Dr. Jaime K. (Jimmy) Javier died Dec. 26. He was 83.

He was born on May 29, 1938 in the Philippines and raised in the Quezon province’s town of Candelaria. After earning his medical degree from the University of the Philippines, he came to the United States for a residency at St. Raphael Hospital in New Haven, Conn. There he met Donna Marie Deren, a nurse. They married on Sept. 18, 1965. Jaime and Donna moved to New Rochelle, N.Y., where he set up a primary care practice in internal medicine and was an attending staff physician at New Rochelle Hospital Medical Center.

After residing in New Rochelle for more than 30 years, Jaime and Donna moved to Somers, N.Y. in 2005. They settled in their longtime home on Martha’s Vineyard in 2015.

He enjoyed sports of all kinds and was an avid marathon runner, tennis and table tennis player. He was humble, honest and good natured. His smile was always the biggest and his laughter contagious. His presence will stay with us always.

In addition to his wife of 56 years, he is survived by his sister Susing Camus; daughter Monica Javier Bergman and her husband Eric; son Brandon Deren Javier and his wife Bree; granddaughters Pryia, Melody and Pheobe; and a large extended family including many nieces and nephews to whom he was a great uncle and was fondly known as Uncle Jimmy.

Visitation will be held on Monday, Jan. 3 from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Chapman Funerals & Cremation in Oak Bluffs, followed by a funeral mass at 11 a.m. at St. Augustine’s Church in Vineyard Haven, and interment at the West Tisbury Cemetery on State Road.

For online guestbook and more information please visit chapmanfuneral.com.