The founder of one of the most prominent eye care groups in Northern California has died at the age of 86.
Dr. Henry Joseph Zeiter, founder of Zeiter Eye Medical Group, Inc., died of congestive heart failure at his Lodi home on Dec. 20 with his wife and daughter at his side.
âHe just loved life,â his son Dr. John Zeiter said. âHe did not want to die. He was a fighter, and he was fighting for the last couple of years.â
Born in Serhel, Lebanon in 1934, Henry Zeiterâs family moved to Caracas, Venezuela when he was 14 and then to Windsor, Ontario, Canada when he was 16, where he graduated from Assumption High School and learned English.