Suzanne Eva Hageman

Mrs. Suzanne Hageman of Toledo, OH passed away Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at Hospice of Northwest Ohio. She was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 5, 1936 to Dr. and Mrs. Ferenc Magda Tausik Volgyesi. She attended the Evangelical Lutheran Elementary and Secondary School of Deak ter from 1942-1952. She graduated from the Veres Palne State Secondary High School in 1954. Suzanne entered Szeged Hungary Medical School in the fall of 1954. She later continued her medical education at the Pazmany Peter Scientific University Medical School in Budapest until the October, 1956 student uprising against the Communist Hungarian Government. During the uprising she cared for the wounded soldiers and civilians at the Vass Utca Hospital in Budapest. After the Hungarian/Soviet Army defeated the student revolt, Suzanne and her brother, Andrew had to leave Hungary. She obtained a laboratory assistant degree at the University of Louvain, Belgium School of Medicine. She emigrated to the USA in August, 1959 to occupy a surgical laboratory assistant position at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Suzanne took a laboratory internship at the Yale School of Medicine and graduated in 1962 with a BS in Medical Technology from the Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT. She met her future husband, John H. Hageman at the Yale School of Medicine where he was a medical student. They were married on June 2, 1962 at the Dwight Memorial Chapel on the Yale University Campus by the Rev. William Sloane, chaplain. Suzanne worked in the Clinical Microscopy laboratory at Yale until their first child was born. They were blessed with four daughters: Margaret, Martha, Diane, and Kimberly. The family moved to Detroit, MI in July, 1967. Mrs. Hageman cared for her family with love and devotion while she also worked full or part time at several hospitals in Michigan. The family moved to Toledo in 1985. Mrs. Hageman completed a BSN-RN training in 1990 at the University of Toledo Medical College of Ohio and worked in several Toledo area nursing homes as an RN until 2001. Mrs. Hagemans lifes focus has always been her education, her career, and her family. She is survived by her daughters, Margaret Ed Petrovich, Martha Don Kirk Hageman, Diane Rick Wickliff and Kim Dave Felcan Hageman; eight grandchildren; sister, Vera Ferenczi ; sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Volgyesi, Diane Volgyesi, Nancy Ullom and brother-in-law, Jim Ullom; nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews and cousins. Visitation will be held on Monday, June 9, from 12 noon until 2:00 PM at Epworth United Methodist Church, 3077 Valleyview Dr., with funeral services starting at 2:00 PM. Interment will be at the Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery of Claverack, New York. Memorial contributions may be made to Myelodysplasia International Foundation, P.O. Box 310, Churchton, MD 20733. Arrangements by the Walker Funeral Home 419-841-2422.