the Times-Herald.

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